Comments on: Hand-Powered Motor Boat Gives Real Watersport Thrills

By: fred

fred — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:39:53 +0000

I understand you could achieve a nitrous oxide boost effect buy consuming a can of van de camps beans just before launching

By: Toronto

Toronto — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:51:40 +0000

That’s not actually a crank in the normal sense. She grips it and raises her hand up and down quite quickly. It’s a pity most of the mechanizm is obscured by the ‘leg guard.’

I understand some woman could hit 10 knots.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:09:27 +0000

Besides, the propeller is about 70% out of the water. Sheesh

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:05:42 +0000

She might go a little faster if she wasn’t dragging her lower legs and feet in the water like that. Also, if she’s running from the feds, she should throw the stash overboard to make the load a little lighter.

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:22:28 +0000

No wonder the two men in the background are laughing. All that furious cranking, and she’d still be going nowhere.

By: Baron Waste

Baron Waste — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:26:54 +0000

No, that's the most efficient way to use a crank, as the Luftwaffe discovered. Effective, in this context, is a different story.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:24:29 +0000

I’m not even sure that would work with the crank in that orientation. Horizontal with two cranks would have worked a LOT better.

By: Baron Waste

Baron Waste — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:00:26 +0000

There’s a reason that’s not a photograph: No way in the world could she or anyone going to crank fast enough to raise that kind of roostertail, no matter what kind of illegal/military benzedrine/whatever she’s taken. At best you’d do slightly better than paddling with your feet…

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:52:03 +0000

She looks worried that they won’t let her stop cranking.

By: revpj

revpj — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:30:59 +0000

Its all fun and games until someone gets their heel stuck in the propeller.