While other club members were busy raking and painting and sweating on HHYC Clean-Up Day, we tiptoed to our yaks and stealth-paddled off towards a campsite on Shea Island in Norwalk, CT. First break on our 20-mile journey: Great Captains Island near Greenwich, CT.

Just as we were taking this picture, a distant roar grew louder…

Um, what? It’s a motorboat. It’s a hydroplane. It’s…

…um, we don’t know what the hell it is!

“It’s a quadski,” says the guy. A 140 HP Gibbs Sports Amphibian, to be exact.

Uh-huh. Ok, well, here are facts about this new thing we’re going to have to dodge: The quadski zooms up to 45 mph on land and water. It costs about $40,000. And for an extra $3,000 you can get it in custom colors, including “camo” (camouflage)…LOL, as if that’s going to help you sneak away from Clean-Up Day!

Shiny new toy, painful new drysuit 🙂

You don’t want to miss the manufacturer’s crazy loud action video. Click below. And then you, too, will have seen everything.