{"id":6465,"date":"2013-09-07T18:19:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T23:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=6465"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:17:30","slug":"paddling-this-kayak-against-the-wind-is-easy-by-jeff-mcgovern-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/07\/paddling-this-kayak-against-the-wind-is-easy-by-jeff-mcgovern-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddling this W500 Kayak against the wind is easy (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By Jeff McGovern<\/h5>\n<p>The W500 goes into the wind much easier than any kayak or canoe I&#8217;ve used in the past. A steady good walking clip can be attained and kept up for as long as it takes to reach your destination.<br \/>\nWhen heading in there was another kayak I overtook on the way, a [tandem SOT fishing kayak] with two folks paddling. Didn&#8217;t start the camera until I was just about past them so I missed getting them on screen. I was up the ramp and to my truck before they made it to the camp. The W500 is very easy into the wind, it&#8217;s just a matter of keeping the strokes a little shorter and lower. Progress is easy and you&#8217;re not worn out at all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F6HLJzKTPYA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeff McGovern The W500 goes into the wind much easier than any kayak or canoe I&#8217;ve used in the past. A steady good walking clip can be attained and kept up for as long as it takes to reach your destination. When heading in there was another kayak I overtook on the way, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/07\/paddling-this-kayak-against-the-wind-is-easy-by-jeff-mcgovern-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paddling this W500 Kayak against the wind is easy (video)&#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-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","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=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26099,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions\/26099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}