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What’s a local W dealer?

Our local U.S. dealers are Value Added Resellers (VAR), and they are legal and commercial entities that are independent and separate from the Wavewalk company.

What does Wavewalk offer to its local dealers?

1. We offer our dealers 30% discount on all merchandise and 27% discount on shipping on regular wholesale orders, and bigger discounts on bigger orders. The basis for discounts is our guaranteed, real-life retail prices, and not just an MSRP.
2. A W dealership area consists of a radius of at least 100 miles around the W dealer, in which Wavewalk won’t install other W dealers. In scarcely populated regions, a W dealership area may consist of a much bigger territory, and even entire states.
3. We offer full technical and marketing support for dealers and their clients, by phone and by email.
4. We list our dealers on our website’s dealers list.
5. For every W dealer, we create a full-featured website for free, with free setup and free tech support.
6. We actively help our dealers promote their websites on Internet search engines.
7. We offer our dealers to buy basic W kayak models, upgrade them, and resell them as top of the line models. This is easy, since all our models feature the same hull, and they differ just by the way they’re outfitted.
8. We offer all our dealers and their client a limited warranty for materials and workmanship under regular usage conditions, and excluding normal wear and tear.

What does Wavewalk require from its local dealers?

1. To make the W kayak and accessories available for local clients to see and purchase.
2. To help clients with information, advice and basic outfitting, if required.
3. To let local clients test the W kayak if so they wish. The dealer may charge a fee for such a live demo.
4. To respond promptly to clients’ inquiries, and deal with them respectably and fairly.
5. To make wholesale purchases from us, and maintain a minimum inventory of W kayaks for sale to clients who wish to make a purchase on the spot.
6. To make W kayak accessories such as paddles and motor mounts available for purchase to their local clients.

What doesn’t Wavewalk offer to its local dealers?

1. We work to help our local dealers develop their business, but we don’t offer any guarantee that a W dealership is forever – If we feel that a dealership is under performing without a good external reason, we’ll talk to the dealer about it, and if things don’t improve, we’ll stop featuring the dealer on our dealers’ list, and look for others to take their place in that area.
2. We don’t offer credit, even on large size orders.
3. We don’t offer any technical support or warranty for products that were not purchased from us.
4. We don’t offer a guarantee that we’ll keep supplying the dealer under all circumstances, and we will bring the relationship with our dealer to an end if we see that they don’t represent our company or our products properly, or don’t serve local W clients properly.
5. Reselling other watercraft: While we may agree that a local W dealer offer other watercraft for sale under special circumstances, we could deem it a good enough reason for terminating the W dealership.

What doesn’t Wavewalk require from its local dealers?

1. We don’t require from our local dealers to have a commercial store front, or stay open on regular business hours. A W dealer may decide to show W kayaks only by appointment.
2. We don’t require from our local dealers to have previous experience in the kayak business, or any other business experience.
3. We don’t require from our local dealers to make large orders before the kayaking and fishing season, or commit to making such orders. Having said that, some of our dealers have learned the value of keeping a good size inventory of W kayaks and accessories.
4. We don’t require from our local dealers to advertise locally, or to actively promote the W kayak locally. However, we encourage our dealers to get involved in local paddling and fishing activities, both real-life and online, and develop both personal and local content on their websites – and we actively help them do so.
5. We don’t require that our dealers sell W accessories exclusively, but we recommend they do so, especially when paddles and motor mounts are concerned.
6. We don’t require from our dealers to resell any of our products above or below certain price levels, and we don’t intervene in their pricing policies. However, we do expect their pricing to be fair and reasonable, and support long term growth and profitability.
7. We don’t require that our dealers restrict their sales to their areas. Our dealers often sell to clients who live in remote areas, and even in other states. Our northern dealers have made sales to clients who came from Canada.

We cannot fish in Connecticut until 3rd week in April.
Have done more work on WW: Some CT lakes & ponds are elec motors only, so I have set the boat up to work with gas or elec. Had to make piece to raise the height of the motor mount for the elec. Made it out of teak & s/s.
Installed Fish Finder, Compass, Radio. Racks to hold paddle & push pole.
Put another bolt in each side of motor mount, it’s more stable & rigid.
I also installed a very small seat from a rowing machine. It’s in the best place for me.
Also took an old plastic cutting board and made a platform for my jiggers. It’s overkill, but it’s what I want to fish.
I plot out the lakes before I fish them, marking the outline of the proper depth for my type of fishing with buoys on my GPS screen. Got a couple more local & one in MA to do in the next few weeks.
Russ

Cutting board used as platform - the batteries are in the kayak's hull tips

Close up on batteries at the bottom of the hulls, for the trolling motor and jiggers

Front deck, depth finder, platform with fishing tackle attached on both sides

Fishmonger Junior, Russ' fishing kayak, next to Fishmonger - his other boat

Preparation for the jiggers

Jiggers installed - rear view with electric motor, jointed tiller extension, and seat

Long shaft electric motor, transom mount with additional piece, and security cable

Rear view of Russ' high tech fishing kayak. Note the motor shaft is secured with a bungee 'W style'...

