Thanks for the explanation. 
There are many kayak designs. There are short boats designed for playing in whitewater. Medium sized boats designed for flat water, very long boats sometimes with rudders designed for flat water excursions.
The kayaks that you sit on top of are for ocean play. Waves can go over your boat and drain through. Your lower body is exposed in these kayaks.
Paddle boats? Never heard a kayak called a paddle boat. There are paddle boards, that are like surf boards kinda. You stand (or kneel) and paddle.
That much difference? I’m surprised. But they both use very heavy facial makeup which definitely softens the age difference. I wouldn’t have thought there was more than a year or two difference between them by looking at them.
Something like this. I’ve seen ones that you can sit three people on. To me they look like kayaks with the top cut off. No flat like paddle boards.
Did you miss the part where someone who does laser tattoo removal for a living told me that white ink can’t be removed?
The place I go to is state-of-the-art, BTW: if it’s possible for a tattoo to be removed, they can do it. Not all places can say the same. One place I went to for a quote didn’t bother to ask me anything about my tat before scheduling the consult, only for me to show up (after a 3-week wait) and be told “Oh, sorry, we don’t have the right kind of laser to remove blue-green ink.”
I was in one of those last week. The rental place just called them paddle kayaks. They put in a gizmo that you pump with your legs and makes little duck feet underneath paddle the water. Easier than paddling with your arms (though it also came with a paddle in case the gizmo broke or you needed to push off from something)
I can’t help wondering if somebody is going to accuse her of either cultural appropriation, or possibly (in effect) covering her body in “minstrel blackface.” Ten years ago the thought never would have crossed my mind, but the way that things have gone in recent years, I consider it a genuine possibility.
It’s already happened. It’s not mentioned often, but there are articles on the internet suggesting it could be similar to blackface.
Here’s the first one I found. I couldn’t really find any from more than a few years ago so perhaps hers (either her tattoo or the criticism of her tattoo) is the first time it’s involved someone popular enough that more than just her fans were aware of it.
One of the biggest problems with blackout tattoos, however, is that many people consider them to be cultural appropriation.
Talk about a stretch. I wonder what the article considers “many people?”
I didn’t know that. I was wondering if the mount in front of the cockpit was for raising a small mast and sail. I’ve never seen one with a sail tho.
That’s a SOT (sit on top) kayak, meant for ocean use. My son in Florida has one rigged for fishing.
Kayaks for >1 are what we call divorce boats.
I would call that a kayak.
I’ve never heard of a “paddle boat”, but when i googled it, i saw a lot of pedal boats. And this
Which explains that paddle boats have a paddle wheel which is typically powered by your feet, making them a common subset of pedal boats.
Looking more like this
But there can’t be any single answer for “white ink”, because “white ink” isn’t a single substance. All that “white” tells us is that it has a high albedo in the visible range of the spectrum. But something might be white in the visible range, but still have a low albedo in the IR or UV, in which case an IR or UV laser would work fine on it.
I see the ocean ones on my lake all the time. Can you roll an ocean going one like you can a regular kayak? I see some of them have seat belts.
Rigged for fishing - is that a fishing rod holder in the pic I posted, forward of the seat? Or can they rig a sail?
Can you link to a pic of the kayak you use? Most seem to be plastic now.
That’s my own name for them to differentiate them from other watercraft that I see. They seem like a cross between a kayak and a paddle board.
Correction to my earlier post, they were called “Pedal Kayaks”, not “Paddle”. Propels by pumping your legs, making the duck-feet move underwater. Steer with a little dial in the back along the side which moves the rudder.
Some kayaks have an open, "sit-upon’ design; mainly, as I understand it, for inexperienced duffers like myself who haven’t been trained to right themselves if they roll a “sit-in” style. A few months ago, I got a very bad burn on my thighs (on a gloomy, 100% overcast day, mind) after spending several hours paddling around the Pamlico Sound in such a boat.
I own a bunch of ‘yaks.
One is a long kayak with rudder.
Several are boring, everyday recreational kayaks.
I had a whitewater kayak, but I’m really getting too old for risk taking, so I sold it.
I have no oceans nearby, so I do not own a sit-on-top kayak. I rent them in St Martin every year.
I’ve also got a couple canoes, but they aren’t kayaks. 
No, you cannot roll a sot. They are designed to not roll, that’s why some outfitters will rent them out for flat water use.
A friend asked me if my legs got burnt kayaking after hers did. I told her I’ve been using a skirt to prevent that the past few years. Until we kayaked together, she didn’t realize I meant this, not this.
That’s pretty much what I picture when I think of a kayak, your lower body being totally covered from the waist down. Seems to be a minority setup now.
Not amongst “real” kayakers!
“It’s a kilt! A kilt! Manly dress! It’s no’ a skirt, ye scunner!”