Skim History

The past

In 2002 two Swedish paddlers decided, after not finding the kayaks they wanted to paddle to start designing and producing two kayaks that they thought where missing from the market. Skim Kayaks was founded, and in 2003 the first Skim Distance and Skim Dex were out on the water. Skim kayaks were produced in Finland by Charger Composites. The different design, eye for detail and exquisite quality and finish of the Skim kayaks gave Skim a great reputation and the kayaks where within a short time known all around the World. In the fall of 2007 a new kayak in the Skim Family, the Skim Differ was introduced. After 7 years of producing Skim kayaks as subcontractor, Charger Composites sat down with Göran Pehrson and Anders Nyström, the founders of Skim kayaks. During this meeting it was decided that Charger Composites would purchase Skim Kayaks and from the May 2010 Skim Kayaks was ran by Charger Composites.

We believed that after over 20 years experience in kayak building it was time to use this experience for our own brand and it felt natural to do this by continuing with Skim Kayaks a kayak brand that we have helped to build up and has been with us from the day it started. The new company structure of Skim enabled us to put a lot more time and effort in product development. We introduce several new models and updated the existing models and we developed a complete range of high end composite kayaks. The last years Charger has done excessive technical development in production techniques, it has been exiting to now use these developments for our own kayak brand. In order to develop our kayaks to the max we use the feedback we get from our paddlers as much as we can, we believe that those who paddle our kayaks are our most important consultants and they will continue to be an important part of our development program.

The present

May 2019 KAPH Group purchased Skim Kayaks in order to secure the future of Skim and, enable production to continue in Kokkola, Finland by our team of passionate kayak builders.

The future

We continue to lead in development and we are proud to see other kayak builders using innovative developments both for practical solutions as well as production systems. We are proud to have a positive impact on the paddle industry that way. As always we will continue that way of thinking and we will endlessly work on improving our kayaks in every way we can. We are proud to build some of the best kayaks on the market today and we will continue to work with the same pride and passion we have for so many years.