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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Aesthetics and Performance in Fishing Kayak Design
What’s important in a product varies according to what different people are interested in. If you’re into kayak fishing, you’d be interested a number of things, including stability, comfort, storage, etc. offered to you by that kayak. In other words, for a kayak angler, the beauty of a kayaks depends first and foremost on its fishability, which is a composite measure of a fishing kayak’s performance.
For example, if you’re into kayak fishing, and you saw a kayak that’s very fast but also very unstable, it would seem useless to you, and therefore unattractive.
Most anglers fish from motorboats and not from kayaks, mainly because they perceive kayaks as being too unstable and too uncomfortable for fishing. Therefore, for the majority of anglers, a fishing kayak is just a too small, too uncomfortable and therefore ugly fishing boat. Continue reading
Kayak Fishing as an Extreme Sport
For most anglers, kayak fishing is definitely an extreme sport. Extreme in the sense that an angler fishing from a kayak is compelled to give up the two essential things that any motorboat provides, which are sufficient stability and basic comfort. The third one, storage space is important as well, but less than the two first ones. Indeed, fishing kayaks are not stable enough, and extremely uncomfortable, when compared to regular size boats. As for storage in fishing kayaks, the situation is as dire as it is with stability and ergonomics. Continue reading
Kayak Fishing Market Trends 2000-2010
The notion that kayak fishing is booming has been repeated for years by various interested parties, but a search in Google News archives revealed these intriguing facts: 1. From 1990, the number of news articles about kayak fishing kept increasing, … Continue reading
Posted in kayak fishing
Tagged article, fishing kayak, kayak fishing, kayak market, market, news, sale, stand up kayak fishing, standup fishing kayak, statistics
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Thank You for a Great 2009, and Happy New Year 2010!
2009 was a spectacular year for Wavewalk kayaks – Our sales this year grew by 64% compared to 2008, which was our best year so far. This is encouraging in view of the continuing slump in the boat and kayak … Continue reading
Posted in kayak design, kayak fishing
Tagged blog, fishing kayaks, kayak design, kayak fishing, kayak market, kayak review, sale, W500
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More Records for Wavewalk Kayaks in July
August marks the beginning of the new fiscal year Wavewalk, and it’s a good time to compare y-o-y performance. As it stands now, we sold 42% more kayaks in the 2008-9 year (August 1st to July 31st) compared to our … Continue reading
Posted in kayak design, kayak fishing
Tagged fishing kayaks, kayak fishing, kayak market, statistics, touring, touring kayaks
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