“When you live on the shore of a large reservoir with a picturesque coast, it is a sin to spend vacation in foreign lands. Especially attractive the summer vacation on the water. Of course, it is necessary to have some kind of flotation device. In our family, for example, there is a cabin boat with two powerful motors, which for many years we proceeded Rybinsk reservoir up and down. Do I need to tell you what a pleasure and what impressions we receive from these trips?
In recent years, more and more difficult to find untrodden place, even in the Northern Russian province, for collecting berries, mushrooms and, of course, hunting. The most attractive place for recreation usually found along the banks of small rivers, lakes and canals between them. But you must have at least a boat. To this end, I bought from one of the provincial craftsmen great homemade fiberglass hull of a small boat with an outboard motor “Whirlwind”. To bind to its Parking place, and free to travel with him, decided to make the boat light, strong, with good patency of the trailer to the car (at that time I was “Moskvich-2140”). And, besides, he was supposed to be universal, that is to have a detachable body for transportation of any goods from the house to the cottage and back.
In the late 70-ies in the press, especially in the journal “modelist-Konstruktor”, wrote a lot about velomobiles. Was presented designs of various authors. Some argued that a new form of transport, which in the future will press not only a bike but a car. However, nothing happened. Why? A simple answer to this question is difficult. Will only Express some thoughts.
The propeller, or, as at the dawn of aviation, the propeller is experiencing a rebirth. The reason is the emergence of daltelecom and motor paragliders with very advanced rotor settings. The pilots quickly learned that they can be used in ground form.
