Non propeller propeller for boats.......from me.

[Ponce]

Well, I call it the "Ram-Impulsator" because you have to go at least at 5 MPH before it will work, but once is turned on the 5 MPH should become 15-20 MPH without any more energy.......will it work? it should, I made different models out of paper and test it in my mind and don't see why it should not work.

To me a regular propeller wastes to much power were mine is 100% plus......the plus come from the forward motion of the water itself and the "designed" of the new idea.......how? so sorry, that's part of my crazy idea, all that I can say is that the forward motion will "compress" the water (as in a RAM plane the air) which will help all the power be forced to the rear.

I don't know a damn thing about boats or propellers and things like this pops into my mind all the time, some of them I make a proto and some I don't because I know that it will take a third third party, the second party being what ever gave me the idea to start with, I cannot take the credit for them.

Also have a one man sub where only the head is encapsulated in a bubble and the rest of the body rest on the micro sub itself, it would be used for infiltration and could be programed to return to the mother ship on its own........if I was in CA I could make all that I think about but here in the middle of nowhere it is very hard to do anything.

Yours truly........crazy Ponce hahahahahahahah.

[zap]

Ponce you got way to much time on your hands ;D

[ShortJohnSilver]

You are talking about hydroplaning or surfing ... you create a wave, then surf on top of the created wave, which greatly reduces your friction and wetted surface area. Read up on sailboat design and you will come across it. Works differently at different speeds for different designs, one function has to do with length at water level (LWL).

Usually the maximum speed of a non-surfing boat is governed by a formula applied to LWL, which is 1.34 times the square root of the LWL. So a 36 foot long boat (displacement does not matter) has a max speed of 1.34 * 6 or a little more than 8 knots. Surfing allows you to overcome that.

See:

http://www.boatdesign.net/wiki/Hull_speed

and

http://www.solarnavigator.net/hull_speed.htm

It has been many years since I read up on this, so some of my terms may not be exactly right... but I think you get the gist of it.

[Fortyone]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetboat


Is this what your thinking of?

[General of Darkness]

Ponce,

My friend is the owner of http://www.essexboats.com/

If you can put something together we could probably build it. Also, we've been tinkering around the idea of creating a hydrogen high performance engine. Hell a boat sits in water, the damn fuel. Could be a HUGE financially.

PM me if you think you can put pen to paper.

FYI - Helped to design this boat and actually help build the plug with my own two hands. Good Times.

http://www.essexboats.com/images/showroom_fusion.jpg

[Ponce]

Zap? I do and I love it ;D

Silver? nope

Forty one? now way Jose.......they tried to place a hose down there to fight water fire with but they forgot that the whole thing would be pushed forward as the water went out.

General?......wowwwwwwww really nice boat......I cannot draw worth a damn but I can make something that would look what I want out of Coke cans hahahahahahahha, will see..... I would like to first make something that would actually work...in a boat about 2 feet long.......I made one for my "VibroSonic" idea that worked, it would not push the water out of the way but rather "disperse" the water......I wrote about this one before.

[StackerKen]

Jet skis use something called an "Impeller"

Here's pics

http://www.google.com/images?q=impeller&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=991&bih=630

[Ponce]

Thanks Ken, what I am looing at looks more like a turbine water pump use to create energy by water gravity, very interesting.