The edge placement and chimes also allow you to carve like crazy, which makes for catching eddies at a fast rate of speed and stopping on a dime extremely satisfying. Stability is still very good and it has a little extra width at the ends to help with that. On top of the speed, the narrower hull combined with the extra length and modern chimes gives you an excellent overall platform. You have to experience it to understand but once you feel the Remix pick up momentum, fly through a rapid and then glide out, it will change you. As an owner of a Liquid Logic Stinger XP, I've become used to some serious speed from my kayak but I didn't expect it out of one that isn't a "long boat." The Remix surprised me though with the same kinda feeling of speed although obviously it's not quite as fast as the Stinger. The added length and sporty hull combine to give you something some newer yaks have been missing. Basically they made it a bit narrower than a lot of modern kayaks and added some length. As most kayaks have become shorter and shorter over the years, Liquid Logic felt like something was missing from the experience and so have enstilled a little "old-school" into their boat design. It really doesn't look that long in person with the sporty lines, 13" bow rocker and 10" rocker in the stern. You may be thinking, wow that is long! That was my inital reaction when seeing the length on paper especially since it is 7 inches longer than say a Dagger Mamba 8.1. The Remix 69 comes in at 8'8" long and weighs around 44 lbs. It was a great decision and I would only trade up to the 79 if I was planning on doing more overnights, etc. After consulting with Liquid Logic, I decided to rock the 69.
Like usual with me though, I'm kinda on the cusp between medium and large at 180 lbs and 6'1". My wife has the 59 version, which works great for her petite 110 lbs and 5'1 height. The numbers correspond to the amount of volume each boat has. Anyway, I finally decided to see what all the fuss is about and ordered myself a brand new lime green Remix 69.įor those of you that don't know, the Remix comes in 3 different sizes, 59, 69 and 79. I even had bought one for my wife a year ago or so, which she loves, but I can't fit in it. Not sure how that happened given it's extreme popularity but it is what it is. So somehow, despite Liquid Logic coming out with the Remix series way back around 2009, I had never actually boated in one. we spend most of our time on rivers and creeks (not super steep creeks) and a river runner makes a lot of since to have in the quiver. After a few years though, I started thinking. When I first started whitewater kayaking, I ended up going with a creek boat and playboat as my first boat purchases.
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