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How to Keep Your W500 Fishing Kayak Cockpit Dry

Typically, very little water can get inside your W500 cockpit, because the kayak offers a high freeboard – more than any kayak does. This is true even when you’re launching in the surf, because you can lift the bow by sitting in the back of the cockpit, and thus go over the incoming waves, instead of through them, like you’d have to do with all other kayaks. Continue reading

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DIY Bilge Hand Bucket for Your Fishing Kayak

Sometimes you might need to drain water from the bottom of your fishing kayak, for example if a big wave breaks right on top of it, or if you capsized it and it overturned. Whitewater canoeists and kayakers as well … Continue reading

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