Our town is located on a large “edge” of the huge West Siberian forest. The most beautiful places. Nature simply beckons to go hiking. And in the warm season, there are no problems with this, as they say. It’s just that most of the year the weather is cold and there is snow. And when Read more…
I want to share with readers my small devices that provide additional convenience when organizing a campfire at a rest stop during a weekend hike or journey through one’s native land. One of the common “campfire” problems is finding and preparing stakes for setting up a tent and forked sticks for a crossbar, as well Read more…
A boat with a rower moves much faster than a swimming person, even with fins, although the drag force is three or even four times greater. The efficiency of oars is higher than that of arms, and the “power” developed by a person in a boat is also higher… The strongest human muscles work — Read more…
I read in your magazine how frozen water columns can be heated with steam. I recalled another application of a similar device — for heating people in camping conditions: in a tent, a hut, under an awning on a boat — after all, you can’t light a fire inside. In this case, a portable steam Read more…
The advantages of compact folding boats are obvious, the disadvantages too. In one of the old issues of the “Modelist-Konstruktor” magazine (on the last page of the cover), photographs and a brief description of a folding trimaran by Leningrad shipbuilder V.A. Vakulenko were published. His trimaran consisted of three folding hulls arranged in a triangle Read more…
The tourist amphibious boat “Amfa” was built by Vitaly Gennadievich Lebedev 35 years ago. Over many years of operation, it naturally underwent several modernizations, but the original design ideas embedded in it have not become obsolete. “Amfa” still pleases its creator and his family, demonstrating excellent qualities both on water and on land. In the Read more…
At the time of making this simple watercraft, which is even difficult to name: “either a junk, or a boat, or a boat, or a raft,” I had a “Kazanka” — a spacious, sturdy boat. However, it was intended for sailing with an outboard motor. But what kind of fishing, tell me, in a quiet Read more…
Water skiing appeared relatively recently in our country and immediately gained numerous enthusiasts. A skier racing across the water surface always draws a large crowd of spectators on the shore. Watching how effortlessly and gracefully they perform dizzying turns, everyone involuntarily feels the desire to be in their place, if only for a moment. But Read more…
A small piece of steel cable, sheathed in a tubular plastic cover, enters a metal cylinder smaller than a hockey puck at its ends. This is a bicycle lock designed to prevent theft. It allows you to secure the bicycle to a post or something else, and in the absence of anything suitable—to lock the Read more…
I would like to tell the readers of the magazine about a catamaran whose movement was achieved using the Magnus effect. The Magnus effect consists in the fact that when a rotating body is flowed around by an air stream, a force is formed that is perpendicular to the direction of the stream. When a Read more…
