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10-22-2004, 10:01 PM
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Bicycle-Kayak
Now the way I usually think of this subject is based on real travelers I know of who use a combination of folding kayaks and folding bicycles to get around. Well this is a variation on the subject from the Port Townsend WA wood boat festival:
http://autocanoe.com/
Something the retired early wood worker can crank out in the wood shop.
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10-23-2004, 05:20 AM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Oh well - good old WA - I grew up in the area - home to the Longview Aerocar - anybody remember that one?
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10-23-2004, 05:27 AM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
That is quite amazing. My father has built several boats/kayaks. He's getting a little old for it now (80) but I'm going to send him that page. I have to print it out because he won't learn how to use the internet. Oh, well.
arrete
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10-23-2004, 01:49 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Damn thing doesnt fold.
:P
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10-23-2004, 02:05 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Quote:
Damn thing doesnt fold.
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I'm not so sure about that. I believe I see a seam down the middle of it.
There probably is has an inside lever that allows the boat to be split. This also comes in handy in case a high speed motor boat or yacht accidently rams into you.
MJ :-/
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10-23-2004, 02:16 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Hah! You hit me! But I will sink myself instead?
Besides, if you split it on the water, the printer would fall out!
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10-23-2004, 07:52 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Quote:
Hah! You hit me! But I will sink myself instead?
Besides, if you split it on the water, the printer would fall out!
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I guess you didn't read the fine print, :
each section is able to flow on its own keeping you and the printer nice and dry.
MJ
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10-23-2004, 09:34 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Once I was in Port Townsend and they had a whole fleet of "vehicles" like this. Everything had to be human powered and amphibious. Most of it was silly, but I gather that was the point.
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10-27-2004, 05:13 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Spring of 2003 we were at anchor near St Petersburg FL, perhaps 1/4 mile from shore, and up pedaled a strange contraption. I didn't get a picture at the time, but found this one -- it is the "dinghy" used aboard the sailboat Windigo III; the owner was a bicycle racer in years past.
http://www.ciekurzis.org/Coast%20Hop...your%20car.jpg
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
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10-27-2004, 06:21 PM
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Re: Bicycle-Kayak
Even has a little place behind the seat for the printer.
You hook up an auxilliary 110v generator to those pedals, you got somethin'...
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