Lake George Kayak Co. — Local services in Town of Bolton

This was my first time kayaking. I had no idea what I was doing. I crashed into some rocks on the shoreline at first because I didn't know how to turn. Then we kayak'd for hours past the bouys they told us not to go past. A bunch of boats came zooming around and we kayak'd to a distant mountain and found some house from Resident Evil. We would have disembarked but the only way to get to this house was through the little dock area and I was afraid our kayak would have drifted away. If that had happened my plan was to start a fire and put it out and send smoke signals for help. If I had more phone battery I may have tried it but I was at 30%. We ended up kayaking back towards the place we rented, against the wind and through choppy water. If you didn't row, the boat drifted backwards and sideways faster than we could row forward. I went into full beast mode and began kayaking for life. I knew my survival instincts were turnt up to level 12 simply by the fact I was kayaking faster than some of the motor boats going in the same direction. The business we rented the kayaks from was nice enough to send a rescue boat for us and they were met with a set jaw and a throbbing vein in my forehead that was slowly spiderwebbing down to my arms as my body made adjustments on the fly to deliver blood and oxygen to where it was needed most. I grinned and grunted at the boat driver and he gave me a sheepish nod and made his way back to the shore at which point I rowed even faster. The water began to feel like jelly and our kayak went airborne a few times. When Gavin wasn't napping and commenting on how beautiful the mountains were he played scout and kept an eye on where everyone else was. The vein in my forehead had now made it's way into my eyes and I activated my Byakugan to see the neon orange flags of Melissa's and Mariel's kayaks in the distance a mile or so away. I finally made it back to the dock but to the horror of the owners and employees of the kayak shop I began rowing backwards to meet Melissa and Mariel and direct them back to shore. All in all we kayak'd for three hours in crazy conditions. I would do this again but I need a flare gun and a harpoon. As per kayak rentals I would definitely come back here. Staff was polite and friendly. Gear was excellent and I especially liked the easy going labradors with the giant foreheads. They were...

Rental process and launch was easy. The young men and women that worked there were polite and helpful. Sadly we ran into an issue with a portion of our party getting stranded about a mile north due to an abrupt change in the weather and strong current. Despite an attempt to muster assistance it became readily clear they have no clear directive of how to handle a “urgent” or perhaps even a more compelling situation if one were to arise. I made it back to the faculty towing my son against the current. Upon arrival when asking the owner who was at the dock if he’ll went out to assist the remaining members of my party including a 10 year old, his immediate abrasive reaction was “weren’t you told to not go North of the buoy? Which was 100% false. We were told we could go north or south. He then asked me if “I left” my party out there alone?? not realizing anything about thE situation or that I had just towed my son back a mile against the current with his paddle board.....or that I attempted to garner assistance from his staff (grossly untrained how to handle the issue). As I was lucky enough to reach them twice by phone w patchy connection and despite informing them of the situation got transferred twice and disconnected twice...the only reason my party my it back to shore was that I was able to reach my father who called 911 to retrieve them from the lake. They brought them safely back to shore. In summary, the place itself is “ok”....but be careful as your safety which is priority number 1 with water excursions is sorely lacking. The owner and his poor attitude, leadership and response remains suspect and there are clearly no true protocols in place in the event of a true emergency . And if there are it wasn’t disseminated to anyone working there as they were clueless about how to handle of what to do. Thank you STATE POLICE. The process to retrieve them took almost 45 minutes. Thankfully they were all together, had life preservers and their paddle boards so remained relatively safe. It could have been...

I've kayaked about 20 times in my life and have never had any issues. I had never flipped once in my life. I rented a kayak from this place and I immediately flipped it as they launched me at the dock. I thought maybe I was just having a bad day so I laughed it off and got back in. I paddled for a little while and the boat became progressively more unstable. I told my girlfriend something was wrong and I had to turn back early. The kayak began to fill with water through the holes in the bottom and it became even more unstable. As I got near the dock I capsized again. One of the kids working there admitted to me that the kayak was too small for me but they had to give it to me since they were busy and didn't have any others.

I paid for an hour of relaxation (was really looking forward to some great Lake George views) and got about 20 minutes of terror thanks to the incompetence of the staff.

Also while I was there I heard that someone else was stranded in the middle of the lake but I'm not aware of the circumstances. A woman in a kayak was pleading with the staff to go out and help him.

If you go here make sure you get a kayak...