Well this will be interesting:-
A Waikato company will attempt to use pedal power to cross Cook Strait.Manta5 launched the first hydrofoil back in 2017 and now they want to see the e-water bike become an endurance bike.It's been previously described very much like a plane with the propellers on the front of the wing.It also employs two carbon fibre hydrofoils similar in appearance and purpose to aerofoils used by airplanes, a similar technology that went into Team New Zealand's America's Cup yacht.
www.stuff.co.nz/national/123035351/pedal-over-the-paddle-attempting-to-cross-the-cook-strait-by-bike
saw one of these out the other week while we were yachting. dude was peddling like **** and only doing about 10kts through the water, was a calm day with minimal wind looked like hard work
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saw one of these out the other week while we were yachting. dude was peddling like **** and only doing about 10kts through the water, was a calm day with minimal wind looked like hard work
Was it a Manta? It is an e-bike and cruising > 10 knots is not hard to do in calm conditions. Swell, wind & current will make a Cook Strait crossing challenging. You would have to pick your day well.
