In 2019 after years of putting it off until next year, we finally decided this was the time to set aside all doubts, fears and procrastination.  We started to focuses and formulate a plan in order combine our love of writing, fitness, entrepreneurship and kayaking Into a business. Transferring  professional skills in sales, customer service, organizational management, teaching and marketing, was the easy part. The struggle was believing we could accomplish our goal. 

We'd been kayaking for four years at this point, had even taken training in kayaking safety and touring. We didn't feel as if we knew enough, but it was a feeling which wasn't going to pass anytime soon. Therefore instead of reading and studying more books on building a successful business or how to run a profitable kayaking rental and touring company. I took the money my wife and I had saved for to start our entrepreneurship journey and purchased twenty kayaks, twenty personal floatation devices and twenty sets of paddles along with safety helmets.  We agonized over our diminished savings along with our lack of experience in running our own business, but in the end  we gave birth to Urban kayaking...the helpless and needy newborn which we discovered needed much more attention and care than either of us could have imagined.  

Urban kayaking hasn't come into maturity as of yet, but it's up and running.... or rather gliding through waters... ready for the next growth and adventure. 

                                                                                                                                                                                       by  Vincent Edmonds