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Default Anybody see Mythbusters late night?

On Oct 15, 8:55*pm, wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:53:50 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports

wrote:
They built a wire frame sail boat out of duct tape. *Including the
sail, rudder and keel.


Damn thing actually sailed pretty good. *:)


It's looked like the old Town Class racing series boat.


Looked like it sailed pretty well too.


I was more impressed by the duct tape cannon.
I made a 8x16 raft for the Wash DC raft race floating on visqueen and
garbage bags.
8 people partied all day, then got towed in at a pretty good clip.


Every year, Vincennes University the engineering students, have a
build-you-boat contest, in which you are given so much cardboard, so
much tape so much of whatever, and you have to build a craft to float
or actually race paddle race on the Wabash river. It's interesting to
see some of the stuff they create that actually works. Alot of it
doesn't though.