Very happy with the Dagger Axis 10.5, which is often described as a recreation boat, which seems a bit disingenuous, but modify the cockpit, throw a spray skirt on (Palm Roanoke size R6 fits), combine with a decent set of paddles like Werner carbons, and you have a boat the performs as a crossover should with complete versitalty. Anyway took it out in good conditions and it performs very well, maneuverable with both skeg in the down and up positions and obviously tracks very straight with the skeg down. I also have a bow flotation bag on order to fill out the bow space, which is a shame Dagger did not fit a dry bulkhead upfront in case of a capsized. After reading reviews I modified the cockpit by dropping in Contour Lite hip pads and thigh braces to tie me into the boat a bit more, they all work great as performance accessories. Just had the maiden paddle in my new Dagger Axis E10.5 on the Thames and adjoining Surrey river network. I could go to WalMart or Dicks sporting goods and buy a SunDolphin kayak that has better quality standards than Dagger. Their build and quality standards are the best I've seen. If you want a top notch kayak go with LiquidLogic. I don't understand how those boats even got out of the factory like that? Didn't anyone look at them before they left?Īfter this experience, I'll never buy another Dagger product EVER. With Dagger, you're "scraping the bottom of the barrel" when it comes to quality standards. It's obvious that Dagger has no quality standards when it comes to their products. NOOOOOOO, NOT BUILDER #12 AGAIN!! NOOOOOO! The new boat REI got from their warehouse had the exact same problem.but worse!!! Arrrrrgh! They bring the new kayak out and I look at the build card.
At this point, I've paid for TWO Dagger kayaks until I return the first one.Ī week later I'm at REI again to do the exchange. So I have them get another Axis 10.5 from their warehouse and have it shipped to the store. So, the next day I call REI back and explain what happened. On the build card that comes with the kayak said "Builder #12" was responsible for building this boat. I was beyond livid at this point! I called the factory and sent them pictures of it, and their only answer was to send me more glue? WTF? There was a one inch gap across the bottom that I could slip my fingers in up to the second knuckle. The foam bulkhead wasn't even in the space vertically. Then huge globs of glue was smeared onto and around the new foam? Huh? It was a total mess inside the dry hatch with glue smeared everywhere and left to dry.
Then you could tell it was removed, and had a larger bulkhead forced into the space in front of the original one. You could easily see the bulkhead behind the seat was hastily "thrown in" and had huge globs of glue smeared around it.
was no where up to the assembly standards I'm used to seeing when purchasing a brand new kayak. The kayak arrived, and I was super excited to get it.Īfter getting it home, I decided to have a real good look at my newest purchase. I ordered a Dagger Axis 10.5 from my local REI store.
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