Which Salt for a Kayaker/windsurfer?

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phil000

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Howdy all,
I am no stranger to spyderco and have a tasman salt and several other spydercos. I am right now looking for a present for my uncle's birthday. He's a kayaker/windsurfer...and rather athletic person in general, and want him to be able to carry a Salt in order to cut himself out of his kayak or off of his board line.

So my question to you all is which one?

Secondary question: does anyone know the right sized carabiner for the spyderhole on those?

Thanks all,
Phil
 
I'm a whitewater raft guide and i roll with the Salt 1 serrated. It's a great knife and feels solid when your hands are wet. as for a caribiner, you'd have to get one of those cheap non climbing ones to fit throught the lanyard hole on the salt models. Even if you take the clip off and remove the black washer, i dont think there is a quality biner small enough to fit through. I would just get him a nice lanyard for it.
 
BTW, i would suggest the yellow handled one, its much easier to see in murky water, as well as in the dark.
 
I guide as well and carry a Salt 1 on my PFD. I wish it were yellow, but the knife is great for its' purpose just the same. I actually just got finished a tour an hour or so ago and another guide needed my knife to cut some fibreglass tape off his paddle and his Gerber Shorty couldn't do it. The Salt made short work of it. I gave him a shot saying, "Kinda missing the point of carrying a knife, if it won't cut!".
 
Salt-1 SE user here, sea kayaking along the northeast sea coast. Nice salty water here, killer for anything but H1. The Salt is always attached to my PFD, in this environment, spyderedge rules. I have a plain edge Pacific Salt for shore duty.
 
Another suggestion is to go with the new Saver Salts which have a sheepsfoot blade the same size as a Salt 1. Both would work excellently though. I recently got a Pacific Salt PE and plan to get an SE model to pair it with. They are such useful knives. Thanks Sal!
 
The first sheaths I ever made were fast access rescue knife sheaths for whitewater boaters - I was a kayaker way before I became a sheathmaker. They attach to lash tabs or any free piece of webbing on your PFD (I use the chest adjustmant straps). Any of the Salt series from Spyderco is the way to go. The blue handled knife in the picture is a Rescue Jr, which is the same configuration as the Saver Salt (Savers weren't avalable when picture was taken). My personal preferrence is the Tasman Salt.


http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=488133
 
My pacific salt lives in my board shorts - does sea-kayaking, snorkeling and body surfing. The strong clip and textures finish on the scales creates very strong retention - It's never budged unless I pull it out.

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I am a kayaker as well. I carry and love my blue 93mm SE Rescue. It is not a Salt model but I have not had any rust issues at all. I just wash it off when I get home and it is fine. I would choose the Atlantic Salt for him based on my fondness for the Rescue model. Yellow and full SE would be great. I had a PE Pac Salt but didn't like it. I need a SE for sure and a blunt tip is a plus as well.
 
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