Key Open Waterbike modular component available soon
The customized Mitrpak drive, a key module of the Open Waterbike flex shaft propulsion system will be available from September at Marco Polo Boats.
Marco Polo Boats - New hulls for catamaran boats are available
May 21, 2010 -- Marco Polo Boats, Inc., of Troy, Michigan, USA, announces the availability of its 12 foot catamaran and trimaran hull kits beginning June 1, 2010.
Rick Willoughby releases V15 Design documentation
A document received from Rick Willoughby, the Australian engineer who designed the V series of top-performance pedal boats, is available for download from our website.
Lamar to develop Drela's flexible shaft
Lamar, the Italian firm that manufactured the Open Waterbike prototype 0, is developing a new drive unit based on the 'flexible shaft' concept
Marco Polo Boats waterbike transmission module availabe for testing
Marco Polo Boats, a manufacturer of small boats located in Troy, Michigan, offers for testing a transmission module for waterbikes
The Open Waterbike
We design, build and sell long-distance human-powered pedal boats.
They are very, very fast, among the fastest in the World. They are also safe, user-friendly, efficient.
We are not a firm. We are a community.
An innovation community.
We are designers and architects, manufacturer and assemblers, dealers and retailers, users and customers.
We all believe in the future of waterbikes: the Open Waterbike Project is before everything else a dream.
First 'Open Source' watercraft: an Open Architecture
All our waterbikes share the same architecture.
We share the technical knowledge necessary to enable our collaboration. And everybody gets a benefit from the collaboration.
This is the Open Waterbike Project. The first 'Open Source' attempt at creating high-performance human-powered vehicles. A collaborative effort for bringing to market the best waterbikes in the world in a new collaborative way.
Improving our knowledge, making business and having fun in the process.
If you are a manufacturer, a dealer, a designer, or if you are simply interested in waterbikes please contact us.
Our boat is faster then yours.
Our boat is faster than mine.