by Viktor Rakoczi
INGTROPOLIS
JET ENGINE
Every windsurf board can be motorized, specialized.
Adapt to your board a modular and scalable JetEngine as plug and play device. Or adapt it to your hydrofoil.
For that, replace your fin of the board by the JetEngine with its standardized deep tuttle box mounting.
The electrical power is sourced by a power box installed on the board or integrated in the board.
The JetEngine is of scalable and modular design, available as
single variant,
double variant,
windsurf board affixing or
windsurf hydrofoil affixing.
Addicted to Water & Air
To meet your needs, my self-defined requirements:
The system shall be of modular design.
The system shall be scalable.
The system shall be adaptable to a conventional windsurf board without the
need of modifying it.
The system shall be mountable to a windsurf board within 1 minute.
The system shall be safe in terms of human-body mechanical protection.
The system shall be safe in terms of human-body electrical protection.
The gliding performance of the system shall correspond to hydrofoiling speed range.
The system shall provide an electric motor with a maximum power load of 1kW.
The mass of the system shall not exceed 5000 gramms.
The system dimensions shall be maximum 600/500/160 mm (L/W/H).
The system shall withstand forces comparable to the kinematics of hydrofoiling.
The system shall provide a direct-driven propulsion to minimize maintenance.
In any operation use-case, the system shall be waterproof.
The engine of the system shall be thermally coupled to the ambient water.
...ok, and it shall look impressive.
Implemented and validated.
Windsurf-hydrofoil affixing
Adapt the JetEngine to a conventional hydrofoil without
the need of modifying it or having performance
limitations at foiling.
The cables can be installed within the continuous cast
profile or externally in an extra streamlined
thin profile. It`s up to you.
Power & Control Unit
A powerful power-source for the single-variant.
Take two for the double-variant or request one big.
High safety requirements are implemented, e.g. in terms
of roboustness, easy usability and water proofness.
Remote Control
Remote Control
(Photo taken after measuring the peak power load at
maximal static thust of the JetEngine)
A brief story of the origin of the JetEngine
As a small child, I always wanted to have a motorized floating and thought about how it could look like. I thought on a somehow catamaran looking-like boat, as big or as small I was at that age (10), sitting on it ... or thinking about a watercraft that looks like a jet plane and pulls me in water. A dream, but why not turn it into reality?
My passion is inventing and implementing. The project of the motorized windsurfing board was implemented, with which I now realized my childhood dream after decades. Here is a short story in pictures about it. You can see one of the first construction drawing, the production of a first prototype, the first driving test and finally an almost final state of the now completely CNC-manufactured components.
Media
Videos will be uploaded soon.