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                          Oru Kayak with a motor!
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      
Oru Kayak + Current Drives
Among the many things we do as a company–source, manufacture, market, fulfill, and share our love of kayaking–one of th...
                   
 
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                          Opening Day
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      It's spring, and this week in San Francisco has felt more like summer- a real summer, not our foggy San Francisco Julys. Perfect timing for the Gia...
                   
 
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                          Failure Testing
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      We love making things- but occasionally, we admit, it's fun to break things also. Lately, we've been having some fun seeing exactly how much abuse ...
                   
 
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                          16 Feet of Fun - Oru Kayak
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      It's taken us a full year to get Oru Kayak off the ground, and produce our 12 foot model. It's a product we're proud of. But we're starting to work...
                   
 
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                          Urban Kayaking in Oakland
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      
Oru Kayak is based in San Francisco, but I've lived most of the past ten years across the bay in Oakland. It's where I first started to kayak seri...
                   
 
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                          The Origins
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      It’s been an intense, exhilarating year since we founded Oru Kayak Inc. But the story goes back much further than that.
 
I grew up in the woods of...
                   
 
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                          Field Testing
                  
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                
               
                  
                      Before we send Oru Kayaks out into the world, we're putting the new model through an intense battery of tests. Roberto, our resident kayaking exper...
                   
 
 
    
    
      
    
  
   
 
        
        
      
      
      
         
      
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