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The Thorbergs In A Tandem Kayaking Trip In Lake Superior, Minnesota

Gary Thorberg and his wife went on a beautiful tandem kayaking trip in lake Superior.
Gary tells that launching their W500 was easy, and so were paddling and beaching in those little beaches.
This wasn’t a typical kayak fishing trip, but rather a long kayak trip in tandem, in which the W500 performed as a tandem touring kayak, or as an expedition kayak, due to its extended carrying capacity.
The W500 fit easily on Gary’s pickup truck bed. Continue reading

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‘First Impressions’ W Kayak Review, By Sam Wire & Sons, California

I have two sons, one 10 and one 8. I put one of them on one end of the cabin, myself in the middle, and the other son on the other end of the cabin. The one sitting behind me faces the opposite direction so he can fish out the back of the boat. When we weren’t casting into the weed beds, we were trolling around the lake. I was the trolling motor and my kids each would put a pole in the water on opposite sides of the boat. This boat is just roomy enough for me to fit myself and the two kids in the boat so we can all go fishing at once. It is incredibly stable. Continue reading

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Captain Shiley – The World’s Youngest Kayaker, Massachusetts

Meet Captain Shiley, the two year old commander of a W500 kayak navigating the mighty lake Massapoag (meaning ‘Great Waters’). Captain Shiley tells the crew -”Let’s go here!”, and then -”Let’s go there!”, and sometimes they obey her orders… Although she’s the boss, commanding a crew of 1-2 paddlers, Captain Shiley doesn’t hesitate to grab a paddle, and paddle like everybody else on board. The crew loves Captain Shiley, and they’ll follow her everywhere she goes! Continue reading

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Boyd’s W Kayak Transportation Wheels – Ontario, Canada

Boyd and Sandy Smith, from Ontario, Canada, use their W500 kayak extensively, and needed a solution for transporting it to the water and back from it.
Boyd salvaged a pair of wheels from an broken golf cart, got some 2×2 wood and $10 of hardware, and created his version of kayak trolley, which serves the purpose perfectly. Continue reading

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Boyd and Sandy Smith in Tandem at the Grand River Canoe and Kayak Festival, Ontario, Canada

It was our maiden voyage in our new W500 kayak that we had just purchased from Mike Ratigan, at New York Yaks, in Rochester NY. The occasion was the “Day of 1000 Canoes”. We never did get a chance to … Continue reading

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