Propulsion for human-powered boats occurs via rowing, and wind-powered ships use sails. Internal combustion-engined boats work in one of two ways. They can use a propeller or a jet drive. So what’s ...

For boats, a propeller used for propulsion can either interact with the water or the air through which the boat is moving. Both ... For human powered systems the efficiency must be as high as possible ...

Question: I have a question regarding a human-powered boat for duck hunting. I understand from the regulations that sails and motors can’t be used, but paddles and oars can. My boat has a prop ...

It also makes the boat less maneuverable as forward speed is required for the rudder to be effective. A steerable propeller would solve this problem at the expense of mechanical complexity. From: ...

Currently the world speed record for a human-powered watercraft is held by the Decavitator – a pedal-powered, propeller-driven hydrofoil built by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US.

While teams try to build a car that can break the sound barrier, other researchers are trying to break a more modest record – can a boat powered by human effort go faster than 20mph?

A-bloody-human-powered-boat, that’s what. Just when life couldn’t get any more exciting the TT racer rocks up in a specially-built boat along a 100-metre course to attempt yet another world ...

Students at the University of Warwick have announced their intention to build a human-powered submarine to compete at that highlight of the human-powered submarine events calendar, the European ...