Brandon Cutter and friends, from Cape Cod, Massachusetts play with Brandon’s 2008 W fishing kayak in the surf in Nantucket. They paddle in parallel to the beach – hopping on breaking waves. They launch, surf and beach. (1 minute)
One of them easily recovers his overturned boat, and then keeps paddling.
I didn’t realize it was that easy to recover an overturned W that has those side flotation noodles attached to it. I might reconsider using them…
Pete
I wonder if it’s be possible to design a W that’s self bailing, like SOT kayaks are.
GR
You’ll notice that in this case the W is outfitted with just one pair of side floatation modules.
With two pairs (E models) the results would have been even better.
You can outfit your 2008 W kayak with side and top-side floatation in a way that would make them unsinkable, and prevent water from getting into the hulls if the boat is overturned.
In this sense the 2008 is already ‘self bailing’ – if properly outfitted with enough floatation in the right places.
Yoav
Cool movie