Parallax wrote:

My sailboat has 3600 lbs of dead weight ballast. Seems like a real
waste to me.

So....Useless idea #3740

Make a boat with 60 lead acid batteries as ballast powering a high
efficiency 48 V motor. No diesel or gas, connect to shore power
overnight and you could have enough juice to go...........I dunno


Add a genset to juice it up at max tuned efficiency, hot water,
fresh water, all hooked up to my roto tiller techumse, and
centrifugal bilge pump (who needs a switch?), propellor drive for
the motor / generator, home made hydrogen, and tow a hydrogen gas
fuel tank spinnaker with surgical rubber tubing lines, too? Why
not build a hydrogen zeppelin sail with lawn chairs, steel
ladder, with a towed submarine keel with control foils and
cables, like a 'water kite?'

Sky surfing!

Terry K

Another story:

I have a friend who collects weird techno-surplus and sells it. He
bought several tons of lead bricks from a radioactive source
manufacturer that went out of business. Loaded it into the back of
his pickup and drove it to Tallahassee and parked on a hill. Of
course his parcking brake failed and the truck rolled about 10 feet
till it was stopped by a wall. There would have been no damage except
the entire load of lead bricks decided to slide through the cab. Not
sure what he told the insurance company.

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