@nutbastard:

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Right.

Out2gtcha

The first picture in the setup guide cracks me up. I can just picture people's horrified faces watching somebody dragging that body-sized-and-shaped bag to the East River.

werk

@Out2gtcha:
this is a moran!

nutbastard

@Brock:
Whats a moran?

Out2gtcha

@ superbad: Yeah, liability won't cover it? That's why noone sells inflatable boats in america, OH WAI...

uber_mex

@ideaman2020: Ha! I'll be honest, I didn't even realize it until now. I did think the set up looked pretty weird though.

Benny Goldman

Little bit of wind and this thing would be upside down. I especially like how the person is show wearing clothing as if they will not be completly soaked trying to sail this. And hello how about a transom they think it won't fill up with water?

MrSmoofy

Would it have killed them to arrange the pictures left-to-right then top-to-bottom?

What are we? Chinese?

ideaman2020

I can see the merit behind this. I have an sit on top kayak and no safe way for transporting it so I just got an inflatable kayak that I can load in my trunk. Not as nice as a folder but it floats.

thechansen

@the_caveat: Follow the link, moran. At least junyo noticed before he posted.

I don't know. I think this would be fun to take up to my Dad's place to skip around in the bay. I wouldn't want to go any further than I do on an open-water kayak (certainly not out of sight of land), but fun for day stuff.

The sail also makes it better than a lot of other emergency life rafts I've seen.

Brock

@the_caveat: Apparently you've never been at the tiller, either. There's a daggerboard. Dinghys don't have keels.

ninjagin

Leave the city for Nature?!?! That's what Central Park is for!

N@tedog

A major design flaw: No keel. Clearly created by someone who's never been on the working part of the rudder.

the_caveat

Why to I have the Gilligan's Island theme running through my head now??

[www.gilligansisle.com]

Out2gtcha

@Southpawz: The backs of lots of sailboats are built that way. Typically the bottom is curved, the nose is deeper in the water than you'd think, and the orientation lifts the bottom edge of the back out of the water a little. Unless you're being chased by waves faster than you (in which case you're boned anyway) no water gets in.

junyo

@funkenstein:
Good idea.
Drowning is a much quicker than starving.

Lorne

I dunno. I've got a couple of small, and one fairly large lake 10 minutes from the house. No room to store a real boat, sail or otherwise. But this would be cool for throwing in the trunk and heading out on summer mornings. Or would be if it didn't look so paper mache-like. It doesn't look to have any sort of keel or even a hard chine (correct that, looked at the link, a hard keel and rudder), no integral flotation, and moving to the other side during a tack would be interesting.

junyo

Can someone explain how it doesn't sink if the back doesn't fold up to keep out water?

Southpawz

Where's the back?

C-more

I want one of these. Living in NY, if the sh*t were to hit the fan, everybody would be flooding the bridges, tunnels and roads out of the city. If you had one of these, you could sail down the river laughing at all the land lubbers getting eaten by zombies. In fact, they should make that the name of the product: "Escape the Zombie Apocalypse Boat"

funkenstein

This thing wouldn't smell bad at all after a stint in your average urban waterway.

SchruteBuck

Only a concept because no insurance company in the world will carry a liability policy big enough to cover your ass if you try to sell these.

superbad

Gilligan take this and get help.

DeadWriter

LOL

Buzzed

@nutbastard:

NOT NICE! But funny.

Out2gtcha

@ANoel:
of all the bizzare things that get blocked at work, urban dictionary is one of them.

so, did you see the new avatar i made for ya?
[farm4.static.flickr.com]

nutbastard

@uber_mex: This ain't an inflatable boat.

superbad

@nutbastard:
The word you may be looking for is MORASS.
[www.urbandictionary.com]
Definition #3.

ANoel

Being a sailboat racer, I typically dig boat designs with open sterns, but on something this size it's a recipe to get soaking wet. Actually, scratch that, something this size is going to get you soaking wet no matter what you do.

The weight limit is probably 150 lbs or less, I'm betting if my 270lbs ass jumps on there, it's going right to the bottom.

bpatten

Eesh. Didn't see the daggerboard in the pics provided.

What are they feeding the trolls now-a-days?

the_caveat

Anyone read any further?

"Urbanskiff is a oneman / woman sailing boat for city dwellers. It can be transported with public transported and is ready to set sail within a few moments. With a special technique, but common material, a light and stiff hull can be converted that allows sportsmanlike sailing.
A hot summers day with a light wind - why not go sailing in the park or lake? Travel with the train or bus, unpack and set sail. This is the urbanskiff, a foldable sailing boat. The heart of the urbanskiff is a carbon middle beam, which holds all important tools in a folded manner. The mast is turned into a vertical position in that the hull can be fully folded. Then the air chambers of the folded hull starts to fill with air through an air chamber system. The final tension force is achieved through a built in pump. At this stage you only need wind and the sailing can start!"

PUMP = AIR = INFLATABLE.

thebear91

@the_caveat: "What are they feeding the trolls now-a-days?"

Nautical dilettantes?

lefty-

@Southpawz: Fast boats don't need backs because the water is rushing by so fast it can't flood the cockpit. This boat on the other hand doesn't look fast.

Mammoth

Every new home in New Orleans should come with one of those.

Final

@thebear91: "Anyone read any further?"

We comment on blogs. You expect us to RTFA? No, that is too great a burden.

superbad

@nutbastard:
I did ButtNastard. I did.
The best part was the bird.
I'm flattered you'd spend so many seconds to do that,
and, well, the skill and creativity puts me in mind of Alexander Graham Bell's research on superfluous nipples... [scienceblogs.com]
Of course, Bell started out as a Scot and wound up in Canada for his more important work on the telephone, etc.
Interestingly, for his 11th birthday, his father acquiesced and allowed him to adopt the middle name "Graham" chosen out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a Canadian being treated by his father and boarder who had become a family friend.
And just so you know, I take no offense to your "Fuck Canada" because you do have a Canadian friend, and as you put it... "so i have racial immunity, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!".

ANoel