{"id":19013,"date":"2018-04-13T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T02:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=19013"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:32:51","slug":"wavewalk-s4-motor-kayak-skiff-rescues-24-ft-boat-broken-down-offshore-and-tows-it-to-safe-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/wavewalk-s4-motor-kayak-skiff-rescues-24-ft-boat-broken-down-offshore-and-tows-it-to-safe-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wavewalk S4 motor kayak skiff rescues 24 ft boat broken down offshore, and tows it to safe harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By <a href=\"http:\/\/floridafishingkayaks.com\">Captain Larry Jarboe<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Key Largo, Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This evening, at the edge of sunset, I was driving the White Knight, my Wavewalk S4 workhorse that&#8217;s powered by a 9.8 HP Tohatsu outboard motor, and I spotted a couple people two handed waving from a 24&#8242; Grady White boat.<br \/>\nThey were broken down, offshore, and two other much bigger boats had passed them by.<\/p>\n<p>The Wavewalk S4 easily hip-towed them to safe harbor through the channel into the Garden Cove canal, for a safe landing.<br \/>\nThey are now home, with cold beers.<\/p>\n<p>This pic is none too good, as I am a better towboat operator than a photographer. But, bringing a Grady back to the dock with a kayak is a noteworthy accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>Soon, my motor will be flushed. The S4 stowed.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, a cold beer (or two) is in order.<\/p>\n<p>A nice way to start another Wavewalk weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Captain Larry Jarboe Key Largo, Florida This evening, at the edge of sunset, I was driving the White Knight, my Wavewalk S4 workhorse that&#8217;s powered by a 9.8 HP Tohatsu outboard motor, and I spotted a couple people two handed waving from a 24&#8242; Grady White boat. They were broken down, offshore, and two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/wavewalk-s4-motor-kayak-skiff-rescues-24-ft-boat-broken-down-offshore-and-tows-it-to-safe-harbor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wavewalk S4 motor kayak skiff rescues 24 ft boat broken down offshore, and tows it to safe harbor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":21804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013","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=19013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19014,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions\/19014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}