Lixada Kayak Boat Canoe Sun Shade Canopy for Single Person

Used this out at the lake last weekend and was very pleased with it. Its easier to install on land, tho I managed it on the water. Has tent like poles in segments that bungee together kinda and it's easiest if you start from one end and follow it around. Fits in rod holders of my teton kayak no problem and when strapped down covers most of my body from the sun depending on direction. Super light weight but doesn't allow sun to pass through it. Great for a leisurely paddle in tx water.

This sun shade works great. Easy to assemble and disassemble. I recommend this shade.

Great canopy for recumbent trike. A little too short for a trike.

Be careful which fishing rod holders you by to install for this if you don’t already have some installed it needs to be straight up and down also the fishing rod holders I have were too deep so I had to put skupper plugs in the bottom of them to make the shade high enough so it doesn’t touch my head other than that it seem to hold up very well although I did have to lean forward to paddle because I kept hitting my arms on it. It’s totally worth it for the shade though I burn very easily now I can fish without getting a horrible sunburn

Bought this to install a canopy on my fishing kayak, as I planned to use the rod holders for fishing poles rather than the canopy poles. There’s no directions whatsoever but it’s not super hard to figure out. Only problem is the incredibly cheap parts.The biggest problem is that the base and piece that holds the canopy pole is entirely made of plastic, including the threads that hold the two screw ends together. The canopy naturally sits at an angle and will pop the base and holder pieces apart, no matter how tight you try to get them. The canopy holder also only has like 3-4 threads to screw to the base, which doesn’t help. You can only tighten them to a certain point before the threads slip and begin to strip out.While I liked the idea of this, it’s way too cheap of a design. The bolt that tightens around the canopy pole is practically useless since you can’t tighten the two pieces enough. There is a small hole that also goes through the base that attaches to the kayak, and I plan on just drilling the hole one size bigger so that the canopy pole fits into it. Can‘t really return it since the holes are already drilled in my kayak.If you’re handy and have time to mess with the design to get it to work, I’d buy this as a last resort. Otherwise, steer clear and find literally any other mount. This isn’t worth $18 at all, I could’ve rigged something up from the hardware store for less if I knew how cheap the pieces were.

With the shade in place, it makes it much more difficult to get into or out of the kayak. It also becomes a sail on windier days.

For the money it's kind of meh. The device is generally easy to "install" once you put the non included mounting posts on. That part is pretty much a guessing game for where you want them. Once installed the covering is a bit too tall and flimsy. As the kayak shifts so goes the canopy. It's also not really wide enough to provide much cover for anything unless you only go out around noon and travel east/west. Overall it is what it is, I can't come up with a better design so we're left with what is out there....

I don’t know why this has thickness and sheerness for the questions. The thickness is not very and sheerness is not sheer.But this is a great product and works excellent. I used it on my kayak when I just got out to paddle around. It keeps most of the Texas sun off you.But I did knock it lose a few times while paddling. It didn’t make much difference with wind other than a couple of instances but overall a great product!!!!