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2. Kayak technology: Pedal systems drive the future of paddling

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   Among the most surprising twists include companies that have kayak users actually ditching the paddle in favor of a leg-powered system. While more ... Kayak technology: Pedal systems drive the ...

3. Hobie Cat - Wikipedia

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   Hobie Alter sold the Hobie Cat Company to the Coleman Company in 1975. In 1982, Coast Catamaran (The official name of the Hobie Cat Company at that time) bought dinghy company Vagabond and its line of dinghy designs from Ron Holder and produced a series of dinghies (Hobie Hawk, Hobie Holder 12, Hobie Holder 14, Hobie Holder 17 & Hobie Holder 20) and monohulls in the 1980s and 1990s, including ...

4. Human-powered watercraft - Wikipedia

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   Pedals are attached to a crank and propelled in circles, or to a treadle and reciprocated, [citation needed] with the feet. The collected power is then transferred to the water with a paddle wheel, flippers, [8] [9] [10] or to the air or water with a propeller. Pedaled craft include: Amphibious cycle; Hydrocycle; Pedal-powered kayak [8] [9] [10]

5. Marine propulsion - Wikipedia

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   In 1997, Gregory S. Ketterman patented a propulsion method of oscillating flappers driven by pedals. [35] The Hobie company markets the propulsion method as the "MirageDrive pedal propulsion system" in its kayaks. [36]

6. Kayak - Wikipedia

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   The broader kayak categories today are 'sit-in' (SI), which is inspired mainly by traditional kayak forms, 'sit-on-top' (SOT), which evolved from paddle boards that were outfitted with footrests and a backrest, 'hybrid', which are essentially canoes featuring a narrower beam and a reduced free board enabling the paddler to propel them from the ...

7. Hobart Alter - Wikipedia

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   Hobart "Hobie" Laidlaw Alter (October 31, 1933 – March 29, 2014) was an American surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer, creator of the Hobie Cat catamarans, and founder of the Hobie company. He created the Hobie 33 ultralight-displacement sailboat and a mass-produced radio-controlled glider, the Hobie Hawk .