The world's fastest skate sail, 120 km/h, second link below.

ANDERS ANSAR'S  MAGAZINE ARTICLES FOR SALE (I am for the foreseeable future not giving any lectures) © 1997-2002 Anders Ansar. All rights reserved.

Start of man powered hydrofoil craft, third link below.

My articles have been published in some twenty countries. I am also presenting the article subjects as lectures with slides. Below you find some thirty subjects divided in these groups (These articles are for magazines, they can't be sent to individual readers. Minimum price US$ 1000):

• Ice sailing. The 120 km/h (75 mph) skate sail, American and Russian ice boats.
• Two man powered hydrofoil crafts: Now anyone can walk on water!
• Speed sailing on water and land.
• The 1950 ties big American cars are still rolling on Cuba.
• Russia: Odd pleasure boats and the Olympic Sailing Centre at the Black Sea.
• Asia: Traditional boats, mainly with sails, Chinese rivers. The river Nile Feluca.
• Boating and sailing in the future.
• Travel light - extreme gear. Three kilos (6.5 pounds) is enough in the tropics!
• Cuba: Going deep sea fishing sitting on a bus hose with flippers for propulsion.

The world's fastest skate sail, Ice-Wing, 120 km/h 75 mph. The extreme edge. More pictures in the links on my skate sailing page. Note. On request commercial users can receive some ten more pictures, and a little more on the perils of skate sailing, via Internet.

Ice-Wing, is a revolutionary design inspired by air plane technology with an incredible performance for its simplicity: It is as fast as ice boats.
Jagged ice walls and open water send adrenaline levels soaring. Long distance sailing on ice with invisible spots of too thin ice is deadly as Russian Roulette. Wings are crashed to pieces. Sailors wear life vests, ice prods, plus protection like hockey players. Extreme arctic climate, chill factor -50 degrees C.
Equipment is free. A 150 km/h wing is now tested. 200 km/h is possible. Skates 90 cm high have been tried. Racing has been organized for 100 years. National championships are sailed yearly.

Great variety of slides. Some 6000 words, edit to required size. As lecture: around 60 minutes, 60 slides.
 
 

The unique Russian ice yachts of S:t Petersburg (Former Leningrad). Note. On request commercial users can receive, via Internet, some more pictures.  Russia is the only country with a racing fleet of wing sail equipped ice boats, picture to the right. Also raced is the 2 men 15 sq. m international class from the 1930 ties. Newest is a 7 sq. m GRP yacht which was designed at the last years of the Soviet Union.

Varied slides from four visits to St. Petersburg. 1.600 words. As lecture: 60 minutes, 40 slides.
 
 

American ice sailing, new and vintage yachts, 230 km/h Note. On request commercial users can receive some more pictures via Internet.  The American Skeeter is a large, fast and refined ice boat with wing mast and fully battened sail. Also sailing in the US are restored gaff rigged vintage ice boats and skate sails.

3.000 words, pictures from several visits to the USA. As lecture: 60 minutes, 40 slides
 
 

Speed sailing. Where is the limit? 500 km/h or the sound barrier?  The ice boat, 230 km/h, is the world's fastest sailing craft. But aerodynamically is still very crude. If it is streamlined like a modern glider and adapted for sailing in really strong winds it can sail 500 km/h!

2.000 words, slides showing American and Russian ice boats, some with stiff wing sail. Sketch, right: 500 km/h ice yacht. As lecture: 60 minutes, 60 slides.
 

Now anyone can walk on water! Novel human powered hydrofoil craft. Note. On request commercial users can receive, via Internet, some more pictures.  A high tech Human Powered Hydrofoil craft has been developed in Sweden. It is obviously too spidery to support the rider by floating. The rider shoves off from the jetty and then propels it at up to ten knots by jumping on the craft's platform. One mistake and he takes a swim. The designer is planning a sprint version which may be able to beat the world record, 18.5 knots, for Human powered water crafts. 1800 words, slides. As lecture: 45 minutes, 30 slides.

