Now this is an interesting concept.  Has anyone seen this?  Or even heard of it?  I thought this was a really interesting concept and design.  I doubt it tracks really well in the water, but the 360 idea is neat.  What do you think?  Do you think it is a practical alternative to a kayak or canoe?  It's a pretty steep price tag for something that does not have any accessories with it.

 

Watch and enjoy!

 

- Dale

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrE5o_x-1ak

It's really well engineered.  And it looks like they've added enough keel weight to keep it stable.   I've built a lot of ultra light one man boats:

I tried round designs a couple times for the obvious benefits, but I could never overcome that feeling of instability that was constantly there in a round boat.   In a conventional boat you have a front to back  axis that is reliably stable.. you know that the boat will only rock side to side... not front to back.  Your body learns to rely on that stability.  When you have a round shape waves can move you in any direction.   Whatever direction a wave comes from you are going to rock in that direction.

 

Hard to explain but it takes a lot of getting used ....  I stopped trying to build a round boat when  I realized that by the time I made it wide enough and deep enough to be stable it was much larger than a rectangular boat would ever need to be.     Another way to envision that is to imagine a rectangle with the corners cut off.  Those corner are exactly the best part of a boat... that's where your stability comes from.

There is another thread about the same "skiff".  Goes back two or three weeks if I'm not mistaken.

 

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/163334-check-this-thing-out/