End of the Road or New Beginning?
From the Open Waterbike Project founder: time to shut-up the project, or is it the darkness before dawn?
Andreas Husi's V16/79: the newest addition to our European fleet
Andreas Husi has successfully launched and tested his new boat: a beautiful V-series stabilized monohull
Our OpenHandWaterbike!
Our first HandWaterbike, handpedalled by the Olympic parathlete Haki Doku, partecipated in the Vogalonga
New Facebook community page
Ian Cassell (Australia) has started a new Facebook community page for Pedal Powered Boats.
New Boat in V16 series
In July 2013, Joe Tracy from Maine, USA, launched his new V16-64.
Open High-Performance Pedal Boats
The V16-64, a new stabilized monohull designed by Rick Willoughby
Our mission
is to design and build innovative high-performance long-distance human-powered pedal boats.
Propeller-driven pedal boats are very, very fast: a VSeries stabilized monohull, designed by Rick Willoughby, holds the 24-hours World Record.
But they are also safe, user-friendly, efficient.
We are not a firm. We are a community — an innovation community.
We are user-innovators and manufacturers working together.
'Open Source' watercrafts: two modular architectures
We propose two different modular architectures: stabilized monohulls, developed by Rick Willoughby and the 'V-Series' group of user-innovators, and catamaran, first prototyped by Lamar and now adopting the same curved-shaft propulsion system (below). OpenCat, our high-performance catamaran equipped with the curved-shaft propulsion system. (Design Maurizio Cattaneo).
(both renders by Maurizo Cattaneo, OWP team)
If you are an user-innovator, a manufacturer, a dealer, a designer, or if you are simply interested in human powered pedal boats, please contact us. Our boat is faster than mine.