They're meant for inland water, calm water. Maybe moving water but not a strong current. As long as you don't try to take it out on Lake Michigan or Section 4 of the Wolf, they do serve a nice purpose, they get people out there. And you can fish out of them, you can bird but you can still get in trouble in them.

Bill Merrick

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If you learn a sweep stroke in a whitewater kayak, that sweep stroke's going to do the same thing in a sea kayak.

— Bill Merrick

We make absolutely certain you know the wet exit. We start out classes doing the wet exit and end classes doing the wet exit. With some people, it takes time but we work with them until they're completely comfortable flipping over and coming out of the kayak. It's a piece of cake, it really is.

— Bill Merrick

Too many people arm paddle, and they really need to learn to use their torso, to use their whole body, because that's where you get the power, that's where you get the endurance that you need to do a long trip.

— Bill Merrick

The first class, the first day, the first thing you learn to do is the wet exit. We teach that until you're blue in the face.

— Bill Merrick

I was there about an hour after the blast and the water was looking good. There were no violations.