WAVEWALK FISHING KAYAKS BLOG » color http://wavewalk.com/blog The World's Best Fishing Kayaks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:16:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New, Sand Color For W Kayaks http://wavewalk.com/blog/2011/08/18/new-sand-color-for-w-kayaks/ http://wavewalk.com/blog/2011/08/18/new-sand-color-for-w-kayaks/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:28:11 +0000 W kayak http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=2514 Continue reading →]]> Wavewalk Inc. was founded exactly 10 years ago, in August 2001.
We thought how we’d like to celebrate this event, and decided to come up with a third standard color, in addition to the yellow and green we’ve been offering since we rolled out our first W300 kayaks, back in April of 2004.
After much deliberation with our distributors overseas, our US dealers, and a group of trusted advisers, starting today we’re offering a new color for our W kayaks that we call ‘Sand’.
Verbal description: A full-bodied, neutral to warm beige.
Hexadecimal color #875a2d , rgb(135,90,45) note the 3:2:1 ratio between the channel values
This is how the new color looks like on a computer screen:

New Sand color for kayak
The white and black dots merely serve as visual reference.
Note: Different screens show colors differently, due to multiple reasons, including individual setup.
Also, colors of plastic objects are not defined in hexadecimal or RGB numbers.
Therefore, please remember that the actual sand color W kayak you’ll receive may have a color that’s slightly different from what you saw on your computer screen.
The same is true for the two other colors we offer.

View first photos of a sand colored W500 kayak >>

This new, Sand color for our W kayaks blends well with certain environments, and can serve as a good background for various camo patterns. For additional camouflage work on your W kayak, we recommend using a spray paint named Krylon Fusion, which seems to stick to Polyethylene surfaces better than other paint does. This paint gets easily scratched easily, but it’s easy to repair the damage.

]]> http://wavewalk.com/blog/2011/08/18/new-sand-color-for-w-kayaks/feed/ 1 Get The W500 Kayak In Any Color You Want http://wavewalk.com/blog/2011/07/15/get-the-w500-kayak-in-any-color-you-want/ http://wavewalk.com/blog/2011/07/15/get-the-w500-kayak-in-any-color-you-want/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 04:44:30 +0000 W kayak http://wavewalk.com/blog/?p=2333 Continue reading →]]> Now you can custom order from us the W500 kayak in any color you want.
By any color we mean a single color. For example: red, blue, black, sand, brown, orange, gray, pink, etc., with one exception – no white. No camo or any other special pattern.
Minimum order for this special service: 4 W kayaks.
Expect a slightly longer delivery time for such order.


]]> http://wavewalk.com/blog/2011/07/15/get-the-w500-kayak-in-any-color-you-want/feed/ 0 What Color and Form For My Fishing Kayak? http://wavewalk.com/blog/2008/02/14/what-color-and-form-for-my-kayak/ http://wavewalk.com/blog/2008/02/14/what-color-and-form-for-my-kayak/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:28:40 +0000 W kayak http://wavewalk.com/blog/2008/02/14/what-color-and-form-for-my-kayak/ Continue reading →]]> The color question keeps coming back and probably would forever.
If you’re just paddling you probably want a bright yellow kayak that will be the most visible to fast motorboats drivers.
If you’re hunting or bird watching you’d better choose a dark green or camouflaged kayak, for obvious reasons.

The answer becomes more complicated when it comes to fishing – From an underwater perspective the color of a surface object is a minimal issue. Flash and shine are more likely to cause a reaction among fish, as well as sudden motion and noise. Having said that, you can try and improve the odds:

Regardless of what colors various fish species are capable of discerning, what we know and can test for ourselves is that when you’re in the water you usually perceive the bottom to be dark, and when looking upward you’re actually looking at a source of light – whether it is strong of feeble, depending on circumstances.
In fact, nearly all fish have their back darker than their bellies, so that they would blend in with the bottom when looked upon from above, and blend in with the sky when looked upon from below.

So far, the answer seems to be ‘choose a fishing kayak that has a light bottom’, doesn’t it? -Well, not necessarily, because color (or brightness, actually) is only part of what fish can see and react to.
The other thing (besides motion) is the basic form of your kayak: Like all animals who fear predators, fish can instantly discern a pattern that looks like a predator and react to its presence automatically by either swimming away or hiding. There is no thought whatsoever involved in such pattern recognition process – It’s just a basic physiological reflex.

Your kayak’s contour on the bright sky background can easily fit into a ‘Predator’ pattern because the form of a traditional monohull kayak is basically one of a fish. In fact, one of the two basic monohull forms is called ‘Fish’, and the other is called ‘Swede’ and it is identical to the Fish form except for the fact that the kayaker is facing the other way…
So, it would make sense to try and ‘break’ this fish-scaring pattern by camouflaging the bottom of your kayak to make it look like something else, such as floating branches or flotsam.

From this aspect, the bottom of a W kayak looks like two straight and parallel objects not alike a fish form. This is a somehow better start, and whether you choose a bright colored W Kayak to blend with the bright sky background or a dark W Kayak to make its contour resemble even less to a predator fish is up to you.

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