Nautique-ebago 2300

[Rhode]

As bored as I have been this week on PN while worrying my little head off about whether some hoopty looking Tigger boat is going to sink when a Minnesota lake thaws this spring, I thought a more productive use of my time would be to design thee ultimate tow boat that could double as a cabin cruiser that at least sleeps 12 and pull both wakeboard and ski events.

What I've come up with so far is a boat that utilizes hover boat and Pacific Native Inslander canoe technology, such that the multi-deck tow boat I envision can be raised up and down from the water via high velocity air to create a completely no-wake experience for skiing or a calibrated wake for wakeboarding. To achieve maximum livable space on this boat, which I am dubbing the Nautique-ebago 2300, there would be an expandable and retractible awning-like main deck that was supported by port- and starboard-side inlfatable pontoons.

Beyond that, the only other things I'm seeing on this boat so far are a keg fridge, pool table, dart board, flat screen tv's everywhere, seat warmers, Broilmaster grill, Sub Zero fridge, chilled cup holders, my wife, kids and English Mastiff, and ballast pump-fed water beds (even for the dog) in the three state rooms (w/ separate baths) and galley and media room that have convertable seating/sleeping berths for friends.

Let me know if anyone else out there is feeling the love here and can add to the design for a Nautique-ebago 2300. I could definately use some help on a power plant; possibly one that runs on water.

Rhode

[ryanandrews]

RE: Nautique-ebago 2300

wow

[83sn2001]

Therapy, maybe?

[AbunDiga909]

Is there a joke behind this that I'm too young to get?

[jthooker]

Ultimate Tow Boat

Rhode, I think you’re on to something. Every year for the past 16 years we’ve driven our Winnebago down to Lake Cumberland for a week of houseboating and skiing. We pull our SN196 behind the motorhome and then pull it around the lake behind the houseboat. Too much pulling involved. Your idea solves that problem. Now if it would just navigate a slalom course at 34MPH…..
Abun… Yes, you’re probably too young to get it. It's what us “older” skiers need when we can’t decide whether to ski or take a nap on the front deck.

[pj]

RE: Ultimate Tow Boat

You just need one of those engines that seperates the hydrogen out of the water. Then you can use that for the fuel. I like all the options so far. We'll need to figure out how to get it to track straight for the slalom course while it's in the hover/slalom mode.

[ag4ever]

RE: Ultimate Tow Boat

Why not hydrofoil technology instead of hover. The air velocity to keep it hovering might cause some problems in the slalom course with keeping the buoyes in line, but if you use a foil, it can keep it tracking staright, and still have a very little wake.

Now propulsion, what are you going to use for propoulsion? A prop, water jet, air?

[FatBoy]

Re: Ultimate Tow Boat

Rhode, I think you’re on to something.

Maybe just leave the word "to" out.

[nautique95]

RE: Re: Ultimate Tow Boat

Maybe just leave the word "to" out.

Yellow_Flash_Colorz: Yellow_Flash_Colorz:

[SNMike]

RE: Re: Ultimate Tow Boat

Rhode, just where am I supposed to land my helicopter on your hallucination? Yellow_Flash_Colorz: JK!! Mike

[Rhode]

And blaring on the Nautique-ebago 2300's million watt, twenty two speaker sound system when FatBoy straps on his favorite knee board will be The Waterboys tripping the lights fantastic and longing for a fallen rock star...

I dreamed about Jimi Hendrix
he came back for one day
was born weepin' out of an egg
the mid-wife said
and straight away began to pray
with lifted head

He spent the early hours
communing with the morning stars
and then he came over to my house
where he tried out my guitar

He was young and black and beautiful
big eyed, perfect skin an'
he played my guitar like a lightning storm
like twirlin' feathers in the wind
he could make it sound like the end of the world
a fire, the flick of a knife
he could squeeze it slow and masterful
like the hand that brought the world to life

Together we strolled in sculptured gardens
passed the sleepy afternoon
maids were dartin' back and forth
from a window came a violin tune
angels, dressed as nurses toyed with playin' cards
looters sprung from prisons filled the yard

A yellow sun hung low and dawned,
and as it dipped
Jimi stood up straight, grinned
and shook his velvet hips

Callin' himself King Electric
in the evening he went wild
played on a dozen stages
in the clubs of New York -
lit the city end to end
wired it up, fired it up
scarved, bejewelled, long-legged, snake-limbed
athletic, driven, dangerous

He made all Manhattan shake
and every street and sidewalk quake
his stratocaster caused the mighty Empire State
to vibrate
his whammy bar caused shock-eyed punks from
Hackensack and Yonkers
raised on speed, metal and rap
to enter trance and levitate

He played Purple Haze and Pyramid,
Voodoo Child and Sin-E,
Up From the Skies and Storm Free
in King Tut's Wah-Wah hut

He did a forty-two minute
cosmic rise in future shocks
Star Spangled Banner
in the back of CBGB's

He stopped every clock in New York state
and every heart that heard him
and time itself was beaten and confused
and fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers

He played an encore at the Bitter End
a heartburst Little Wing
even the waiters cried
and then we fell outside
and in the dusty dawn of Bleeker street
a sweet rain fell
and Jimi died

Rhode

[ryanandrews]

wow

[Bob's2001]

How about trilithium crystal pulse engines?

[Rhode]

We should certainly explore the use of trilithium pulse crystal technology. Although such speed is not needed to pull water sport events, a Hyperdrive Motovator power plant would allow the Nautique-ebago 2300 to travel through hyperspace by projecting an image of the boat back into normal space and then teleporting it back into normal space.

Just think about it, you could take morning sets in NorCal's Delta, head to Florida at lunchtime to ride the famed cable at OWC, and then head back to the Left Coast for dusk-time pulls at Lake Shasta. Oh, and you could travel the world like the flash of light picking up and dropping off PN members and ride on their local waters.

My only concerns about utilizing trilithium pulse crystal technolody is that this type of transportation would create a disturbance of the hyperwave field barrier around the Nautique-ebago 2300, which separates the space-time continuum from the hyperspatial continuum. Also, trilithium pulse crystals give off radiation.

Rhode