Insiders Look - How Kayaks Are Made (Old Town Factory Tour) 

Wow! Really cool! Old Town has always had good quality and with all the caring generations of employees it’s easy to see why! Thanks for sharing Gatewood!

Really cool. I absolutely love my Old Town Kayak. Best kayak I’ve ever had.

Love my Sportsman 120 PDL. After 19 years of being "grounded" from SOT kayaks due to back issues, I can now spend 8-10 hours fishing on the water at a stretch without any back or knee pain!

That 12 boat oven is one of the more impressive things I've seen!

Covid was a blessing for any outdoors manufacturer. Kayaks were sold out EVERYWHERE in 2020. If you did find a used one, they wanted double the price.

Proud to paddle an Old Town. Their story makes it that much more worth it!

Temporary employee, then second shift and finally first shift. Holy cow, I'm glad I went to engineering school!!!

As a previous owner of a Large Retail Paddlesports store and Manufacturer of Kayaks in Australia and a proud dealer of Old Town Canoe and Kayaks, I can fully appreciate the incredible range and quality of this range. Well done and this video is testimony to a great company. Thanks for this great video. Ross

loved hearing "3 shifts a day, 7 days a week" they never stop, they know these boats are worth a lot right now. tons of demand and growing interest

I LOVE my Loon 120. It’s my latest/newest ride. The quality of the craft is really great. I’m 6’-1” and 240 Lbs and this is the right boat for me. The seat in the Loon has to be the most comfortable in the industry. I place a lot of value in what you have to say about kayaking-so your trust in Old town helped me make the decision to buy one myself. Thanks Man!

Spectacular video! Loved it!

Just bought the PDL 120 and I freaking love it! Thanks Old Town.

A few days ago I was searching for how kayaks are made? Today when I opened RU-vid I saw this video. Thanks for sharing sir.

I have the same 14 ft old town canoe for 22 years it's still looks new and still holding together old town is simply the best

I would love to own an Old Town kayak someday. Awesome video . Thank you.

I have a sportsman 106 and very happy with it. It’s not the fastest but it is stable in the water. Your customer service is fast and friendly. A great product from a great company.

Very cool to see behind the scenes.

What a cool process of making these Kayaks. Thanks for sharing

This was super cool, love my Oldtown

Completely jealous you got to interview and film inside a production facility. Really stepping up and stepping out. Can't wait to see where your cinematic journey goes. As always Happy Paddling

Just bought from the old town website, the Autopilot 136 in limited edition Gray ghost color. great to see how it was made and what was put into it. Should arrive within the upcoming week!

i always enjoy watching your videos, on the water or documenting products.

That an awesome perspective from behind the scenes of making kayaks!

Great video, always love checking out the kayak factories✌

Sweet, gr8 video! Into my old towns, very interesting to see where & how they were made 👍👍👍

I still use my four Otter sport kayaks with my wife and friends I bought over ten years ago.

Great video! Nice to get a behind the scenes look.

Love this video! My Old Town Cayuga 146 is the best all around kayak I’ve ever had!

WOW. What a great video Gatewood

Can you PLEASE do a video on the video and microphone equipment you use? I LOVE your videos and how smooth you add your voice in. New at this, would love to learn from you.

Nice!!! Now I want one!!!

That is so cool to get a tour of the video Factory. I just got me add Old Town Vapor attack. Have yet to try it out because of very low flow in the Texas rivers right now

This is amazing!!!

Just received my 15’ kayak can’t wait to use it

I love my old town kayak. For sure my next will be another

After seeing that I will make sure that My next kayaks are Old Town. Love their canoes too & have owned each.

Thank you for making this video and hope there is more to come in the future. Old town has great quality products and made in the USA. Thank you

loved that, nice to see behind the scenes

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing. Sold even more on the brand.

This amazing another great video that has been up for less than a month with almost 200 comments and over 75K in views. Keep killing it man!!

Learn something new everyday love the content

Thanks for sharing!

Now there is my dream job! Interesting process

after seeing this old town company tour, i will appreciate my kayak, MORE. really cool....lol (i'm buying one, next year. "or maybe this winter..:))

Love my Loon 120. Perfect kayak and floats so well in shallows. Thinking about getting an Old Town canoe next!

Keep up the good work!

Very Cool!!! Thanks for sharing bud

I own a stealth kayak , super light kayak and also enjoyed this video , excellent . Kayaking is awesome .

I think it's crazy you can't really find a kayak like the O.K. Prowler 13T these days. Such an all-around great kayak. Great storage, great performance, great styling and great versatility.

I absolutely love my 106pdl

Man this is Awesome video. Just seeing how kayaks are built. My 3th son John & my 6th son paul said they wanted to know how kayaks will build. Just them seeing this video shows them how it gets built. It would be nice if you could go to the factory & watched the kayak you want to be built the color that you want for extra cost. That was awesome video buddy. I hope you and your family are doing well. Thank you for sharing.

