HE FIRST TIME I encountered the curious phrase ‘folding kayak’ was reading Paul Theroux’s 1992 travel book , in which he explores the South Pacific in a 16-foot Klepper Aerius, a German craft assembled from wood and rubber-impregnated canvas. The concept was intriguing but fell out of my brain until last year, when a friend told me about Oru Kayaks, first launched on Kickstarter in 2013. While Klepper’s and other models need to be
