New Here, would love some feedback!

Well I know delboy, has some first hand knowledge on this, maybe he will chime in.

Getting down to the beach itself would be a challenge. There are expensive specialized wheels and wheelchairs for this. There are also flat mats that can be laid out, so that a normal wheelchair can roll over them. Those are pricey, too. I haven't had the fun of going to a beach since my injury. I haven't even gotten to get in a bathtub since my injury, so I'm not speaking from experience,...just from the photos and reading I've done.

Non-expert friends could probably get me from my wheelchair to the ground, and from the ground back up into my wheelchair, but maybe you could come up with some kind of a plastic or rubbery sled that could go in and out of the water. So: out of wheelchair, onto the sled. Drag me on sled out into the water and turn me loose. I have a short swim. Then friends put the sled under me while we are all in the water and get me back up onto the beach. Drag me back to my wheelchair and put me in it. This honestly sounds like fun and doable to me. You'd have to design the sled,..all plastic, I would assume, with no moving parts. Maybe some handles or grabable edges. I hope you sell a lot of them, and get an A in your course.

Damn hehe. Paras and lower quads keep getting all the inventors love ;-)

Without getting into technical specifications and design we had installed wooden ramps on sandy beaches, parking facilities,  plastic chairs with wide wheels for sand use and  chair hoists, around the island of Malta, the latter that enable wheelchair persons to enter and exit open sea.
Issues at hand for chair hoists were cost, earmarking of jetties protected from strong seas and design specifications that addressed the following: safety, user friendly, robustness and low maintenance. Due to legal aspects and quality standards we did not create our own designs due to limited numbers needed cost and quality assurance certification. We opted for an already existing and certified make used in pools in which we modified specs for sea water use. this was a cheaper solution as design only for a prototype was very costly. The design company also wanted exclusive rights on its design to.


Again i had proposed a manual operated winch instead of a battery one due to lower maintenance issues and the need for power use in charging but my board peers went for a battery operated one. hoists are installed from May to October and taken off during winter season.

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That jetpack must have gotten lost when NASA went rogue