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bufferoverflow · 2020-11-14 14:12:12

Hydrofoils is another way.

KennyBlanken | karma 4695 | avg karma 1.59 · | 2022-05-23 12:05:57

Or you can just use hydrofoils, which are an established, proven technology and have been for half a century.

deepsun | karma 3058 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2022-07-20 20:59:14

It's also easier and more practical to just float. With hydrofoils. But someone already doing that commercially, bummer.

bilsbie | karma 6199 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2023-11-12 10:35:10

Hydrofoils!

villgax | karma 976 | avg karma 0.98 · | 2021-08-09 09:44:58

Is there an equivalent for water/hydrofoils maybe?

lwansbrough | karma 5115 | avg karma 5.38 · | 2021-06-21 22:08:44+00:00

This idea is sort of being explored already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itbwXMMkBQw

There's other ways of doing this too. Rolling a ball up a hill, inflating a balloon under water, etc.

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Shorel | karma 3674 | avg karma 1.11 · | 2019-02-08 14:52:31

Just use a flatboat.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2014-12-26 13:24:04+00:00

That's a neat trick but it requires a lot of underwater stuff that can break and will to some extent defeat the original purpose (speed).

pcardoso | karma 519 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2021-10-11 16:26:34

A local company does this, but they are intended to be mostly stationary.

https://www.waterlilyboats.com

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twic | karma 21889 | avg karma 3.14 · | 2020-01-08 19:10:13

How about instead of pushing water up into the air, you pulled air down into the water. Build a big floating object at sea and drag it down into the water with a cable attached to a motor/generator.

8note | karma 4988 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2021-03-05 19:41:08+00:00

Or if it's got a hydrofoil. Those are also flying, just in water

dragonwriter | karma 118260 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2023-10-08 11:40:54

Hydrofoils don't lift entirely out of the water.

_0lk8 | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2020-09-08 13:59:33

Video of the actual research, showing the knotted vortex using their exotic hydrofoils: https://youtu.be/Ja886GtHlcE?t=8

patall | karma 1529 | avg karma 2.42 · | 2023-08-01 17:08:39

You are obviously joking but still, give foiling (as in pump foiling, wing foiling or eFoil) a try. It's not the same but the closest you can get, at least within 3 feet over a water surface (which makes crashing a lot more benign)

gosub100 | karma 714 | avg karma 0.76 · | 2024-05-21 14:36:55

I've seen the video. They drop an anchor and attach it to shore with a chain.

rwhitman | karma 3529 | avg karma 3.46 · | 2016-06-01 01:54:37

I recently got sucked up watching videos of this on YouTube. From what I can tell they just run them at top speed directly onto the beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kDbwE7mFck

sgtnoodle | karma 3156 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2021-02-20 09:12:27+00:00

You can create pontoons by circling over the same spot repeatedly. It's like you're concentrating more mass into the same area but reducing the density!

https://ibb.co/VmXShfY

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jrwoodruff | karma 2925 | avg karma 5.27 · | 2021-05-11 16:02:46

I don't think you -could- wakeboard behind this, right? The whole point of wakeboard boats is to displace as much water as possible in a controlled way. Skiing would be interesting though.

astrange | karma 14132 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2024-06-23 23:05:24

One way to do it in this case would be to lower it on a rope instead of just dropping it. But maybe guidance fins would work too.

ch4s3 | karma 8583 | avg karma 2.43 · | 2015-04-14 14:58:15

Float them down a river.

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