Boats

I love being on the water in one way or another - sailing, kayaking, canoeing, surfing, but I'm not tied to any single discipline and like the idea of a boat being adaptive. Here are some of my working concepts for on the water...

Canoe Sail
I like the idea of being able to make use of the wind when out in a canoe on the sea or a loch. Having googled extensively, I created the following sets of notes (click images to open corresponding documents):

So with this in mind, I've been working on my own ideas. Not developed yet, but here you go (click to enlarge):

Canoe Trolley

I've found it can be a bind having to cart heavy canoes and kayaks from the van to the waters edge, so have built a couple of trolleys. The first was made of an old gazebo frame and a couple of golf-trolley wheels we used to have on a go-kart as kids. It was effective, but not very transportable - good for Dalgety Bay, not for the van (click to enlarge).

So I've now built a second version - again using some bits of an old gazebo frame, but based on a golf trolley. It packs up to the space that a normal golf trolley would, and the wide tread means it floats well on wet sand, even with two or three boats stacked on top (click to enlarge):

Tension bands (bungees) on the frame keep poles attached within plastic connections. Trolley packs up to size of standard golf trolley, and can be stowed within kayak for easy transit.