The Tick Tack is a sawed off canoe that allows the user to stand and use the skateboard-click-clacking motion to propel the vessel across the water. This might be aided by using some weights at the ends of A spring to add to the energy storing capability, and a long and flexible skeg/back rudder.-- JesusHChrist, May 14 2016 Illustrative film https://www.youtube...watch?v=wM_evTO_BRcPaddle? We don't need no stinkin' paddle. [whatrock, May 17 2016] //click clacking motion// is a side to side sway of the legs/board with the upper body relatively stationary, yes ? won't work: between the size of the board required for flotation, and stiction...
... nice picture though, so [+]-- FlyingToaster, May 14 2016 This idea came from an old film of someone doing canoe tricks by standing on the tip of one end of a canoe and lifting the other side of the canoe out of the water to get it onto a dock. I figure if you sawed off the canoe at about a third you would have a length that you could reasonably swing back and forth maybe with the help of some weights on a spring and a long flexible rudder of the end of the canoe.-- JesusHChrist, May 16 2016 random, halfbakery