Nortik Navigator

Nortik Navigator

Name: Nortik Navigator Red-Black -
Brand: Nortik
SKU: 54585-300149
Price: 2994.95 GBP
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (16 reviews)

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Product Description

Nortik Navigator – Innovative, Lightweight, and Durable Folding Sea Kayak

The Nortik Navigator is a cutting-edge folding sea kayak that has redefined portable watercraft. Combining stability, speed, and comfort in a lightweight design, it is ideal for both beginners and experienced paddlers seeking reliable performance for touring, expeditions, or weekend adventures.

Key Features and Benefits

Outstanding On-Water Performance: Despite its narrow 58 cm beam, the Navigator delivers impressive stability and precise tracking even in rough conditions. It paddles efficiently and smoothly with minimal effort, making it ideal for long-distance trips across lakes, rivers, and coastal waters.

Quick and Easy Assembly: With only 17 components, the Nortik Navigator is designed for rapid setup. Its bionic frame structure uses the natural tension of the ribs, eliminating the need for complex closures. Assembly is straightforward and tool-free, perfect for travelers and outdoor enthusiasts.

Durable and Weather-Resistant Materials: The high-quality PVC/PU skin offers excellent UV protection and abrasion resistance, even in low temperatures. Integrated air tubes keep the outer skin distanced from the frame, reducing the risk of wear, punctures, or impact damage.

Exceptional Stability: Thanks to its innovative frame construction, the Navigator provides excellent initial and secondary stability. The hard chine along the hull ensures balance in calm waters, while the rounded chines on the sides enhance stability in choppy conditions, making it suitable for paddlers of all skill levels.

Lightweight and Portable: Weighing only 22 kg and packing down to 115 x 40 x 20 cm, the Navigator fits into a single backpack. It's an excellent solution for adventurers who need a compact kayak without sacrificing performance.

Premium Construction and Design: Crafted from high-grade white ash wood and birch marine plywood, the frame offers strength and flexibility. The integrated air chambers enhance durability and buoyancy, while the combination of hard chine and smooth round chines ensures superior safety and maneuverability on the water.

Included in Delivery

Carrying backpack, Two storage hatches, Air-cushioned comfort seat, Pre-installed keel strip, Reinforcement strips, D-rings on the deck, Thigh braces, Deck rigging with perimeter safety line, Repair kit.

Nortik says about the Navigator

The Nortik navigator is a kayak with an innovative wooden frame that has set new standards in this segment. In contrast to most of the other common wooden frame kayaks, the navigator can be stored in just one pack rucksack, weighs only 22 kg.

It was already clear during the construction of the lightweight single-seater with a wooden frame, made of white ash and birch plywood, that it would be a kayak for the ambitious everyday paddler. It should be fast, stiff and yet stable. So that not only professional paddlers, but also beginners can feel comfortable in it. Nortik designed a shape of ribs that is normally reserved for rigid kayaks : a V-shape that slightly rounds up. he V-shape allows high primary stability whereas the rounded shape ensures an excellent secondary stability as well. This particular design is due to the placing of air tubes on both sides. They “embrace” the construction and gives the hull its rounded shape.

A second functional effect of this construction shape: only the keel applies directly pressure on the skin. And this part of the skin is especially reinforced and protected against abrasion by a very strong keel strip. All other parts of the skin are being kept at distance from the frame thanks for the air tubes. Hence the buffer effect: on those parts the skin cannot be easily damaged - unlike with the traditional constructions - because it can always yield a little. For the skin material we chose a mix of the long proven PVC-Polyurethane. PU remains quite flexible by low temperatures (better than PVC) and the UV-resistant material is more abrasion-proof than full PVC.

Reducing the packing size to an only bag required sophisticated techniques for the assembly mechanism. And solution consisted in making a (patented) hinge that allows the gunwales to slide into each other when the boat is being folded. Fitting the gunwales that way, we could save about 15 cm of the whole packing size. The weight has been also optimized based on bionic features and pre-defined load input, to be clear: nature has been used as a model in many aspects.

With this special mechanism we don’t have to use the usual but quite vulnerable snaplocks. The inherent tension of the cross ribs makes the mechanism safe. That type of construction is very solid and quick to assemble/disassemble. All hinges are made of anti-corrosion stainless steel.

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