Oct302013
Daily DrakeFlipBoat

FlipBoatTurning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month.

“We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”

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That riddle involved fitting eighteen feet of boat and motor into a thirteen-foot slot on the transom of his client’s Rybovich Walkaround. The think tank at the Vero Beach, Florida, company went to, well, thinking. And soon after the foldable boat was born.

In addition to obvious space-saving advantages, the flip-boat is also a hell of a lot easier to stash and hide from the wifey.

More info: Dragonfly Boatworks

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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