Quiver Killer

Of course, as what we ran became harder and more demanding, so boats specialized for those rivers and they lost their playfullness. As freestyle became more specialized, so the boats developed in a way that simply makes them rubbish as river runners.

While playboating most are generally not doing all the most modern tricks that require a 6' kayak. They're happy to carve and spin and blunt on a wave, drop into a hole and throw some cartwheels, splitwheels and maybe a Tricky Woo.

Likewise, when river running, many are not running stuff where a specialized creeker is needed. Sure, if there are those runs you do, you definitely want the added safety and ease of something like the SuperSkipRR. Half slices exist and were meant to bridge the gap between a creeker and a playboat, and they're great at river running while offering some playfullness. But you can't throw them down in a hole or on a wave like the Quiver Killer.

The bow is small enough to be able to link ends in a medium sized hole, and it'll surf like a demon and do all those "old school" tricks, all on a harder class 4 run. Of course there will always be those that will take this down even harder stuff, but I'm talking about us mortals.

It has enough speed to move about the river, but is short enough for old school tricks. Low enough rocker to be fast and sporty on a wave, but still enough rocker to be a relatively dry ride. Super squirty tail so you can throw it around, slicy enough bow to be able to chop chop holes, but just enough bow volume and crown to be able to run some challenging stuff without the nose loading up.

If you could only own one kayak, and were willing to give up the two extreme ends of performance (high end freestyle, and hard core creeking), so that you could do everything from "old school freestyle" to hardish river running and light creeks, what would it look like? It would look like the Quiver Killer.