what about this?

I'm not sure how much leeway you'd get with 0.42m draft on a 12m yacht?
We're shoal keel - 1.50m - on 12m and leeway is not brilliant :(
 
I note that the tender stowed into the cockpit is a direct crib of something Jack Knights (who else remembers him ? :) ) did in a much smaller boat on the IoW in the 1960s.

Apart from my historical whinge, I think it is a great concept, and 3.5KW is 4.7 hp, which is a Very Useful amount of power.

I do like that working platform at the sharp end; very sensible and practical - no leaning over the water with your feet at angle to your CofG.
 
I wouldn't think of it for so many reasons o so many levels. You'd really have to be fixated on early adoption of unproven technology to even consider it.
 
Ugly Bug !

would you not touch it with a barge pole

why?

I thought I had an ugly boat, but man, this was at the front of the queue when they were handing out the ugly pills!


PS: nothing wrong with green boats !
 
Interesting excerise though

it is great to see a bloke trying out all sorts of new ideas

and we will all need to come to terms with more solar panels everywhere, - on i=our houses, in our gardens, on our cars and yes on our boats

Dylan
 
dylanwinter said:
would you buy one

why?

would you not touch it with a barge pole

why?

http://hreko.com/


Dylan
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This looks like a play on the old single bow twin stern vehicle idea thats been kicking around for ages. The wetted surface area of this thing would mean you would need a hell of a blow to get it to go. If we are going to consider things like this lets accept the fact that a multihull is just so much better.
 
dylanwinter said:
it is great to see a bloke trying out all sorts of new ideas

and we will all need to come to terms with more solar panels everywhere, - on i=our houses, in our gardens, on our cars and yes on our boats

Dylan
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No, maybe today's rumours that govt is re-thinking wind turbines will be the turning point on the road to recognition that blind alleys should be avoided! Pity we have to live with the follys for the next 20 years or so and hope that the announcement of Hitachi taking over some of the nuclear capacity is a sign that sanity is returning to energy policy.
 
Well, its a lot of new concepts or re-thinking of older ones in one boat. I look forward with interest to the planned prototype and also progress with the individual ideas shown.
 
Tranona said:
No, maybe today's rumours that govt is re-thinking wind turbines will be the turning point on the road to recognition that blind alleys should be avoided! Pity we have to live with the follys for the next 20 years or so and hope that the announcement of Hitachi taking over some of the nuclear capacity is a sign that sanity is returning to energy policy.
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I agree. I'm not keen on nuclear but really can't see any alternative. There simply isn't enough wind/sun and its not blowing/shining when you want it.
 
No, for three reasons.

1. It's close to the ugliest boat I've ever seen.
2. I can't believe it'll go to windward with no proper keel/daggerboards.
3. There's simply too much new technology in one package. Windows Vista, anyone?
 
Looks a total joke.
Solar panels at a couple of HP will do not much for propulsion.
A poor AVS and reliance on water ballast means it is probably quite easy to capsize downwind in waves. Half-way multihulls are not new, they are a pretty much a dead end that has been explored.
 
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