Awesome video

I’ll be getting one of these boats once I have enough money they’re so nice

I wonder if ours were being made during the tour, lol. We picked them up at a truck terminal from one of their retailers and after we took off the tons of wrapping they’ve been a lot of fun. Great tour, thanks!

Thanks to you I got a Sportsman PDL 106

Awesome video! So cool to see how my Old Town PDL 106 was made! 👍🤡👍

I love my Old Town I’ll never get rid of it..

For about 25 years I've been the happy owner of a sit on top. Just after acquiring it I helped a business owner from Carolina Beach, North Carolina go to the factory and pickup his new inventory of eight more. Mine could use new straps & I'm getting ready to move across the country so sadly I need to sell it. I'm hopeful I'll be able to replace it once I'm settled even though my budget is really tight.

I grew up in Old Town, they originally made clipper ships until the dam went up in Bangor, once that happened they changed to boats and canoes. You were able in ships, at high tide, to go down the Penobscot (from Old Town) to the Atlantic during high tide. We had one of their boats that was made in 1921, with the serial plate info, they were able to go to a file cabinet and tell us everything about the boat, start, end of build dates, who worked on it, even how many pounds of nails were in it, board feet of wood, who the supplier was. More info than you would ever want for a boat. They change and grow with times and needs, that's how the original company has been in business for so long.

Best kayaks around

Pretty fascinating to watch the production

Great behind the scenes vid

I have an old town 12 ft dirego , very comfortable and stable

Os caiaques de vocês são top! Queria muito ter um aqui no Brasil

Absolutely love my sportsman 106 MK! It is a real conversation starter at the boat ramp. I might just pick up the auto pilot 120 also.

Wow! What an interesting and efficient factory. Thanks for sharig.

I have an old town canoe I call it the blue banana, its a fiberglass canoe, blue of course!

Damn interesting video and coverage.

Loon 160Tandem. Must be nearly 20 years old and still going strong.

Nice

Looking forward to next spring and hopefully being able to purchase the Old Town sportsman 106 with the Minn kota spot lock. That will change the way I fish forever. I'd do it this spring but I don't have the money and I've got a torn acl.

Had a hell of a time in 2020-2021 to get a kayak, which I was not successful. Heck many of their shops that buy from them told me "They are currently not making kayaks" or "They are back ordered for two years." I hope this year is different.

I really wish Old Town made a PDL Replacement Drop in Trolling Motor for their Sportsman Series. I spoke with Bixby & they are working on a Drop In unit but they are high dollar & loud

Keren om

Have TOPWATER 10' PDL LOVE IT!!!

What a cool company, can you make a mini sailboat

Glad i got mine from swift

I just bought 2 Old Town Salty 120pdl's and love them but they gouge & scratch up deeply & easily on the TX Coast by accidentally hitting oysters. We're buying Keel Guards for ours. Or the "Stick On Type for the front & Rear of the Kayaks. Ours are 2 months old & have a few deep scratches already from 4 outings.

Love your videos, what paddle do you recommend for the sportsman 120?

Love my autopilot 136.

Interesting

Never thought about it but no kayak or Canoe is the same.

do you add glass fibers to the hot melt or can that be special order someday

I use my OLDTOWN 132 to lobster fish! I pull traps all year long with it! Such a work horse! Check out the channel to see how it’s done!

Old town castine 145 😎

it's perfect to build a kayak in a factory

Insane how they hatch them like eggs

Johnson and assoc. bought out most of the kayak companies about 20 years ago, full corporate overthrow. My friend and I were freelance designers and builders of plug/prototype for Ocean Kayak.When Old Town bought out O.K. Necky etc. they(Johnson) screwed us over for back pay and royalties. I hate greedy, big companies.

No offense to all the kayak people out there but I'm the proud owner of an Old Town Canoe I have Ram mounts Humminbird Fishfinder and all the goodies and my girlfriend just nailed a 30-lb catfish in the thing you got to love Old Town in their products

Hola en donde es esa fábrica venden para colombia quiero uno

my neighbor worked there for decades

Спасибо парни, у меня SAP с вашего завода.

Anyone notice they are making Ocean Kayaks too? Did Old Town buy Ocean Kayak?

very cool tour, saddens me to hear about the toxic "temp" culture that even small companies prey and rely on to succeed

200 people making 10’s of thousands of kayaks a year. Not much time for coffee breaks. Interesting.

👋😎👍

Did they explain why Kayak prices have exploded? The ascend H10 is now $890 new.

Made in USA 💪🤙

Too bad I can't get the one I want in Atlanta at a dealer.

what kind of plastic is it made of?