I knew it was only a matter of time. The Hobie Mirage Drive has so many benefits over conventional pedal-driven propulsion systems, somebody would figure out a way to install it in a boat other than a Hobie kayak.
Let’s call these hypothetical folks “Mirage Hackers”.
Wooden Widget produces innovative dinghy designs, “easy to build, easy to stow.” Their Deckster is a hard dinghy with a hole in the middle designed to allow it to be stowed around the mast of even small cruising sailboats.
A hole in the middle, eh? Could that hole, perchance, be configured in such a way that it could accommodate a Hobie Mirage Drive unit? Yes, it could.
Clever!
Thanks to Boat Bits for telling us about this.
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Mirage Hacking is a good term. I’ve built one hull specifically for the Mirage drive: http://mackhorton.com/Strider%20build/Ripple_build.htm and I’m building the next one which has a more refined hull shape.
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