Something new and different

[starcrafttom]

https://www.facebook.com/InterestingVP/videos/710146285823840/ watch till the end.

 

[hardee]

Looks like an air ride seat for your whole boat. Might just be what I need for crossing Juna de Fuca. Cool ride, nice fun find. Thanks for sharing that one Tom.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

 

[ken35216]

That is cool!

 

[El and Bill]

Why not just read the tide tables and wind direction, and chug quietly
along at 5 knots and not worry about buying a high priced air ride? Patience and prudence!

 

[rogerbum]

Well that would get me out to the tuna faster and more comfortably on rough days!

 

[starcrafttom]

I think from watching the whole video that its just a test bed for a much larger ship. But it would have its uses in many places, plus its cool.

 

[starcrafttom]

Why not just read the tide tables and wind direction, and chug quietly
along at 5 knots and not worry about buying a high priced air ride? Patience and prudence

Though I do preach reading the charts and tides MOST of us still work for a living and cant chug around at 5 knots . Got to get out and back on someone else's schedule and we have to boat around that.

 

[Minnow]

That looks like the active suspension system that Bose has been working on for a long time. This cool video shows a car that can sense and jump over obstacles.
https://www.cnet.com/news/boses-amazing-car-suspension/

 

[Sea Wolf]

Very interesting, but limited to small and moderate chop, etc. Once the big ones start rolling, I'd rather be in a single, unified hull, and when possible, with a real displacement hull with a good sized, heavy keel, and not too much weight aloft:, e.g., an offshore sailboat, or a positive displacement trawler.

Joe. :teeth :thup

 

[starcrafttom]

One of the uses for this type of system would be the deliver and pick up of Port pilots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eutmXcwB8kA