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Cardboard boat results
First off, Thanks everyone for yoru guidance. I received numorous
complements about how good the boat looked. One guy with a camera for a local access show, said I must have been doing this a long time, as the boat looked so good. No, I didn't finish the race. Basically what happened, is one of my seams directly under me fell apart because I was running low on duct tape. boat folded a bit, and with only 6" of freeboard, there isn't much room for the sides to flair out before you take on water. lots of it. I did the best of any of the first year guys, and the boat looked great. In retrospect, I needed the boat to be a bit wider, so it was less tipsy, and better stabilized. I also think coming up with more folds, and less joints would assist in the future. There were some rather interesting boats there. Most of them had the same basic design. about 18-24" wide, sides coming strieght up about 18", and the nose, still flat bottom, was about 30-45 degrees each side to a point. The deciding factor in which of those boats made it, and which didn't was the mass of the passenger. A few of the "neater" boats: One fanily took that same basic design, but a bit wider, and built a swans head in the front, and then made some wings for the sides. Then, after looking at it a minute, they cut this wings off and moved them forward so they could actually paddle the thing. A couple of guys made a pirate ship. about 30" wide, 8 feet long, created a mast, took some cardbaord and colored it to look like rigging, added a basket at the top (with a stuffed parrot) a plastic sail, a pirates flag, and a skull on a stick in the front. They rigged up a cannon pointing out the back, and rigged a firecracker in it so they could shoot the competition. Unfortunaly, it didn't make it off the shore. One guy free-bent the cardboard into a kiyak style thing, fully enclosed, but there just wasn't enough boat to support him. He sank right away as well. Anyway, I've got pictures, and will post here. (this is a binary group right?) I can email them, along with a narative, if someone is willing to host them. let me know. If you are willing to host, please send email to: d-filez (shift two) mchsi period com Thanks!!! dave email: dallyn_spam at yahoo dot com please respond in this NG so others can share your wisdom as well! |
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Do you coat the cardboard with wax or anything to keep it from getting
water logged too quickly and becoming a submarine? Nia:wen Thank you. --- http://www.urbanskinz.com |
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On 11 Sep 2005 06:05:13 -0700, "Kwiter" wrote:
Do you coat the cardboard with wax or anything to keep it from getting water logged too quickly and becoming a submarine? They gave us a sheet of plastic about 10' x 10' to wrap around the boat and secure with duct tape as seen fit. still didn't help with some boats!! dave email: dallyn_spam at yahoo dot com please respond in this NG so others can share your wisdom as well! |
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