Monthly Archives: February 2011

Bob and Gary in Another Kayak Fishing Adventure, Florida

I got together with Bob for a day of fishing. Got some nice trout and had a great day on the water until we ran into a stiff breeze that we had to battle on our way back to the launch site. Needless to say, I’ll sleep good tonite. Continue reading

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Ray Schwertner’s Maiden Voyage in His New W500 Fishing Kayak He Rigged With a Detachable Wheel, Texas

I went on the maiden voyage. Works great!! Love it. SO much better than a canoe.
Took no time at all to get used to it.
I think I may install the noodles directly to the cockpit edges, without the bungee cords.
I also invented a wheel trolley using some ideas of the other guys. Continue reading

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Stan Trojanowski’s Amphibious Fishing Kayak, South Carolina

The kayak turns into an amphibious vehicle ready to land anywhere. I am thinking about adapting the existing carrying handles as nooses to hold the pipe and make the wheel pipe frame rotate/ swinging in and out, like a plane landing gear. Continue reading

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Detachable Flotation For Fishing Kayak

Flotation is a useful means of recovery for kayaks. Depending on where it is added to the kayak, and how much of it is used, it can assist you in recovering your W kayak, and preventing it from sinking if it gets filled with water, in case you capsize it.

When attached below the kayak’s saddle (Fig. 1-3) the flotation will keep the kayak floating in case it is overturned, and water gets into the hulls. When attached on the kayak’s sides (Fig 4) the flotation modules may prevent the kayak from overturning, could help the kayak right itself if it’s laying on its side, and will assist you in turning it back, and recovering it. Wavewalk kayaks are offered with closed-cell polyethylene foam side flotation modules that you can attach either below the saddle, or or on the kayak’s sides. Each kayak flotation module is 5 ft long (150 cm), and 2.5″ in diameter (6.5 cm), and features a bungee cord going through it, with hooks on both ends. Continue reading

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Jeff’s W Fishing Kayak – The Night Before

Here’s a picture Jeff sent us, showing his W fishing kayak strapped to his pickup truck, and waiting to be unleashed at the break of dawn…
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