Boat R&D

Todhunter · Post by **Todhunter** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 12:16 pm

Saw lots of prototype boats at ALF this weekend!

Yellow, purple, and white L'Edge's. A shortened L'Edge. A L'Edgeli (not sure what that was...L'Edge light maybe?). A narrowed and shortened Octane 91, a new Blackfly playboat. Exciting times for plastic open boats!

Sir Adam · Post by **Sir Adam** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:08 pm

Any pictures?

Todhunter · Post by **Todhunter** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:21 pm

I didn't get any, but I'm sure someone did. Oh yeah, forgot to mention Nathan Zumwalt's new prototype he was paddling.

horizongfx · Post by **horizongfx** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:51 pm

New Boat Prototype by Nathan Zumwalt !!

horizongfx · Post by **horizongfx** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:56 pm

Can one of you admins add this to the Boat Museum ?

Sir Adam · Post by **Sir Adam** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:16 pm

I'm guessing not great primary stability, but it IS likely faster than some of the other short boat designs out there

horizongfx · Post by **horizongfx** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:33 pm

True, But its real easy to dump !

Sir Adam · Post by **Sir Adam** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:46 pm

Dump? I figured it would roll pretty easy!

horizongfx · Post by **horizongfx** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:49 pm

Both ways

Sir Adam · Post by **Sir Adam** » Mon Mar 11, 2013 4:54 pm

If you decided to put a pump in that thing it would already have a through-the-hull hole drilled (and reinforced). Unfortunately I highly doubt it is fast enough for a "self bailer" like flat water race boats have installed occasionally....

Great to see someone out there having fun and making everyone smile.

Silent Bob · Post by **Silent Bob** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:35 am

B-1? er, sorry: OB-1...

I'm embarrassed to say, I was sitting at work the other day looking at a stack of blue barrels and having the same Idea.

ice-breaker · Post by **ice-breaker** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:16 pm

How hard would it be to do a "barrel roll" in that thing?

arhdc · Post by **arhdc** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:57 pm

According to Nathan, very hard to roll back up and even harder to stay there. Overall, very impressive that he was able to finish the OUT race in it at all.

Next we're thinking ad building a tandem

horizongfx · Post by **horizongfx** » Fri Mar 15, 2013 8:23 pm

L'barrel....

Shep · Post by **Shep** » Sat Mar 16, 2013 12:15 pm

Hmmm...
L'Edge-> Option+Ion ->Force -> L'Barrell

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