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.

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.

That keel really looked flaky.
I watched their attempt to use duct tape to patch a hole from under
water with some interest.
Half-assed worked.
A special adhesive formulation that sticks better - to put in the
emergency kit - would probably sell to boaters.

--Vic

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:34 -0500, Vic Smith
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.

That keel really looked flaky.

Yeah - that looked a little funky, but it seemed to work. And it was
sailing in fairly choppy water.

I watched their attempt to use duct tape to patch a hole from under
water with some interest.
Half-assed worked.
A special adhesive formulation that sticks better - to put in the
emergency kit - would probably sell to boaters.

They went about it wrong - a patch isn't going to work.

Whipping up a ball and/or plug would have been perfect.

On Oct 15, 10:13*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:34 -0500, Vic Smith

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.

That keel really looked flaky.

Yeah - that looked a little funky, but it seemed to work. *And it was
sailing in fairly choppy water.

I watched their attempt to use duct tape to patch a hole from under
water with some interest.
Half-assed worked.
A special adhesive formulation that sticks better - to put in the
emergency kit - would probably sell to boaters.

They went about it wrong - a patch isn't going to work.

Whipping up a ball and/or plug would have been perfect.

The last episode I watched was when they made an outboard boat out of
frozen paper machet.

that didn't work very well either.

In article 8aab6103-90ad-4b25-aa35-
, says...

On Oct 15, 10:13*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:34 -0500, Vic Smith

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.

That keel really looked flaky.

Yeah - that looked a little funky, but it seemed to work. *And it was
sailing in fairly choppy water.

I watched their attempt to use duct tape to patch a hole from under
water with some interest.
Half-assed worked.
A special adhesive formulation that sticks better - to put in the
emergency kit - would probably sell to boaters.

They went about it wrong - a patch isn't going to work.

Whipping up a ball and/or plug would have been perfect.

The last episode I watched was when they made an outboard boat out of
frozen paper machet.

that didn't work very well either.

Worked fine till it melted.. They even got it up on plane iirc...

On Oct 15, 11:21*am, Tosk wrote:
In article 8aab6103-90ad-4b25-aa35-
, says...





On Oct 15, 10:13*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:07:34 -0500, Vic Smith

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.

That keel really looked flaky.

Yeah - that looked a little funky, but it seemed to work. *And it was
sailing in fairly choppy water.

I watched their attempt to use duct tape to patch a hole from under
water with some interest.
Half-assed worked.
A special adhesive formulation that sticks better - to put in the
emergency kit - would probably sell to boaters.

They went about it wrong - a patch isn't going to work.

Whipping up a ball and/or plug would have been perfect.

The last episode I watched was when they made an outboard boat out of
frozen paper machet.

that didn't work very well either.

Worked fine till it melted.. They even got it up on plane iirc...

Yeah, they tried to re-freeze the hull with a fire extinguisher.

On Oct 15, 8:53*am, 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.

Most likely better than FAGGOT SCOTTY INGERSOLL **** creations (oh
yeah...they're someone ELSES plans)

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.

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:20:34 -0700, Tim wrote:


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.

Reminds me of some of the stuff the Cubans were floating over on back in
the '90s. I remember one raft made out of rebar. The whole thing was
wrapped in a blue poly tarp, and used a couple of chunks of Styrofoam for
floatation. Frankly, I wouldn't have crossed a small pond in it, let
alone 90 miles of ocean. Guts, desperation, or both.

thunder wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:20:34 -0700, Tim wrote:


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.

Reminds me of some of the stuff the Cubans were floating over on back in
the '90s. I remember one raft made out of rebar. The whole thing was
wrapped in a blue poly tarp, and used a couple of chunks of Styrofoam for
floatation. Frankly, I wouldn't have crossed a small pond in it, let
alone 90 miles of ocean. Guts, desperation, or both.

In Key West I saw an innertube with a door strapped to it. Supposedly it
was used to make the 90 mile crossing from Cigarland.