Fishmonger Junior viewed from another angle

Front view of Russ' high tech fishing kayak. Note the eyelets on the hull sides are part of the 502 configuration, and that's where it's possible to attach XL flotation modules

Fishmonger Junior and Fishmonger. BTW, Jr. has a Honda motor too, although it's much smaller...

Extra large (XL) and standard size detachable flotation modules

In practical terms, this means that you can make a very dense object weighing 25 lbs such as a led weight stay close to the surface of the water and not sink to the bottom, if you attach it to an XL flotation module.
An object’s density is measured by its volume divided by its weight.
The density of water is 1.
If the object you want to save from drowning is less dense than led, it can be heavier than 25 lbs and still be recovered by being attached to an XL flotation module. The less dense the object, the heavier it can be, since more of its weight will be supported by its own volume.
Objects with a density of 1 or less don’t require flotation to stay afloat, since the density of water is 1, and therefore they are lighter than water.
Most kayaks are molded from Polyethylene resins. Polyethylene is slightly less dense than water, but a Polyethylene kayak could still sink to the bottom if its hull gets filled was water because of the weight of the accessories attached to it, such as rubber handles, rod holders that have metal parts in them, and rivets, let alone a motor…

How To Attach Extra Large Side Flotation Modules To The W502 Kayak?

If you’re driving a motorized W502, you’ll be going at a high speed, which would raise the kayak’s bow, and lower its stern. In such case, the rear pair of XL side flotation modules might occasionally come in contact with the water, and spray you… In order to avoid it, you’d need to attach the front end of the rear flotation modules higher than the rear ends of the front pair, as shown in this image:

How to attach the front end of the rear float higher than the rear end of the front float

Note: XL flotation modules are wider than standard ones, and attaching them on the sides of your W kayak would make it less easy to paddle. Therefore, we recommend using XL flotation modules only in cases where they are required.

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W kayak transom motor mount

Model TMM 20 For motors featuring a 20″ long propeller shaft.

Kayak Compatibility: This W Kayak Transom Motor Mount fits W kayaks from the 500 and 502 series.

Motor Compatibility: The W Kayak Transom Motor Mount fits electric trolling motors, and outboard gas motors up to 2hp. We recommend outfitting the motor with a long, articulated tiller extension that enables the driver to steer from a position that’s closer to the middle of the cockpit, rather than from its rear. Important: This model of W Kayak Transom Motor Mount can take only a motor featuring a 20″ long shaft. A motor with a shaft shorter than 20″ would be useless for steering if mounted on it, since its propeller would turn in the space between the W kayak hulls, and not below them.

Material: The W Kayak Transom Motor Mount is crafted from 1″ thick Trex board.
Trex is an environmentally friendly, composite material made from recycled and reclaimed plastic, and reclaimed wood. No trees are cut down for the purpose of making Trex. This material is widely used as decking and railing material since it will not splinter, rot or deteriorate due to harsh weather or insects. Trex resists damage from moisture and sunlight, which makes it a better alternative to wood for this matter. Unlike wood, Trex requires no painting, coating or maintenance.

Dimensions: This W Kayak Transom Motor Mount is 4.25″ high and 22″ wide, and it weighs 6 lbs.

Attachment: This W Kayak Transom Motor Mount is easily attached to the W kayak by means of two bolts. We recommend attaching the W Kayak Transom Motor Mount as close as possible to the cockpit, in order to improve stability, access to the motor, control, and safety.

Attaching Instructions For This Motor Mount Model

1. Remove the bungee hooks from the cockpit rear
2. Place the W Kayak Transom Motor Mount on the deck, in the location where you’re going to attach it, preferably as seen in these images
3. Mark the position of the two holes, and remove the mount
4. Drill the two holes in the deck with a drill bit whose size is slightly bigger than the bolts’ 5/16 diameter.
5. Install the bungee hooks back in their place
6. Insert the bolts in the mount’s holes, put the mount in its place, and push the bolts down, into the hulls
7. Tighten the nuts with the metal part facing downward, to secure the mount in its place

The kayak’s plastic wall will get slightly squeezed between the mount’s horizontal plate and the nuts.

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