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There are different packraft designs for various specialties, from super-stable flat-water boats and ultralight vessels to whitewater-ready units and packrafts big enough for multiple people.

The Casual Kayaking meetup keeps things, well, casual, with unhurried flat-water paddles.

Flat-water kayaking is the most popular activity at Adventure: Fayette County sessions at the Beckwith park, but many children have given stand-up paddleboarding a try.

In those Games, one Moldovan, a flat-water canoeist named Oleg Tarnovschi, won the country’s only medal, a bronze that was later stripped because he violated antidoping rules.

“That would be the holy grail this time. It depends on the wind strength. As it gets windier, it gets harder to sail the boats in general, and trying to do a foiling tack would be pretty hard when it’s really windy. And obviously when it’s light you’re going to be hull in the water at times. But in 12 knots of breeze in the beautiful flat-water conditions we might get in Bermuda that time of year, it is possible.”