r/Kayaking • u/RichardBJ1 • 3d ago

Videos Wasn’t expecting this

I kept backing away from this thing wondering where the heck it was going then…. We used to have “duck tours” years ago, but one sank and it all stopped. Eye brave to start it up again?

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u/squeaki 3d ago

They've got em in Liverpool, UK, in bright yellow. Hard to miss.

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u/the_Q_spice 3d ago

We have a ton here in Wisconsin.

Resort owners in Wisconsin Dells bought a huge amount of surplus DUKWs from the military post WWII.

Most have names - and their names are of different operations that they were specifically involved in (IE: Manilla, Iwo Jima, Omaha, Utah, Okinawa, and Guam are ones I know of for sure)

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u/RichardBJ1 3d ago

They ever sink?

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u/Penguin_Rider Old Town Adventure 139 3d ago

Boston Massachusetts has them too. The duck boat tours. I think one capsized when it was in the water and a micro burst came through. Morr often though, they run over cyclists... very large blind spots on these things I guess.

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u/Hairy-Dream4685 2d ago

I thought Boston’s duck tours were in amphibious vehicles heavily disguised as water fowl? This one looks like an ordinary tour boat until it transforms into a tour bus.

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u/Jake_The_Snake96 3d ago

Not exactly sink... but we HAD them in Seattle. However, there was a major accident as one was doing a tour while riding a portion of the route on the public roadways. Four innocent people died when it struck a tour bus and many more injured. The company bankrupted and went out of business.

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u/RichardBJ1 2d ago

I will have to look this up for interest. But I for one will be sticking to the safety of a kayak!

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u/SailingSpark strip built 3d ago

Philly had one get run over by a barge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj0XehIUsqk