Kayak Dent

[Fish Bouncer]

So my new kayak from BPS came in today. It is the Ascend fs10 camo. Anyway, I got it off the truck put it in my garage and I notice a small concave under the kayak. It is right down the middle. It is not a dent, it looks like something might have been pushing it in and it stayed that way. My question is should I return it? I wanted to use it for the won tourney at irvine this weekend. Or is it fine the way it is? Can it be fixed? Your comments and answers are appreciated.

[viperman100]

I'm no pro or expert on kayaks by any means, to me it sounds like this is more a visual blemish than an actual defect that would affect performance. Therefore it comes down to you, I dont thing BPS would deny you a replacment but are you willing to wait for it to be replaced or are you willing to live with the idea that you bought a new kayak and you received a defect product. I have also read online that you can warm up the plastic on the kayak to smooth out small dents so that is also a possibility.

Hopefully someone with some experience in repairing kayaks can cue in here, like I said I have no experience in kayaks, I just bought my first one recently but I did look up online some info on them and ran across a couple sites with repair suggestions.

[mammoth xfactor]

set it in the sun for a little while. That will usually pop out any little concave or pressure dents.

Rob
www.mammothkayaks.com

[Fish Bouncer]

Thanks a lot guys. You really helped me. The sun just popped it out. So it looks like im ready for saturday.