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Best Spydie for kayaking and canoeing...

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I have a couple of Caribbeans that are both serrated. Does anyone use anything smaller (i. e. Native salt), for general purpose canoeing. Freshwater only.
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I carry my SE Pacific Salt when I kayak.
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For kayaking, I will usually just carry a SE Salt 1 clipped in waist band.

I actually spoke to someone at Spyderco last time I was there who mentioned keeping a Snap-It Salt hung onto the front of his PFD while kayaking. Sounded like a good idea to me.

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I keep an Atlantic salt se on my pfd and often a Salt 2 se in my pocket. I never use the Atlantic, it's there for emergencies only.

Just bought a Native Salt PE and it will probably replace or compliment the Salt 2.
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Enuff sheep's foot in h1
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Enuff Salt gets my vote, too.
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I would most definitely want a nitrogen based blade steel like something out of the H-1 Salt Series. A TUSK model would make sense for that type of activity. And it has a nitrogen based blade steel LC200N.
I'm still holding out hope for a Salt Series Dyad, double bladed model.
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I always carry a G-2 Harpy clipped to my vest.
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Canoeing and kayaking in fresh water (all I do) I carry a native salt PE and usually a dragonfly salt PE. Hoping to add a SE salt at some point, too.
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Salt water paddle board for me. Mine’s inflatable and after patching that hole, decided inflatables and knives don’t mix. :D
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I never really did white water kayaking, just "sea"-kayaking on lakes.
Honestly, like in any other fresh- (as opposed to salt-) water scenarios, I never had rust problems on VG10 blades whatsoever. So I just carried an Endura 4 or my CE Delica. Now that I have an SE Endela, I guess that will become my kayaking knife.
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-Mountains/outdoors: Pac.Salt 1 SE (H1), Salt 2 SE (LC200N), and also Wayne Goddard PE (4V)
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SF Native wrote:
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Mine’s inflatable
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Bloke wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:20 pm
SF Native wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:56 pm
Mine’s inflatable
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He must carry IWB.

SC_PATRIOT. In freshwater you could carry just about what ever you want.
As for Natives, I’ve carried a Native LW on the water, the salt version would be perfect
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ARK, Snapit, Dragonfly Salt hawkbill.
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Bloke wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 10:20 pm
SF Native wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 9:56 pm
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Yup, just like that. But it says jimmy Lewis on the side and is maybe a little longer. And faster.
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if i was going to keep a knife on a pfd for emergencies, it would probably be the assist salt or the sheepsfoot enuff. then i’d also have something else in my waistband... probably a pe native salt since my emergency knife is already a se sheepsfoot.
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Haven't used them this way yet but I plan on clipping a Spyderhawk to pfd and my Tusk at my waist in the future
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H1 salt serrated DFLY and a native 5 salt pe is what I use..
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Mushroom wrote:
Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:40 pm
For kayaking, I will usually just carry a SE Salt 1 clipped in waist band.

I actually spoke to someone at Spyderco last time I was there who mentioned keeping a Snap-It Salt hung onto the front of his PFD while kayaking. Sounded like a good idea to me.

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Could anyone please explain to me what "pfd" stands for?
Top three going by pocket-time (update March 24):
- EDC: Endura thin red line ffg combo edge (VG10); Wayne Goddard PE (4V), Endela SE (VG10)
-Mountains/outdoors: Pac.Salt 1 SE (H1), Salt 2 SE (LC200N), and also Wayne Goddard PE (4V)
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Personal Floatation Device? That’s what I deduced
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