Back in pre-reform and even pre-perestroika times, on my birthday, one of my milestone dates, the management of the enterprise where I worked and my colleagues, knowing about my passionate hobby of small vessels (boats, motorboats, hydrofoils), gave me an outboard motor “Vikhr-30R”. I didn’t even dream of such a thing then: it cost a Read more…
Rowing oars allow for powerful strokes, but where the boat is heading is not visible – the rower sits with their back against the direction of movement. The propulsion system of the proposed design lacks this drawback – it is a pair of vertical hinged devices installed along the sides of the vessel. Externally, they Read more…
Our housewives, especially elderly ones, have long appreciated the shopping cart — a small two-wheeled cart with a bag attached to its frame, resembling a tourist backpack in shape. How many different purchases they carry on these carts, returning from the market or the store! It turned out that the small cart, whose official load Read more…
“Eureka” is a centerboard boat of simplified construction, designed for home building technology. The boat’s hull is wooden, lightweight, with a membrane-type skin. It consists of three built-up frames, a keel, and four stringers. The midship frame is reinforced, since the mast and centerboards are attached to it. The mast is made of duralumin tube Read more…
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…
