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foot propelled jet ski?
Any opinions on the feasibility of foot-operated water jet propulson for a small boat like a canoe or kayak? I was thinking of mounting twin water pumps on the (out)sides of the hull to suck water in the front of the pumps and squirt it out the back through a smaller diameter pipe to make a jet stream. The water pumps would be foot operated through levers and a pivot. Got the idea from reading a book on ancient Roman engineering. Could the legs and water jets produce enough propulsion to move the boat at, say, walking speed? I think a separate pump on each side, powered independently by the two legs, would allow the operator to steer the boat by pumping one harder than the other to turn. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ William R Watt National Capital FreeNet Ottawa's free community network homepage: www.ncf.ca/~ag384/top.htm warning: non-FreeNet email must have "notspam" in subject or it's returned |
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