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It's the silly season!
Concept proposed over beer with one of my brothers.
A "party barge" for a one-way trip down the river with roughly 12 people and assorted frosty beverages. Power to be provided by a combination of scantily clad slave girls (not bloody likely according to my wife who refuses to be scantily clad) or an old outboard that someone thinks they may have in their shed. This is intended to be a more "classy" trip than the current method of multiple canoes lashed together around an old skiff. Design considerations: - it needs to be able to be taken down to the river and returned in the backs of several pick-ups, or on a special purpose - not road-worthy trailer / hay wagon. - it needs to be able to handle various shallow sections of the river without falling apart, possibly requiring people to jump off and drag it across (10" draft?). - the vessel needs to be stable enough to handle people walking around on it. What quickly came to mind was to have each couple assemble a small, extremely cheap boat that "could" be used independently if the barge survives. Individual boats would be shaped rather like Phil Bolger's "Brick" and have the ability to be attached together. The over-all vessel would then be decked with 1/2" plywood leaving the center open for "frosty beverage" storage, or having this task performed by half-barrels lashed to the sides. Ideas? -- Andrew Butchart http://www.floatingbear.ca |
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