{"id":4566,"date":"2012-11-27T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=4566"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:35:05","slug":"my-diy-w-kayak-for-fishing-and-diving-by-berny-marsden-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/my-diy-w-kayak-for-fishing-and-diving-by-berny-marsden-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"My DIY Wavewalk Kayak For Fishing and Diving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berny Marsden lives in the United Kingdom (UK), and he likes to fish and dive. He needed a small boat that could be motorized, yet be lightweight and easy to transport, and most of all, as seaworthy as it gets, and extremely stable.<br \/>\nBerny chose the W kayak concept, contacted us with a few questions, and created his DIY version, which is spectacular, as you&#8217;ll see in the video below, in which Berny performs diving and deep water reentry from the side of his kayak&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4aZbYaQzwcY?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Says Berny:<br \/>\n-&#8220;I have a 4 hp outboard on loan from my brother in law. Unfortunately, I have hit a few snags with it. Although it appears to be in good order, it does not run smoothly and needs to have the choke partially turned on to tick over.<br \/>\nAlso, I think it may be a bit on the heavy side so I think I will look for a 2 hp motor instead.<br \/>\nAs a result of these problems, I&#8217;ve not had a chance to test the kayak properly under power and now the winter has set in so I may put it on ice until the spring.<br \/>\nOn the plus side, the tubular jointed construction is a great success and the craft is very rigid in the water.<br \/>\nCheers,<br \/>\nBerny&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berny Marsden lives in the United Kingdom (UK), and he likes to fish and dive. He needed a small boat that could be motorized, yet be lightweight and easy to transport, and most of all, as seaworthy as it gets, and extremely stable. Berny chose the W kayak concept, contacted us with a few questions, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/27\/my-diy-w-kayak-for-fishing-and-diving-by-berny-marsden-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My DIY Wavewalk Kayak For Fishing and Diving&#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-4566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566","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=4566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26112,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4566\/revisions\/26112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}