{"id":25386,"date":"2023-11-28T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=25386"},"modified":"2023-11-28T18:47:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:47:28","slug":"we-love-paddling-our-wavewalk-kayak-its-very-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/28\/we-love-paddling-our-wavewalk-kayak-its-very-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"We love paddling our Wavewalk kayak, it&#8217;s very stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By Michael Bailey<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We bought our Wavewalk 700 kayak skiff used. My wife and I live near Crystal river, and we go paddling there, and watching manatees. We love our Wavewalk kayak, it&#8217;s very stable and comfortable.<br \/>\nI bought a new 2.5 HP Yamaha outboard gas motor with a 20 inch shaft at our local Yamaha dealership, and I made a transom motor mount for it, based on Wavewalk&#8217;s design &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25400 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff-2.jpg\" alt=\"transom motor mount for kayak skiff \" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff-2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff-2-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff-2-150x200.jpg 150w\" 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=\"aligncenter wp-image-25401 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff.jpg\" alt=\"transom motor mount for kayak skiff\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/transom-motor-mount-for-kayak-skiff-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25388 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/W720-kayak-skiff-FL.jpg\" alt=\"W720 kayak skiff FL\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/W720-kayak-skiff-FL.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/W720-kayak-skiff-FL-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25389\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kayak-skiff-FL.jpg\" alt=\"kayak skiff FL\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kayak-skiff-FL.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kayak-skiff-FL-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kayak-skiff-FL-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kayak-skiff-FL-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Bailey Florida We bought our Wavewalk 700 kayak skiff used. My wife and I live near Crystal river, and we go paddling there, and watching manatees. We love our Wavewalk kayak, it&#8217;s very stable and comfortable. I bought a new 2.5 HP Yamaha outboard gas motor with a 20 inch shaft at our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/28\/we-love-paddling-our-wavewalk-kayak-its-very-stable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We love paddling our Wavewalk kayak, it&#8217;s very stable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":25387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25386","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\/25386","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=25386"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25403,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25386\/revisions\/25403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}