serrated or non-serrated for kayaking

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i really want to get the spyderco aqua salt as a kayaking knife to attach to my pfd. i was wondering if a full serrated or plain edge blade. which would prove to be more practical.
 
Plain edge is more practical for a lot of tasks and cuts as good as serrated, but serrated just shreds through stuff. If i were caught up in netting or rope or had to cut something away, i'd use serrations. if its going to be used as a safety knife or something, buy serrated.
 
Serrations.

It's not the tearing that makes them rock though. You can push cut webbing, ropes, etc.
 
For a dive knife or an overall knife that will be used in water activity. I would go with a fully serrated blade. If you get caught in kelp or a net serrations will saw right through it.
 
thanks for all of the replies

do any of you guys know a way that i could sharpen the serrations by my self?
 
With all the flotsam out there on the water, a dedicated, serrated kayak knife is the way to go.
Spyderco Salt-1 pictured with some of the junk I frequently run into.
 
The A.B.C. Aqua from CRKT has a blunt tip to avoid damaging your boat, and partial serrations on one side. If I was going boating; I would probably pick up one of those with the blaze orange handle. Some pictures on the CRKT site show one with a pointy tip, but I would be afraid of that knife on a rubber raft. Too easy to get yourself in trouble.
 
I carry a tasman salt on my pfd, for paddling and just general boating as I work on a river. I like the hawkbill since what I keep running into is fishing line, rope, or rivergrass. Had line hooked to my vest that a guy had cast off from a bridge I was passing under, the serrated hawkbill makes that a one handed pull cut rather than letting the line roll off the edge of say, a drop point blade shape.

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