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 where out on the water. Skim kayaks where 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 1st of May 2010 Skim Kayaks is ran fully by Charger Composites.

We believe that after over 20 years experience in kayak building it is 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 enables us to put a lot more time and effort in product development. We will on a regular bases introduce new models and let our current models evaluate and improve over time. The last years Charger has done excessive technical development in production techniques, it is 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 be an important part of our development program.