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Mk 8 Tasman and Pacific Sea Kayaks

We reconfigured the decks on the latest Tasman and Pacific!

Fitted with water resistant zipping, the decks can be opened back to allow easy access for your expedition gear.

When the deck is closed and you are installed with the Day Two multi-sport sprayskirt, you have complete enclosure and can even eskimo roll for the ultimate in self recovery at sea.

We've also added the Pacific Action kayak sail as an accessory. Erected or furled in seconds, you can run before or reach across the wind to gain valuable kilometres without effort.

We have started to run out of space in the kayak trolley-travel bag though...

Busiest Season!!

The 2007/2008 season has been the busiest yet. Australian, American, and Japanese sales have all been well up, and the NZ private inflatable boater's market has lifted off at last. We at Incept, keen inflatables people since the early 1980's, have been trying to get the message out for years that inflatables offer private individuals a wonderful and reliable way of getting into unique wilderness rivers, offering portability, robustness, convenience, and fun.

The W43SX 14' Whitewater Self Bailing expedition raft has been chosen as the standard race boat for the 2008 IRF Australasian Rafting Championship in the Nagara River, Japan and we are currently building 20 for the end of April.

Production orders are still 2 months out although we can usually fit in small jobs OK.

Sales Director Retires
 

Cliff Kingston, Incept's Sales Director since 1992, retired from active duties at the staff Christmas Party today. Cliff has been travelling the 4 hours from his Tauranga home to Taihape every week and is keen for a change from that stretch of road. He is active in promoting cycling and cycle events in the Waikato - and now in the Canterbury back country. We will miss Cliff who has been a firm friend as well as business associate.

Alastair and John Booth, remaining directors, will be sharing sales duties. Leisha Brown, our young and cheerful office assistant, will look after your simpler requirements. Actually, Leisha is pretty reliable so if you want something extra well followed up just get her on your case.

Production Manager Resigns

Philip Booth, Incept's production chief and one of Incept's director/owners, resigned last week. He plans to take his family to the far North and establish there in other fields. Philip has been production manager since 2000, just before Incept shifted factory into it's present larger building. In his time here, Philip has worked to reduce disruptions and improve work flow, increase production, improve quality, has worked through many of the compliance issues in a changing employment scene, and installed standards and procedures which are part of Incept's quality system.

Philip will be missed by all and we wish him and his family well in whatever they choose. Thank you for your efforts of the past 7 years and beyond!

Waterstrider Fly-fishing Kick Boat float trip on the Rangitikei

See the story by Bill Grice about his 4-day float down a wilderness section of NZ's Rangitikei River. The Rangitikei has to be the North Island's crown jewel, seemingly a well kept secret. Bill sent us photos of his trip - none of himself - and gives us an interesting read. Click here.

Incept Offers Inflatable-Keel Yacht Tenders

Over the years, Incept has built some 2,000 marine boats and boat sponsons per year for other manufacturers and exporters. One of these customers has faded away leaving us with componentry for inflatable keel tenders and we have used between-season quiet spells to build a production of 87 IK Tenders to use up all of our major component items. Inflatable keel boats have an internal rigid deck to hold down an inflated keel which tensions the boat bottom into a classic V shape. This shape gives much superior performance over a flat bottom and it is great fun to get up on the plane and fly.