{"id":15504,"date":"2016-12-03T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T19:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=15504"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T20:37:46","slug":"paddling-and-sailing-the-great-lakes-with-my-wavewalk-700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/03\/paddling-and-sailing-the-great-lakes-with-my-wavewalk-700\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddling and sailing the Great Lakes with my Wavewalk 700"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Forrest Henry<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Everything is fine. Only been able to use the kayak for a few hours, but love it.<br \/>\nI also sailed the kayak for a while using the Wind Paddle sail. Looking forward to spring!!<\/p>\n<p>I finished the spray skirt this morning. The driveway marker was too stiff, so I used a fiberglass flat strip that was part of a canopy for my rope hammock. The canvas lays on my lap when I sit in the center of the kayak.<br \/>\nI also attached a piece of lexan with velcro to the back of the kayak to use as a table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15505\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-2-1024.jpg\" alt=\"wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-2-1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-2-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-2-1024-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-2-1024-640x355.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-2-1024-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15506\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-3-1024.jpg\" alt=\"wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-3-1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-3-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-3-1024-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-3-1024-640x355.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-3-1024-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15508\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-1024.jpg\" alt=\"wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-1024-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-1024-640x355.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-spray-skirt-1024-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15509\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-wheel-cart-1024.jpg\" alt=\"wavewalk-700-kayak-with-wheel-cart-1024\" width=\"1024\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-wheel-cart-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-wheel-cart-1024-200x111.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-wheel-cart-1024-640x355.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Wavewalk-700-kayak-with-wheel-cart-1024-768x426.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for a cart I am using a modified Magnus cart from paddlelogic. When the off-the-shelf Magnus did not fit, Dave, the owner, was very accommodating and made arms that are 3 inches longer and a wider axle.<\/p>\n<p>No sailing pictures yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Forrest Henry Michigan Everything is fine. Only been able to use the kayak for a few hours, but love it. I also sailed the kayak for a while using the Wind Paddle sail. Looking forward to spring!! I finished the spray skirt this morning. The driveway marker was too stiff, so I used a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/03\/paddling-and-sailing-the-great-lakes-with-my-wavewalk-700\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paddling and sailing the Great Lakes with my Wavewalk 700&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26185,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions\/26185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}