Project boat

[kingsebi]

There are amphibious camper vans around nowadays too.

Years ago on the French canals I saw an old camper van on a float with an outboard. Some people have imagination!

 

[kingsebi]

Did you guys know about Ben Carlin who with his wife took an amphibious jeep across the Atlantic in the fifties?

Ben Carlin - Wikipedia

 

[Wansworth]

Did you guys know about Ben Carlin who with his wife took an amphibious jeep across the Atlantic in the fifties?

Ben Carlin - Wikipedia

I did

 

[kingsebi]

Some people have some ideas

 

[Wansworth]

Some people have some ideas

After the war there could have been a different mentality to risk taking?

 

[kingsebi]

I never thought about that. Makes a lot of sense.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

After the war there could have been a different mentality to risk taking?

And quite a number of people who were addicted to adrenaline, and found ordinary life didn't provide their "fix".

 

[srm]

And quite a number of people who were addicted to adrenaline, and found ordinary life didn't provide their "fix".

Could be part of the reason behind the first Atlantic and round the world single handed races, thinking of some of the contestants' backgrounds.