This, you've got to see.

[Roger Long]

Now, I've seen just about everything in boating!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9wD2cLYis&feature=player_embedded#at=134

 

[Slim pickins]

Now that is cabin fever at it's best. I kept waiting for a power line.

 

[Don12364]

Brakes??????

 

[Kermit]

Looks like a great idea for the newest thing in hybrid technology. Put a motor on it for upwind sailing and you could go just about anywhere. Now about those pesky power lines... oh, I got it! Do like a trolley and tap into them. There you go!

Kermit

 

[Dave D]

maybe we can use some stimulus money to pay to have all power line crossings placed underground. This could be part of the Green Economy! We'd just have to build roads a lot wider to allow tacking

 

[Lee Thompson]

wonder how that will work with my h27

 

[jfmid]

I love how they dumped the wind at the stop light by letting the boom go out. You could clearly see the "brake lights" on the trailer working. Simply awesome. Where there's a will there's a way.

 

[inarathree]

Why are they all bundled up at the beach like that?

 

[rpell1@msn.com]

i Love It !!!!!!

 

[All U Get]

Windwagon Smith, hero of Kansas.
All U Get

 

[Witzend]

This is a hoax, sail pressure is non-existence.

 

[Kermit]

This is a hoax, sail pressure is non-existence.

I noticed the same thing. But who cares? Great concept.

 

[Roger Long]

This is a hoax, sail pressure is non-existence.

Damn. I think you're right. I watched it first in the little Facebook window where I first saw it. Looking at it on Youtube, the sails do look like a boat motoring with it's sails up. I think I caught a peek at a box underneath which could hold a motor and batteries. I also notice that the cameraman frames carefully not to show under the hull in close up shots.

 

[jimmyb]

This is a hoax, sail pressure is non-existence.

GOOD CATCH!

its obvious once you are looking for it. like a good majic trick the whole novelty of it distracted from the reality.

jimmyb

 

[jimmcgee]

I don't care if there is a motor underneath. This is great!!!

 

[kloudie1]

HEY ! That is the single best application of electric power that I have seen yet !! A real Hybrid !! Would let ya sell the truck and just drive the trailer to the ramp !! I love it !

 

[AXEL]

This is not a hoax. These Rudski's are crazy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aGN4Zp_I_w

 

[soling42]

So I went to the link, cute vid but my antivirus software went berserk!!!! NEVER link to eastern European sites. Everyone that has viewed this needs to quickly shut off your internet connection and reformat their hard drives because that attached virus is a nasty one!!








or maybe it's just April fools day and I gotcha like those ingenious Ruskies got anyone who believes this video is real although I'd love to try it
Have a good one.......

 

[Old Skool Neil]

Do I see the Chernobyl reactor in the background at about 26 seconds in?

 

[chp]

With the way fuel prices are going this my be our future. Can you see a transport truck with sails?