Skin raft English is kayak, canoe. Initial meaning kayak is the kayak, canoe is the hard ship, but the present has not differentiated such strictly. The Olympic Inflatable Arches Games skin raft project is Canoe/Kayak, the former refers to the single end oar one-sided to delimit, artificial squats the posture, competes fast primarily; But the latter to hold the double headed oar to assume the sitting posture, many are the drift. 　
　From the material quality, the skin raft may divide into the hard ship, the soft ship (gasification, folding boat) and so on. The hard ship many for the polyethylene, the carbon filament and so on flinty material makes,Bape, the soft ship many are an inflatable boat, with the PVC polyethylene, the use receives needs the sufficient deflation. According to function and structural design difference, also has the platform boat, the leisure boat, the sea boat, the overweight person ship, the turbulent current ship and so on discrimination.
　　The skin raft, the dugout canoe movement by the general designation is paddling, generally refers to small rowing a boat which carries on with the hand oar, usually divides into the still water (flat w ater) and the clear water (white water) two broad headings. The Inflatable Arches former are many water surface which relaxes tranquilly to carry on, including the leisure, the water surface makes a long journey, the game entertainment, athletics to compete fast and so on,Burberry, some professionals even indicated that “the leisure dugout canoe is one item suits the participation from 8 years old to 80 years old the activity.”
　　But the latter refers to has the wave running water waters to carry on, is mainly the rivers drift, also has uses the ship individually in the sea surfing, is high to individual specification.