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I was just tinkering in the shed and had an idea, I thought it'd be good to put it up and see if anyone has tried the idea and to see if it may be worth pursuing, if anyone else has any "brain fart" ideas the'll share it might work.
My idea:
-To come up with some design for a "airbag" ballon that could be deployed after a boat's had a flip over that would not only stop the vessel from sinking in a bad costly crash but also turn it back over so you can safely drive it back to shore in a minor incident. It seems a lot of hatch's have a little room in them if a device was fitted and some sort of remote water tight sliding door that'd allow a ballon to exit the boat via the roof, thus upon inflation would lift the boat off the water enough to get the weight under it and causing it to roll over upright. It could be designed so it used something like one of those little gas cylinders to inflate it and then back at shore simply push the ballon/float back in and replace the cylinder You'd need different size devices depending on the size and type of boat or better yet sold in kits so you can fit to suit the build and any extra weight gained could be lost by removing regular floatation. It could be deployed via the AUX channel on your radio or for those worried about the electronics being dead after a bad crash, it could come with some sort of seperate remote device.
I recon something like this would keep a lot people out of the water on annoying rescues, make things safer, the only reason to enter the water would be for a "dead" boat.
Go on, build it, make it one of the 100 rules you need to compete and sell em on here. Need those euro guy's.
Just a thought
My idea:
-To come up with some design for a "airbag" ballon that could be deployed after a boat's had a flip over that would not only stop the vessel from sinking in a bad costly crash but also turn it back over so you can safely drive it back to shore in a minor incident. It seems a lot of hatch's have a little room in them if a device was fitted and some sort of remote water tight sliding door that'd allow a ballon to exit the boat via the roof, thus upon inflation would lift the boat off the water enough to get the weight under it and causing it to roll over upright. It could be designed so it used something like one of those little gas cylinders to inflate it and then back at shore simply push the ballon/float back in and replace the cylinder You'd need different size devices depending on the size and type of boat or better yet sold in kits so you can fit to suit the build and any extra weight gained could be lost by removing regular floatation. It could be deployed via the AUX channel on your radio or for those worried about the electronics being dead after a bad crash, it could come with some sort of seperate remote device.
I recon something like this would keep a lot people out of the water on annoying rescues, make things safer, the only reason to enter the water would be for a "dead" boat.
Go on, build it, make it one of the 100 rules you need to compete and sell em on here. Need those euro guy's.
Just a thought
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