HEADING DOWN THE CANAL DE L'OURCQ WITH AN INFLATABLE TANDEM STAND UP PADDLE

The Ourcq paddle team
I'm itching to get started after weeks of lockdown. We planned this family expedition down the canal de l’Ourcq a long time ago with my wife and our 3 children, Quentin (20 years old), Théo (17 years old) and Romane (15 years old). A couple, we are friends with, joined in the adventure: Agnès and Pascal. Two of us have experience of a stand-up paddle expedition lasting several days. I headed down, with Quentin, the Wouri, a wild river in Cameroon. And as for me, I've also went downstream solo on the Seine in May 2019. But my teammates also have a sense for adventure. So nothing to worry about on that side.
With 7 of us, we need a team name. It will be "The Ourcq Paddle Team"!
OLIVIA PIANA JOINS ITIWIT TO COLLABORATE ON NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE MASSES
WHY ITIWIT WENT INFLATABLE

It has been 3 years since Itiwit, Decathlon's paddle sports brand decided to channel all of its energy into the design and development of inflatable stand-up paddle boards and kayaks and to do nothing but that. Read on to discover all the reasons that led us to make this move [...]
ITIWIT BY DECATHLON BRAND
Our aim is to make the enjoyment and benefits of paddle sports accessible to a greater number of people by developing inflatable products to make them feel as comfortable on water as they would on land.
It’s at Hendaye on the Bay of Txingudi, in the world’s biggest open-space office, that our engineers, designers and prototypists design the products of tomorrow. They work closely with users and listen carefully to feedback.
WHERE DOES THE NAME ITIWIT COME FROM?
"ITIWIT" is a contraction of "ITInerary" and "InuIT", the inhabitants of the Arctic and Greenland, who invented kayaking thousands of years ago! In March 2015, plans to create a "paddle sports" brand were approved. The name ITIWIT is the name of the first inflatable TRIBORD kayak marketed in 2014. ITIWIT wants to make stand-up paddling and kayaking accessible to everyone by making the equipment more compact.