Yesterday I had a long conversation with a man who has built and designed fifteen small boats in recent years, including kayaks. He’s an avid fisherman too, and we naturally started talking about kayak fishing.
When the conversation got into details it became clear that although kayak fishing has grown tremendously in recent years the number of people who fish from kayaks is still very small in comparison to the number of people who fish from motorboats.
We easily agreed that sit-in kayaks, and recently SOT kayaks don’t provide a comfortable enough platform for fishing, and outriggers were an invitation for your fishing lines to get caught in them.
He found a funny way to summarize the situation, saying: -”Kayak fishing is a great idea with the wrong boat.”
Needless to say that we found it easy to agree that the W is the kind of boat that can take kayak fishing to the next level.
Yoav
what do you think of the [edited: new SOT canoe-kayak design and hybrid canoe-sit-in kayak design]?
Bill
Both designs are very wide and reminding of canoes in that sense, in order improve stability, which is a (maybe ‘the’) major issue in fishing kayaks.
Both also represent attempts to solve the problem of the traditional L sitting position, which is also a major issue.
“Recommended reading”:
http://www.wavewalk.com/FISHING_KAYAK_STABILITY.html
http://www.wavewalk.com/KAYAK_FISHING_ERGONOMICS_and_BIOMECHANICS.html
Why does it seem like wavewalk is obsessed with stability?
I wouldn’t say obsessed – They’ve achieved something and they like to brag about it.