{"id":17011,"date":"2017-06-15T11:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=17011"},"modified":"2017-09-25T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T20:51:09","slug":"wavewalk-s4-with-2-hp-honda-outboard-in-strong-wind-lake-simcoe-ontario-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/wavewalk-s4-with-2-hp-honda-outboard-in-strong-wind-lake-simcoe-ontario-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Wavewalk S4 with 2 HP Honda outboard in strong wind, lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Pyt Rotary<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ontario, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lake Simcoe is a 280 square mile lake in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>12km\/h [7 mph] with Honda 2Hp against wind of 24km\/h [15 mph]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjxG1EmZFy8?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=1\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lots of fun except my rocky mistake to not have enough gas with me.<br \/>\nI got excited and let the boat run for 15km straight into the lake and realize I am out of gas.<br \/>\nI paddled back half the distance and got gas from shore.<br \/>\nNow I know&#8230; From now on I will carry enough gas with me.<br \/>\nLuckily I paid with just one blister on my hand.<\/p>\n<p>I did come back at night and feel SUPER SAFE in it.<br \/>\nIt is a great, fantastic boat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17013\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/motorized-Wavewalk-S4-on-ake-Simcoe-Ontario-1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/motorized-Wavewalk-S4-on-ake-Simcoe-Ontario-1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/motorized-Wavewalk-S4-on-ake-Simcoe-Ontario-1024-200x100.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/motorized-Wavewalk-S4-on-ake-Simcoe-Ontario-1024-640x320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/motorized-Wavewalk-S4-on-ake-Simcoe-Ontario-1024-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(added comment) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The S4 is SUPER, SUPER, SUPER stable. It does not sway at all.<br \/>\nI have been in bigger boats with V shape hulls.<br \/>\nThose boats don&#8217;t have the same stability on the water as the S4. The waves hammer them straight in the teeth.<br \/>\nThe catamaran design cut the waves like a knife cuts through butter.<br \/>\nDefinitely there is room for more HP on the S4.<\/p>\n<p>It was my fist ever trip with a gas motor, I do use W500 with an electric motor but never played with gas before. Lots of fun. Now I can reach easily lots of my fishing spots.<br \/>\nRegards from Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>(added later) &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>After 7 years of tests I think I found the best way to store the rods on Wavewalk, at least for me.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge was in S4 where drilling on the back side where the gas engine reside is not much appealing to me.<br \/>\nSo what I did was to buy 2 Homer Tool boxes from Home depot $10 each and use the box to store dry different items at the tip of the S4.<br \/>\nThe end of the fishing rod where the reel is, rests on the box and the tip is secured on the upper side of the kayak with sticking Velcro (same Home Depot).<\/p>\n<p>I had some exist on water testing and I can carry easily 4,5 fishing rods in S4.<br \/>\nSince I like the concept I start to think how I can fit that in W500.<\/p>\n<p>I got 2 plastic rings from dollar stores (shower curtains rings) and secure them with a round screw inside the tips on back side under the transom. The handle of the rods rest inside the rings, the tip of the rods is secured by same sticking Velcro in front of W500. 2 rods can be stored easily inside a W500 this way.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am still in doubt to install the same rings in S4 as well since the setup is so successful for me in W500. I will still used the Tool boxes as storage (2L of gas, gloves, tackle, ropes, anchor).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?s=pyt+rotary&amp;searchsubmit=U\">More kayak fishing with Pyt in Canada\u00a0 \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pyt Rotary Ontario, Canada Lake Simcoe is a 280 square mile lake in Ontario. 12km\/h [7 mph] with Honda 2Hp against wind of 24km\/h [15 mph] Lots of fun except my rocky mistake to not have enough gas with me. I got excited and let the boat run for 15km straight into the lake &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/15\/wavewalk-s4-with-2-hp-honda-outboard-in-strong-wind-lake-simcoe-ontario-canada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wavewalk S4 with 2 HP Honda outboard in strong wind, lake Simcoe, Ontario, Canada&#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-17011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011","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=17011"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17819,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17011\/revisions\/17819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}