All Entries Tagged With: "boats"
Make The Ocean Your Living Room With The Electric Sofa Boat
Your living room’s a bit too cramped? Entertain guests in the biggest living room ever – the ocean – with the Sofa Boat, an electric-powered, floating watercraft with a couch on top.
Recently shown off at the Abu Dhabi Yacht Show, the unusual vessel is intended for ferrying people over short distances. So why is it in the yacht show? Because you can use it to carry guests from your luxury yacht to a party at George Clooney’s luxury yacht. Not that you know George Clooney or anything, but in case you did, you might as well drop by riding a floating, upholstered lounge.
The Sofa Boat is a floating 3.5m platform with a comfy-looking couch on top. Since it’s intended for the wealthy, it can’t be as bare as the one on the photo, of course. The commercial version will include a folding sun canopy covering the entire seating area, laptop [...]
Modular Tequila! Kayak Can Fit Inside Your Car
A modular kayak is an excellent idea for one obvious reason: breaking it apart makes it incredibly to transport. The Tequila!, however, takes the modular idea one step further, allowing you to add components that extend the boat to carry more people. Yep, it’s not only extremely portable, it’s extensible too.
Created by Swedisk kayak-makers Point65, the watercraft was built with the intent of making it easy to handle both in and out of the water. Since it’s able to collapse into three different parts, you won’t need a roofrack to transport it. Just clear the back of your vehicle, dump the components and off you go to the water. Even if you live in an apartment building, bringing it in and out is downright hassle-free.
The Tequila! was designed by Magnus De Brito and is currently one of seven finalists for the ISPO (International Trade Fair For Sports Equipment and Fashion) [...]
Zingy Is A Super Safe Two-Person Boat That’s Cute As A Button
Unlike cars or gadgets, boats aren’t exactly something most regular folks think about buying. Inventor Clayton Turney wants to change all that with the Zingy, a sea-capable, two-person boat that prides itself on accessibility.
Designed for novice boaters, it looks nothing more than a toy at first glance (like a real boat with the rest of its body hacked off). Don’t let the harmless appearance fool you. While small, it boasts excellent sea-keeping abilities, described as a “super safe, super solid craft designed to go wherever you go.”
The Zingy is a cute, little pocket boat, sized just enough to fit a pair of water bandits. Because of the compact body that looks only slightly bigger than a two-passenger jet ski, it’s easy to tow, making both transport and maintenance uncomplicated.
Its big selling point, however, is the expandable hull design, which allows it to be used as either a motorboat (it comes [...]
iREV Boat Takes The Party From The Shore To The Middle Of The Water
Why buy a kayak when you can score a floating picnic cottage? That’s right, you can’t justify it. So put that money away, save up a little more and look forward to scoring the Interactive Recreational Entertainment Vessel (iREV), a luxury party boat that’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen on water.
Shaped like a donut, it looks like an oversized bumper boat with a hanging giant umbrella. Up to ten passengers can plop down comfortably along the seated walls, congregating at the table and grill in the middle. You heard that right – there’s a low-fire charcoal grill right smack in the center.
The iREV operates with an electric outboard motor (your choice of between 2 to 5 hp), which can push it along the water for up to 10 hours. To have a real party, you can stock booze and food along the four storage bins, as well as opt to [...]
Yacht Express: So That’s How They Deliver Boats!
How do you deliver a boat from one country to another? As it turns out, you put them in an even bigger boat that makes the trip.
When it comes to taking boats across the continents, the float-on-float-off Yacht Express from Dockwise is the undisputed king and the largest of its kind. A semi-submersible, it sinks into the water in order to pick up two dozen or so yachts that it can carry across its deck. Once they reach the delivery spot, it submerges again to allow each watercraft to be driven off.
The large transatlantic delivery boat measures 686 feet long, with a beam that’s 106 feet high. Deck space for all the passenger boats (by that, we mean boats that act as the passenger) is 541 feet long and 102 feet wide. Balancing is accomplished by four main ballast pumps, while cargo handling is performed by a T-crane with [...]
