{"id":184,"date":"2008-11-02T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:07:01","slug":"tandem-fishing-kayak-for-big-paddlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/tandem-fishing-kayak-for-big-paddlers\/","title":{"rendered":"One Small Fishing Kayak &#8211; Two Big Paddlers in Tandem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Historic Perspective<\/h4>\n<p><em>This video from 2008 shows two big guys paddling a tiny W300 (Wavewalk&#8217;s first kayak model) in tandem. It&#8217;s funny to watch, because the poor kayak looks almost like a submarine<\/em> \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/exYI2zXTtio?si=3-MHNiqeUH5Hr5qU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This movie shows two large size adults paddling the 2008 Wavewalk kayak in tandem, on flat water.<br \/>\nThe bow paddler is 6&#8217;3&#8243; tall (190 cm), and weighs 245 lb. (111 kg), and the stern paddler is 6&#8242; tall (183), and weighs 195 lb. (88 kg). Their life jackets, clothes, shoes, paddles and gear add 30 lb. (14 kg). Total load: 470 lb. (213 kg). The estimated draft on the W300 seen in this video is about 11&#8243;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Perspective This video from 2008 shows two big guys paddling a tiny W300 (Wavewalk&#8217;s first kayak model) in tandem. It&#8217;s funny to watch, because the poor kayak looks almost like a submarine \ud83d\ude00 This movie shows two large size adults paddling the 2008 Wavewalk kayak in tandem, on flat water. The bow paddler is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/02\/tandem-fishing-kayak-for-big-paddlers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Small Fishing Kayak &#8211; Two Big Paddlers in Tandem&#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-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","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=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26068,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/26068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}