Man powered two men hydrofoil canoe flies like an air plane A high tech man powered hydrofoil canoe has been developed in Sweden. It has a main foil under the two riders and a small foil at the back. Propulsion is by a propeller which the riders turn by bicycle cranks.   Controls are the same as on an air craft: roll, pitch and yaw. Top speed is around ten knots. The craft has competed successfully in several international events. 1500 words, slides. As lecture: 20 minutes, 15 slides.

MacQuarie Innovations World record attempts autumn 1998 at Sandy Point southern Australia This craft is a development of the Yellow Pages Endeavour which (August 2002) holds the world record at 46.52 knots. Many pictures of craft at speed, handling, assembling, details etc. No article written. As lecture 1 to 2 hours.

With steaming hydrofoils towards 60 knots. Which type of water sailing craft will first reach 150 km/h? Note. On request commercial users can receive, via Internet, some ten more pictures, with captions.  World speed record now is 46 knots, 85 km/h. The article discusses merits of different ways of sailing fast on water: Planing, with hydrofoil, big boat...  A craft pulled by a traction kite seems to have the best speed potential: Line connected low on the craft allows tremendous pull without any heeling moment. An important bonus is that at height the wind is stronger.

5.000 words, good collection of pictures: Australian record attempts autumn 98 (with the follower of record holder Yellow Pages Endeavor).  Fast, spectacular, odd and funny crafts from five Sail Speed Weeks in England. As Lecture: 60/90 minutes, 70 slides.
 
 

The flying 18 footers of Sydney Harbour Pictures from light and strong wind races, some 15 m/s, 30 knots. Plenty of capsizes. No article written. About 1 hour as lecture.

 

America's Cup for land yachts. 150 km/h on dry lakes in USA Note. On request commercial users can receive, via Internet, some more pictures.  70 yachts, 7 with stiff wing sails. Large yacht: 9 by 6 m. Extreme wing: 8 by .6 m! Novel yacht is pressed to ground by air foil plank. Yachts are not fully streamlined - a super yacht can sail 250 km/h.  4.500 words, good pictures. Sketch of The Super Yacht. As lecture: 60 minutes, 70 slides.

 

Sail board can recapture speed record with personal streamlining The sail board is aerodynamically very primitive as the sailor creates maximum drag being fully exposed the air stream. With a personal streamlining drag can be greatly reduced and the world speed record recaptured. Such streamlining has been built and tried on ice in Sweden. 1.000-2.000 words, a few pictures of streamlining. As lecture: 30 minutes, 15 slides.

Until the Cuban Revolution in 1959 the Cuban trade with the USA was brisk, rum and cigars were traded for American cars. Since the revolution the trade is zero. And now, 40 years later, the American cars are still rolling on Cuba and on the streets of Havana: Chevrolet Impala -59, the huge Buick -53, De Soto Fluid Drive -48 etc. The background of some of the pictures is magnificent buildings of Havana - giving the readers a bit of Havana sightseeing too.  1.500 words, including a small "Facts for visitors" section. As lecture: 30 minutes.

Russian boating: take-what-you-can-find and modify it!  S:t Petersburg pictures: Star boat (picture right) and Dragon converted to cruisers, life- and fishing boats converted to pleasure boats, one with tractor engine, home built motor boat with home built instruments (picture left).  1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 30 minutes, 20 slides.

 

Russian Olympic sailing centre on the Black Sea  The centre (picture right) is situated in the city Sotchi which is also a big holiday town for Russians. Here you can rent a Volga hydrofoil motorboat when you are not sipping the beer which was just poured from a tanker on the beach.  1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 40 minutes, 30 slides.

Lee river in China, one of the world's most beautiful rivers I made the day trip down this river which is winding through the landscape filled with the high rounded mountains. I enjoyed most the life on and along the river. People: living on their boats, hauling boats with man power upstream, fishing with cormorants.  1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 50 minutes, 50 slides.

