Liteboat - a new concept of rowing boat

[@markseifried3959]

I've owned a Lite Boat for over three years in Naples, Florida. I regularly row the 4.2 mile round trip on my Golden Gate Canal. I'm in my 50's. I'm a lifetime athlete. I bought the boat to reduce the loads on my legs during runs. I can truly say every time I get in my boat and start my first pull on the oars, I get excited and want to yell yahoo. I love to row! It's great during sunshine or rain. I get to see beautiful wildlife and amazing ski scapes. The last two times I rowed in my canal I saw a family of three otters. They were very cute. It only took me about eight times to get the stroke down. I only used KZbin videos for instruction. If you can't afford to buy one by yourself, you could organize a club and do shared use. Be unique and learn to row. Fraternally, mark

[@daves.9479]

It took 8 sessions to learn to row the boat efficiently? Seems like a lot. Had you never rowed a boat before?

[@craighuenergardt2198]

@@daves.9479 sculling takes some getting used to. There are a lot of proper positioning and motions including feathering the oars.

[@paulgentile1024]

Mark I'm 66 here in NYC. Also lifetime athlete.. I'm thinking about getting into rowing.. this looks like a hell of a workout..looks like fun too

[@germanborgesxrt]

Nice! thank you for all the time that you spend making this possible

[@jeffbooth7388]

Clever as hell! Love it!

[@mikemckernan7426]

I would certainly be interested if there was a vendor here in central Canada. For on alder rower like me (70), the enhanced stability afforded by the wider beam is attractive. But I agree with the anxiety a reviewer posted below about risk from 'following seas', and wonder why a small thwart across the beam, behind the footboards, couldn't be provided that rises slightly above the plane of the seatwell, to create at least some sort of rear 'bowsprit' to hold water back from the footwell...unless the surge forward at the catch simply empties the footwell on every stroke, and maintains a constant rearward trajectory for any onboard water...?

[@Kiwigd]

This looks great, I'd love to try one!

[@markseifried3959]

The cost of my boat about four years ago was $6500 plus the $500 oars. I believe there about two dealers in the USA. I had mine shipped for about $400. Their web sight will tell you about the dealer availability.

[@Less1leg2]

buy used sculling oars from a University of if possible a Rowing Club. Saves you... There are plenty of Oars if you look around. Concept2 out of Vermont is excellent to deal with.

[@alanaldpal950]

Looks nice but very similar in design to the Yole rowing boat ?

[@yokehuatgoh]

watching it, i feel an urge to rig a sail on that boat... ...it would become.. a hunter sailboat look-a-like..

[@JamieSmith-fz2mz]

Or a Melges 15 with an open transom.

[@ЮрийТепляков-х7я]

Need to add a rear view mirror.

[@sampeter3701]

Does this not look like the coastal rowing boats?

[@juno7893]

This will be great for lakes is Canada. Do you have reseller in Canada?

[@FrekeOne]

looks kool!

[@Interdiction]

I love to row but I despise going backwards . So I made a boat that uses a small shaft a flywheel and pedals . Now I can see where i am going

[@parislady1925]

I love the sleek design just wished they would design the oars to row forward. I can't stand not seeing where I am going. The reason I have stuck with canoe's all my life. I have seen some boats that row forward but some are bulky or jerk too much. This boat however is sleek and would fit the bill if the oars were reversed.

[@samuelwarshaw9480]

Paris Lady how does one skull or row forward?

[@6255805]

@@RooniTunes 全寬後視野?它實境到底如何?應該PO出來給大家看 !很難讓人相信 !

[@edwardtye4119]

You can get a longer, more powerful stroke if you face backwards. It is more effficient as well.

[@adambrickley1119]

@@samuelwarshaw9480 The only way to do that would be rowing machine type arms to a prop.

[@robertschwartz3675]

@@edwardtye4119 ROWVISTA by Rowonair solves that issue.

[@MrMiamilife]

Hi, I would like to know the cost of the boat. I am looking into buying a rowing boat.

[@happydays0220]

😎

[@hunyadimatyas8698]

Has anyone tried this

[@eidsydney]

can we paddle forward , ?

[@ballagh]

eid abrsh , only facing backwards?

[@quattro4468]

Iys already been done. Check the diy boat forums. Theres threads since 2003 with similar designs. It even looks a bit like the comercial gheenoe.

[@andrewbrown6522]

Looks like a tribal boat I can't remember the name of except they put the seat on the right direction. 😅

[@ancienttechnology7337]

Anyone know what current retail price in the US would be for one of these 1x light sport boats?

[@working2bselfsufficient724]

Heard $6500+$400 shipping if still wondering.

[@dannacht6827]

@@working2bselfsufficient724 Yikes. You can get a proper 1x for that price instead of this .5 of a canoe.

[@working2bselfsufficient724]

@@dannacht6827 yup

[@carmelpule6954]

This is a good boat for rivers where the water is still and with no waves. Unfortunately the open sea has some waves and so when one designs for the waves it is always better to have a rocker on the boat and my philosophy is that since any boat which is moving through the water will always create its own wave, the bows of the boat will dig into the wave. Also with a following sea when the wave attacks you from the back, the transom lifts and the bows dig into the the water. So my philosophy of designing boat is to make the bottom fit the wave and so I normally shape the rocker in the form of a shallow sine wave and the idea is that the bottom of the boat will fit into the wave. All rowing boat are normally displacement boats so there is a limiting speed depending on length and such is the speed of the wave one must fit into. The mathematics are rather easy to follow while the dynamics of sagging and hogging and broaching is something every one should look into. The above is a neat boat for ideal flat conditions but it could be very uncomfortable in two foot waves. Apart from that it is a convenient boat as it will never swamp and that is fine if the rower does not mind being soaked during a long journey.

[@loftalofta8423]

agreed, but if you like rowing, you are likely not to row in two feet waves unless forced to do so ! I row at sea a Virus skiff, and above 1 foot swell it gets tricky not to touch the water with your oars on the preparation move

[@kevindoyle4497]

So, maybe you should show us your brilliant design work?

[@niccoloparrino6433]

orrible.

[@hunyadimatyas8698]

Niccolò Parrino nice pun

[@marguskiis7711]

Doesn`t look very stable.

[@maplicant232]

Have you ever seen a normal skiff (1 person rowing boat)?

[@samuelwarshaw9480]

Maplicant unless I am thinking about a different thing, they are called Skulling boats, or just Skulls for short