Enjoy your summer adventures with this excellent all round sit on top kayak. Explore lakes, rivers, canals and coastal waters on a high quality, stable kayak which will look after complete novices. Drawing on their experience and passion for the ocean Tootega have developed a sit on top kayak that excels in the surf, whilst still retaining great characteristics for those flat day paddles.
The versatile Pulse is also one of the most stable boats in our range, making it perfect to try a spot of fishing from, or for a leisurely paddle down your local river. Taking advantage of cutting edge production and clever design, Tootega have made the Pulse both highly durable and lightweight. Combined this with their well balanced carry handles and you’ll have no problem carrying the Pulse down the beach or lifting it onto your car roof rack. This is a high quality, well made British product using the strongest and lightest plastic available. This is no cheap import!
By carefully optimising our mould tools, our production cycles, our materials and our cooling process we have been able to shave nearly 20% from the weights of our standard, hugely versatile Pulse 85.
How stable is the Tootega Pulse 85?
The Tootega Pulse 85 uses Tootega's most stable type of hull! Tootega have carefully designed their double concaved hull to provide leading amounts of initial and secondary stability, boosting confidence from your very first trip. The keel and channeling have been designed to aid tracking during flat water paddling, but to break free whilst planing in the surf, ensuring a lively and manoeuvrable feel. The wide point of the plan shape and low point of the rocker are close to the paddlers hips, giving a responsive, balanced, and natural feel to the kayak. Additional volume at the rail boosts stability yet further, whilst improving handling in rough water.
Tootega Pulse 85 Kayak Features:
- Designed & Manufactured in the UK
- Paddle Park
- 6" Hatch & Drinks Bottle
- D-Ring Features
- Scupper rescue holes
- Bow, stern & centre carry handles
- Stainless steel fittings
- Ergonomic central console
- Planing 'C' hull with built in keel
- Rear storage area
- Lightweight construction savign 4kg off the regular Pulse 85
Optional Extras:
- Tootega Deluxe Padded Backrest
- Tootega 1 piece or 2 piece paddle
- Scupper Bungs
The Tootega Difference
Tootega have always strived to do things differently, and they’re proud of it! From concept sketch to CAD design, mould tool engineering to product manufacture they do everything in-house here in Norfolk, United Kingdom. They do this because they care passionately about their products. Every kayak is carefully made and outfitted by hand, thoroughly checked at every stage of production, and extensively quality controlled by trusted staff prior to dispatch.
Tootega Use Custom Inserts
Moulded inserts offer many benefits over drilling through the hull, and most good quality kayaks now use these corrosion resistant brass inserts to attach key components to their kayaks. For load bearing points such as handles or D-ring anchor points however, standard inserts can find their limitations in terms of strength.
Quality Fittings
All of Tootega’s metal components are stainless steel for maximum strength and corrosion resistance. Metal rings are also welded to ensure maximum strength. All of Tootega’s load bearing plastic components are made of glass reinforced nylon, and are either from their own tooling or sourced from reliable manufacturers, They also undertake spot destruction tests to ensure their integrity.
Industry Leading Powder
Tootega are constantly researching and trialing new plastic formulas and production technologies to ensure they are using only the best possible materials. Their high density compounded polyethylene offers the best possible blend of stiffness, impact resistance, and UV stability they can find. This allows them to produce lighter boats, that perform better, and last longer.
Engineered Strength
Using the best possible plastic is only the first part of the story, making the most of that plastic’s properties comes next. Simple shapes can have a huge impact on the end product. Some can act to help ‘trap’ plastic in certain areas of the kayak, building up thickness where needed. Some can add corrugation to a shape, aiding stiffness in high load areas. Finally some can act to isolate movement which can be useful if you want to put a sensitive feature in a high load area.
A great example of all these benefits is the central hatch detailing on the Pulse series. The gully around the hatch was not only designed to drain away water, by optimizing its shape and depth we have also used it to trap plastic and increase material thickness through the high wear seating area. In addition to increasing thickness it also maximizes stiffness by creating corrugation. Finally the channel serves to minimize the transfer of flex within the seating area to the hatch lid itself, helping to minimize leakage through the hatch caused by twisting of the lid in it’s housing.
When finalizing a design Tootega carefully optimise these small details, adding stiffness and reducing weight wherever possible. As long as it doesn’t effect the boats paddling characteristics, their designers are free to explore changing it. They call this process, engineered strength.
2 Year Warranty
Tootega are passionate about what they do. As devoted paddlers themselves they take every opportunity to make the best designed products possible, and build them with only the best materials they can buy. Toteega do this to ensure your product lasts, and so you can enjoy Kayaking to it’s maximum.
This is why Tootega back up their Hydrolite kayaks with a 2 year warranty and that’s the Tootega difference.