The Wavewalk kayak offers some 10 cubic feet of dry storage space inside its cockpit and hull tips. However, you can also use the space on top of the hull tips to store and attach additional gear.
Wayne Taylor, from Florida, outfitted his unique W-kayak with two surfaces – one on each side of the cockpit. He bolted them to the hulls, and added Nylon eyelets as attachment points.
The front panel serves among other things to support a fish finder display box:
The rear panel hosts Wayne’s watertight tackle box:
Interesting. This idea opens a lot of new possibilities.
Marco
How did you mount the transducer for your fishfinder?
Thanks,
Jack
The unit I have is a portable unit Eagle cuda 128 and the transducer has a suction cup on it and u just mount on side of wave walk while fishing
I’m trying to find out if anyone has used a thru the hull transducer with the wavewalk. I’ve seen where people have used them on kayaks by gluing a piece of foam with a cutout the size of the transducer and then half filling the “mold” with goop. The transducer is then inserted partially submerged in the goop. I’m not sure if this will work with the type of material used in making the wavewalk.
Thanks,
Jack
Jack,
The W-kayak is molded from polyethylene, which is the material that nearly all other manufacturers use for making their kayaks, including the fishing models.
I’ve posted an article about a new adhesive made by 3M:
http://wavewalk.com/blog/2008/04/22/3m-4693-scotch-grip-tm-h-plastic-adhesive-good-for-use-in-polyethylene-kayaks/
However, I don’t recommend making holes of any size in a kayak hull anywhere below or close to waterline, especially bigger holes that can create tension points. Taking the risks involved isn’t worth it, in my opinion, because ‘stuff happens’…
Yoav