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Origami Boat

Origamiboat
"Origami boat is a light folding dinghy for sailing fun.

Almost three meters long, Origami boat carries one adult and its extreme lightweight structure makes it exciting to sail. Afterwards it folds up into a flat pack to the same size as a windsurf board..."

It's pretty short on details, but the imagination is tall. Matteo Signorini designed the Origami Boat as part of his industrial design engineering course. What's pretty cool is that he was able to model different designs with paper first, before building out the full-sized prototypes with sheet plastic. [via] - Link.

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Posted by: GeoBrett on November 16, 2006 at 11:18 AM

Reminds me of Instaboat -- "the perfect portable folding boat for outdoors enthusiasts. This foldable boat is lightweight, durable, and can be assembled in 2 minutes. This boat adapts to all recreational vehicles and is easy to carry. Very stable and safe to use, it is unsinkable, even when filled with water."

http://www.instaboat.com/

Posted by: bdillahu on August 13, 2007 at 12:21 PM

There's a some more of these folding boats popular with the home building crowd...

http://www.craftacraft.com/origami_dingy_alternative_design

and I've built this one (power version):

http://www.craftacraft.com/sailing_origami_dingy

Bruce

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