Invention No. 104 - Skate 'n Sail

The sail skateboard defeated me and my friends back in '92. It was a tough year on the inventing scene. It was the year we learned that with enough man-power and sweat-equity, we could change the world of teenage trasportation. The plan was assembled late on a wednesday evening just as wind began calling us in a blustery voice at the door. The beginning was a set of plans that still inspire me today. I found some galvanized tubing at Allied and we welded a sail frame together. We even hired some welders from Argentina for the job. Then we attached a sail and anchored the whole thing to a skateboard nice and snug. Below is a picture of what it looked like.














We found the wheels on the skateboard to be too wimpy and the bearings bound on us in mid flight! We switched the skateboard out for a wagon and lo! it worked better. So try a wagon, man!