Through the awesome Yantze river gorges. From Chongqing to Shanghai A several day trip on large passenger boat. Passing through the famous gorges. Coming out on the plains.  Now a dam is built which will change the views.  Article not yet written, slides. As lecture: 50 minutes, 50 slides.

High speed traditional sailing on the Philippines You can sail fast with bamboo and tarpaulin instead of carbon fibre and kevlar. Pictures from a race with ten outrigger canoes at the world top rated beach Boracay. Westerners also compete, with varying result they have modified canoes with western gear. 1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 40 minutes, 50 slides.

The great variety of Indonesian sailing craft  In this vast 14.000 island nation, 200 million people, the wind is still the only power source of tens of thousands of sailing craft from small outrigger canoes to schooners.  2.000 words, pictures from most parts of Indonesia. As lecture: 40 minutes, 50 slides.

Test sailing Indonesia's most beautiful boat  This fast outrigger canoe is found on and around Bali. It is beautifully painted and decorated. The lower half of the hull is dug out of a log. You can see up to a hundred on one beach. It is used for fishing. 1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 30 minutes, 30 slides.

The junks are still sailing  Pictures from on board while sailing on different junks and of junks in the harbour of Xiamen, some 500 km north of Hong Kong, in China.  Marco Polo visited a coastal Chinese town, we don't know which, maybe it was in Xiamen. 2.000 words, slides. As lecture: 60 minutes, 50 slides.

The river Nile felucca. An extreme light wind boat  This Latin rigged boat carries a vast amount of sail. In comparison much more than for example a Star boat.  Also pictures of Pharaoh's large "Sun Boat", found near the pyramids and now in a museum. 1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 40 minutes, 40 slides.

Navigational aid of the future: Chart information shown directly on the water

1.500 words. As lecture: 15 minutes.

Tricky manoeuvring and berthing made simple by computer and side stick

Article not yet written. Some 1.500 words. As lecture: 20 minutes.

The sail boat of the future: zero energy sailboat

1.500 words. As lecture: 25 minutes.

Racing with the sailboat of the future

1.500 words. As lecture: 25 minutes.

100 knots without propeller

1.500 words. Sketch of propulsion unit. As lecture: 20 minutes.
 
 

Stiff wings sails. The sail of the future? Discusses merit and drawbacks of stiff aerofoil in comparison with traditional soft sail. It is not as many believe that the stiff wing sail is aerodynamically much better than the soft sail. Apart from often being more practical the soft sail has merits as it can easily be twisted.  2.000 words, pictures of wing sails on catamarans, skate sail, ice boat and land yacht. As lecture: 30 minutes, 20 slides, sketches drawn to explain.

Five story "dry" 200 motor boat marina with robot, in Auckland NZ

Short text, slides, including pictures from the "wet" marina. As lecture: 10 minutes, 5 slides.

The pleasure performance sail boat of the future

1.500 words, Sketch of this boat. As lecture: 30 minutes, few slides.
 

Travel light Backpack? No some three kilos (6.5 pounds) is enough in the tropics says Anders Ansar. With critical selection, specially made gear like trousers with removable legs, miniature versions of needed gear, modified gear, "base camp" and "dumping" you can get rid of many kilos. Some weight saving carried to the extreme - laughing is permitted. Example: Carry all bag of spinnaker nylon, weight 73 g, 2.6 oz. A light backpack weighs some 20 times more. Picture, from left, miniature gear carried in the pocket: Compass the size of an aspirin, LED  flashlight, knife and  comb. Match at right for comparison of size. 1.500 words, few slides. As lecture: 60- 20 minutes with demonstration of light and modified gear.

 

Cuba: Going deep sea fishing sitting in a hose with flippers on the feet. This is the ultimate in compact fishing boats. These brave Cuban fishermen catch sharks up to three meter in length on hand line! They go as far as 2 km (1.5 miles) from the coast. If a offshore wind starts to blow it may be the last fishing trip. Typically they spend the whole night at sea. They do it for pleasure and for getting more animal protein than else. Much, also meat, is rationed on Cuba.  Some 1.500 words, slides. As lecture: 25 minutes, 15 slides.

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