Klepper: buy a used folding boat

What you need:

• Water sports shop
• Internet

Klepper - the company was known worldwide for innovations

• Anyone who is no longer very young still knows the Klepper slogan: "From Rosenheim to the whole world." This The slogan was mainly geared towards the Klepper folding boat, which also produced excellent rain gear became.

• The folding boat gave a generation that did not have a lot of money, nevertheless, the freedom to be mobile with a small boat using a paddle or a small sail with little space requirement.

• The technology with a hard wooden interior to plug in and a robust outer skin was unique and was only replaced much later by the plastic construction of modern kayaks and canoes.

You should take a close look at the folding boat before buying it

• You can look for your Klepper folding boat in various places, one possibility is if you ask directly at the company in Rosenheim, because the boats are still being produced.

• Further you can inquire in specialty stores for water sports or rummage at file sharing sites and flea markets.


Foldable boat RZ85 - instructions for use

Anyone who has bought the RZ85 folding boat and is assembling it for the first time may ...

• If you have now found a used Klepper folding boat, it is important to examine it for its fitness to drive, regardless of its age.

• Make sure you have a look at the boat beforehand, it is important that all parts are there, the boat has a frame made of wooden parts that are put together and then tensioned. If a part is missing, it will no longer work properly. The highlight of these boats was and is that you can assemble them as a single person without tools.

• The wood should not show any damage, i.e. it should not be moldy or cracked. If only the paint flakes off a bit, that's not so bad, you can paint it again.

• You should also check the outer skin very carefully for any damage, because storage is very important. The boat should be stored in a dry, dark and unloaded place; if heavy parts were lying on it, the outer skin could be irreparably damaged and leak.

• The outer skin is made of thick rubber at the bottom and fabric at the top, which is waterproof, similar to a convertible roof fabric. However, the fabric should not have any holes or creases that cannot be straightened out.

• It is essential that you completely assemble and dismantle the boat before buying it, because this way you can quickly determine whether any parts are warped or missing.