Comments on: Gary Rankel’s New, Rigged W500 Fishing Kayak, Florida

By: W kayak

W kayak — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:34:40 +0000

Philip,
Gary will be happy to take you fishing in the Ozello maze. He’s been there countless times, and never got lost, so far
Yoav

By: Philip allen

Philip allen — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 14:30:40 +0000

Great pages and W. Especially I’m interested in info to help me plan a trip to fish in June when I come down from Md to visit the inlaws.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:47:44 +0000

Hi nieghbor! I’ve been looking for a kayak and found the W today on the internet. What an awsome yak! I’ll be using it around Honeymoon and Caladesi for sure!

By: Gary Rankel

Gary Rankel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:51:41 +0000

Thanks Yoav, Jeff for your comments regarding hull protection. The plastic lid idea may be a better option than my steel-reinforced doormat slide. You never know – with all the high-tech, space-age technology, something may hit the market – - until then I guess we’ll just have to live with some scratches.

By: Jeff McGovern

Jeff McGovern — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:39:55 +0000

Hey Gary, Glad that strap solution worked for you. I don’t know of anything to coat the hull with either unless you consider the bottom paint they use on Triumph boats since they are rotomolded poly too. Some of the folks will bottom paint those since they are in the water for months at a time. But even then you’ll be removing it each time you drag over hard rough materials. Yoav’s idea is clean and simple. The bottom of my W hulls are pretty roughed up mainly from finding oyster beds using the hear them first method. Not much you can do about that and I don’t know of any hull material they won’t tear up. Even my old Grumman has scratches from finding a few.