{"id":929,"date":"2010-08-06T08:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2010-08-06T08:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T22:05:42","slug":"seakayaker-magazine-report-on-ultralight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Seakayaker magazine report on Ultralight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 2010 issue of Seakayaker magazine there&#8217;s an interesting report on the Ultralight.\u00a0 The interesting thing is the extra speed they got from their kayak by adding simple streamlining the the shaft of the Ultralight.<\/p>\n<p>It makes a big improvement\u2014increasing the speed from 4.25 knots to 5.5 knots\u2014and just by adding a simple foil to the shaft. It follows a similar pattern the shape of the leg on other Torqeedo models and it begs the question of why didn&#8217;t Torqeedo do this already? Especially as it a feature of every other model.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you&#8217;ll want to read it yourself\u2014click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seakayakermag.com\/2010\/Aug10\/torqeedo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to go to this article on Seakayaker website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 2010 issue of Seakayaker magazine there&#8217;s an interesting report on the Ultralight.\u00a0 The interesting thing is the extra speed they got from their kayak by adding simple streamlining the the shaft of the Ultralight. It makes a big improvement\u2014increasing the speed from 4.25 knots to 5.5 knots\u2014and just by adding a simple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Seakayaker magazine report on Ultralight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-propulsion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}