{"id":23964,"date":"2021-05-17T09:18:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=23964"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:06:09","slug":"testing-my-s4-hunting-boat-with-a-dog-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/testing-my-s4-hunting-boat-with-a-dog-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing my S4 hunting boat with a dog platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By Austin Rykbost<\/h5>\n<p><strong>South Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did a kayaking trip with the most recent version of my front deck bolted on. Works great. The all welded aluminum set up is super light, probably only 15lbs. With the bottom of the deck being shimmed to have multiple points of constant on the S4, it is rock solid and you can walk around and stand on it with no issues, as well as grab the railing to pull the S4 around very easily.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">My next step will be to finish building my trailer for the S4. Then putting hydro turf on the front deck, some accessions to include lighting, and then I will work on getting a motor. I&#8217;m quite a ways from being done but the current setup is awesome for doing some paddling with gear on the front, and using it for camping. I had roughly 40lbs in that bag as well as a cooler with 6 drinks in it behind the bag, and also my wife as well. I paddled us by myself very easily even with the extra weight. The pontoon design helps a lot. I have found that the weight distribution can be a little tricky to get it tracking properly but once you figure out the best way to distribute the weight is is easily maneuvered by one person!<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23971 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat.jpeg\" alt=\"dog platform for S4 hunting boat\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-640x640.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23970 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-4.jpeg\" alt=\"dog platform for S4 hunting boat\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-4.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-4-640x640.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-4-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-4-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23969 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-3.jpeg\" alt=\"dog platform for S4 hunting boat\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-3.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-3-640x640.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-3-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-3-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23968 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-2.jpeg\" alt=\"dog platform for S4 hunting boat\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-2.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-2-640x640.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-2-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/dog-platform-from-S4-hunting-boat-2-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Austin Rykbost South Carolina Did a kayaking trip with the most recent version of my front deck bolted on. Works great. The all welded aluminum set up is super light, probably only 15lbs. With the bottom of the deck being shimmed to have multiple points of constant on the S4, it is rock solid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/testing-my-s4-hunting-boat-with-a-dog-platform\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Testing my S4 hunting boat with a dog platform&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":23965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23964","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\/23964","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=23964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23972,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23964\/revisions\/23972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}