{"id":16442,"date":"2017-04-21T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=16442"},"modified":"2017-04-21T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:03:06","slug":"first-images-of-s4-hull-and-assembled-test-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/21\/first-images-of-s4-hull-and-assembled-test-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"First images of S4 hull and assembled test unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today our molders ‘broke in’ the Teflon of the S4 mold.
\nThey molded a few hulls from low grade material, and assembled a mock S4 to see that everything works well.
\nAnd it does: The mold works perfectly, the S4 parts fit together nicely, and everything is cool. We did it!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

We’ll start shipping S4 orders next week.<\/p>\n

Here are some first images of the assembled test unit – Note that the molders didn’t bother to apply the W logo to this test part, or trim it along the parting line and cockpit opening, because next week they’ll send it the grinder.<\/p>\n

Note that when mounted on an actual S4 boat, the mounting plate will be attached to the rear end of the cockpit by means of two 3\/8″ bolts.<\/p>\n

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First S4 twin-hull (test unit) sits in Wavewalk’s assembly area. The actual S4 product will feature a W logo on each side of the stand-up casting platfrom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View from a rear angle. The rear carry handles and mounting plate are visible, and the front saddle bracket can be perceived too, with a little effort.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Front view with the casting platform and front carry handles. The rear saddle bracket is visible, and so is the mounting plate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rear view with the rear carry handles, the mounting plate that fits perfectly inside the molded-in mount, and the front saddle bracket that’s barely visible.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today our molders ‘broke in’ the Teflon of the S4 mold. They molded a few hulls from low grade material, and assembled a mock S4 to see that everything works well. And it does: The mold works perfectly, the S4 parts fit together nicely, and everything is cool. We did it!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 We’ll start shipping … Continue reading “First images of S4 hull and assembled test unit”<\/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-16442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442","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=16442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16454,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16442\/revisions\/16454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}