Some things I did know about Fuller and boats:
synchronofile.com/the-lost-inventions-of-buckminster-fuller-part-1-of-3/
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Fuller’s first invention was a 1907 push-pull boat propeller. As a child Fuller would use a rowboat to travel. To be able to propel himself while facing forward, he imagined an umbrella on a pole that could open and close as he pushed it into and pulled it out of the water. It is unclear if this invention was made or imagined, but there is a drawing of it in The Geodesic Works of Richard Buckminster Fuller by Yunn Chii Wong.
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I can imagine a steampunk [SWATH hull] pontoon boat with jellfish propulsion on pushrods instead of propellers.
Also he collected model boats:
indigenousboats.blogspot.com: Buckminster Fuller's Model Boat Collection, Part 1
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Buckminster Fuller is normally associated with technological modernism, but it seems he had a penchant for preindustrial technology too. His granddaughter recently donated Fuller's collection of boat models to Penobscot Marine Museum, the bulk of it representing boats "outside the Western tradition," as we put it.
A small passenger vessel, possibly a water taxi. We believe to be from Southeast Asia. The hardwood hull seems to represent a plank-built hull with a flat central bottom part and fore and aft bottom pieces that rise from it at angles.
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Nice form factor for a beachable, shallow draft solar electric boat.
My mother wanted a boat but my father wouldn't buy one, so she bought a bunch of plywood and brass screws and took that and the four kids out in the back yard and built one. ....he chipped in with a boat trailer.