Comments on: Wavewalk’s 3rd Quarter of the Year http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/ Kayak Fishing and Paddling: New Standards in Fishing Kayaks. Fishing Kayak Reviews and Kayak Fishing Trip Reports by and for Kayak Anglers Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2368 admin Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:15:14 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2368 It depends - Most people who've tried both prefer the W500, but that doesn't necessarily mean you would. It seems the bigger the person and the longer the time they need to spend in the boat the more they tend to like the W500. Technically speaking, the W500 is a more accomplished boat: It's stabler, faster and more comfortable than the W300. However, being narrower and smaller gives the W300 a different, fun feeling in paddling, especially if you're a lightweight person who likes to play. Yoav It depends – Most people who’ve tried both prefer the W500, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you would.
It seems the bigger the person and the longer the time they need to spend in the boat the more they tend to like the W500.
Technically speaking, the W500 is a more accomplished boat: It’s stabler, faster and more comfortable than the W300. However, being narrower and smaller gives the W300 a different, fun feeling in paddling, especially if you’re a lightweight person who likes to play.

Yoav

]]> By: jit33 http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2367 jit33 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:02:42 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2367 Just how different these two models really are? Just how different these two models really are?

]]> By: admin http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2366 admin Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:33:17 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2366 Well, as you can see from the customer reviews, since May 1st most our sales have been W500, and people love it. It's hard to say how many of them would have bought a W300 instead, if we didn't offer the W500. My feeling is that the introduction of the W500 was a turning point for us, because this boat, although similar in many ways to the W300, is more user-friendly, and inspires more confidence. In the past, prospecting customers used to ask more questions about the W300 before they ordered one, but it seems the W500 is pretty much 'self evident'. In fact, the very first customers who had ordered a W500 did so without even seeing a picture of it - All we had to show them were a few computer-generated images from the CAD file that was used to produce the mold for it :) Yoav Well, as you can see from the customer reviews, since May 1st most our sales have been W500, and people love it.
It’s hard to say how many of them would have bought a W300 instead, if we didn’t offer the W500.
My feeling is that the introduction of the W500 was a turning point for us, because this boat, although similar in many ways to the W300, is more user-friendly, and inspires more confidence.
In the past, prospecting customers used to ask more questions about the W300 before they ordered one, but it seems the W500 is pretty much ‘self evident’. In fact, the very first customers who had ordered a W500 did so without even seeing a picture of it – All we had to show them were a few computer-generated images from the CAD file that was used to produce the mold for it :)

Yoav

]]> By: Mike M http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2365 Mike M Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:18:10 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2365 Congrats! How much of this success is due to the new w500? Congrats!
How much of this success is due to the new w500?

]]> By: acrt http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2364 acrt Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:52:06 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2364 sots should bear a special sticker saying "be aware that this paddle board features big holes that you can see, but it may also have small holes that you don't see, and these holes may cause water to leak in without you noticing it - until it's too late" every household has at least one sik or sot, and they don't necessarily like it that much. why buy more of those yaks when it's clear they're all the same, and not that great, to say the least... sots should bear a special sticker saying “be aware that this paddle board features big holes that you can see, but it may also have small holes that you don’t see, and these holes may cause water to leak in without you noticing it – until it’s too late”
every household has at least one sik or sot, and they don’t necessarily like it that much. why buy more of those yaks when it’s clear they’re all the same, and not that great, to say the least…

]]> By: Jeff McGovern http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2363 Jeff McGovern Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:27:41 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2363 Well well maybe it's not just the current economic set back. I fish with folks who keep trying "different" boats in the hope of a better outcome. Truth be told those sit on tops are all the same. I guess the only real differences between them are how wet your butt gets and how fast. Oh yeah let's not forget the spiffy new ports and holes in them to stuff things into the hull. Next season should show the true results of all the concerns they are having with reduced "new " model counts and much less ad dollars being spent. Well well maybe it’s not just the current economic set back. I fish with folks who keep trying “different” boats in the hope of a better outcome. Truth be told those sit on tops are all the same. I guess the only real differences between them are how wet your butt gets and how fast. Oh yeah let’s not forget the spiffy new ports and holes in them to stuff things into the hull. Next season should show the true results of all the concerns they are having with reduced “new ” model counts and much less ad dollars being spent.

]]> By: Marco http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2362 Marco Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:26:49 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2362 That's not going to happen, but people will stop buying those yaks once they realize how bad the problem is, and that there's a good alternative. That's what happened decades ago with all the skiing boots that didn't offer good ankle support - they got the boot! :D :D :D That’s not going to happen, but people will stop buying those yaks once they realize how bad the problem is, and that there’s a good alternative.
That’s what happened decades ago with all the skiing boots that didn’t offer good ankle support – they got the boot! :D :D :D

]]> By: acrt http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2361 acrt Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:51:13 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2361 good job wavewalk! it's time they regulated the yak industry, and L position yaks should have stickers on them that warn the user that "sitting in this kayak could hurt your back" IMHO good job wavewalk!
it’s time they regulated the yak industry, and L position yaks should have stickers on them that warn the user that “sitting in this kayak could hurt your back” IMHO

]]> By: Marco http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2360 Marco Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:55:25 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2360 What were they thinking? That people would keep getting their credit cards out of their wallets and pay for those poorly designed and over-hyped branded kayaks? Did they imagine such thing could last forever? Customers today are more careful and more educated, and they have the means to find information and evaluate it on their own. People no longer depend on magazines and websites that earn money from advertisement, and they don't even trust those outdoors, paddling and fishing magazines and websites anymore because of all the covert advertising that's going on there. Marco What were they thinking? That people would keep getting their credit cards out of their wallets and pay for those poorly designed and over-hyped branded kayaks? Did they imagine such thing could last forever?
Customers today are more careful and more educated, and they have the means to find information and evaluate it on their own. People no longer depend on magazines and websites that earn money from advertisement, and they don’t even trust those outdoors, paddling and fishing magazines and websites anymore because of all the covert advertising that’s going on there.
Marco

]]> By: Pete http://wavewalk.com/blog/2009/10/01/wavewalks-3rd-quarter-of-the-year/#comment-2359 Pete Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:44:49 +0000 http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=372#comment-2359 [a publicly traded outdoor products company] reported the results of their watercraft division in the third fiscal quarter, and it looks like a disaster, with 26% decline in sales, kayak factories being closed etc. It looked even worse than their last year's reports, which were pretty bad. It doesn't seem like their management thinks things may improve for them. Pete [a publicly traded outdoor products company] reported the results of their watercraft division in the third fiscal quarter, and it looks like a disaster, with 26% decline in sales, kayak factories being closed etc.
It looked even worse than their last year’s reports, which were pretty bad.
It doesn’t seem like their management thinks things may improve for them.
Pete

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