World Human Powered Boat Record Broken 30
NtwoO writes "Tech junky Greg Kolodziejzyk broke the 24 hour world human powered boat record in his preparation to pedal across the Atlantic. Greg has a history of cool projects with impressive outcomes. His previous endeavor was a bicycle that was used to break the 24 hour cycling record for fully faired bicycles. Greg goes through a thorough design process when building his projects."
Re:Judging from the pictures (Score:3, Informative)
How would that thing handle waves? It seems like it wouldn't last quite so long in waters that aren't as calm as they are in Catfish Lake Montana.
That boat was purpose built for Catfish Lake. He has another one [google.com] for the Atlantic.
Re:What's a 'World Human Powered Boat' (Score:1, Informative)
"World (Human Powered Boat) Record Broken", "Human Powered Boat World Record Broken" or the slightly longer "World Record Broken for Human Powered Boat".
AwkwardTitle would be a suitable tag - not strictly incorrect, just a bit much to get your head around.
On the content of the post: According to this site [mnsu.edu], the shortest distance across the Atlantic is between Senegal and Brazil at 2,575 km. If he could keep up his rate of 245.16 km / 24 hours, he'd get across that distance in around 250 hours, or around 10.5 days. But he has to sleep sometime, unless stimulants aren't banned in such time trials, and even then, 10 days is a long haul for some serious physical work.