Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/ Here's your outdoor tip on touring or sea kayaks. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate kayak models. Kayaks are becoming more and more specialized to meet the needs of paddlers. Sea kayaks are normally considered a subset of touring kayaks, but for the purpose of our discussion I’ll consider them both together—calling them touring kayaks. The sea kayak is just usually a longer version of the touring kayak. The easiest way to define a touring kayak is that it is longer and narrower than recreational kayaks making it better for rough and open water. Touring kayaks were developed for the sport of paddling on open water in lakes or the ocean. They have a covered deck and can use a skirt that goes around the paddlers sealing cockpit from spray and the threat of filling with water. They are usually over 15 feet long and 26 inches or less wide. Their keel is more pronounced giving them better tracki
