Onak Canoe

Paddling with the flow of a stream is an amazing feeling. However, you usually end your journey in a different location. The ONAK Canoe solves this issue by being foldable: stash it in the trunk of your car, carry it around with public transport, allowing for less planning than ever. A real adventure.

Instead of designing around the limits of existing materials, we developed our own: it is durable and flexible enough to be folded and unfolded multiple thousands of times. ONAK's patent pending Honeycomb – Curv Polypropylene material became the backbone of our innovation. Aside from being extremely tough and fully recyclable, it allowed us to design a stiff canoe almost entirely in one piece, with very few other parts required. Honeycomb air cells give it so much additional buoyancy that it even stays afloat when entirely flooded with water.

By making hundreds of paper models and fifteen real prototypes, ONAK refined the design of their patent pending hull. This was a huge challenge due to the limitations of origami. They opted for a narrow and fast canoe design that keeps its momentum very well, while still being delightfully easy and stable to maneuver for beginners.