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.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:45:14 -0400, Jim wrote:


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.

In the early '90s, there was a Cuban restaurant in Miami, that had a
collection of rafts that had made the journey. Most all of them were
damn scary. Now, apparently, they are a thing of the past.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/exile/vanishing.htm

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:46 -0400, 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.

When is that held? I've never heard of it, in all the years I've been
in and out of here. 'Course, they coulda stopped it.

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:42:57 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:27:50 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:55:46 -0400, 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.

When is that held? I've never heard of it, in all the years I've been
in and out of here. 'Course, they coulda stopped it.


I was at the 1980 and the 1981 WPGC (radio) Rambling Raft Race.
This is some pix from the 81 outing.

We did the final assembly on a side street near the venue
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/loading%20bags%20in%20raft.jpg

After we got the bags stacked in the frame we covered it with VisQueen
stapled well all around. The Marines flipped it over and tossed it in
the river.

This is our raft and a smaller one in the background with similar
construction being loaded

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/on%20the%20raft.jpg

Of course we needed food on the raft
http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Becky%20Grilling.jpg

I didn't make the 82 race because I was out of town on business and by
83 I was on my way to Florida so I don't know what happened to the
raft race after that .

Well, I was doing some heavy travelling during that time, but I've not
heard anything lately. I tried to call WPGC to see if they still
sponsored it, but all I could get were taped messages.

I didn't see any food!

Great pictures.