"Boat" Building 101

In preparation for this year's Camp Tipsy, I've started collecting buoyancy at my office. We go through a bunch of Vitamin Water (and bottled tea, orange juice, etc) each week. According to WolframAlpha, each empty bottle of Vitamin Water provides provides 1.195 pounds-force of buoyancy (or 5.315 Newtons) .

Here's how to build boat for Camp Tipsy:

Step 1: Get a bunch of empty bottles with caps. The photo above is about 3 weeks worth.

Step 2: Build a big box. Like a coffin. 2x4s and plywood work fine. Angle the front a bit for that boat-like profile.

Step 3: Put the empty bottles in the box.

Step 4 (optional): Cut a hole in the box. It doesn't matter. As long as the bottles don't escape.

Step 5: add an outrigger for stability

Step 6: Toss it all in the lake. You've got "boat".

Comments

[bjorn]

Nice boat. If you paddle fast you might still catch up with the "plastiki" that sails across the Pacific. Enjoy Camp Tipsy! Sounds like a lot of fun.

[Zoosk]

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[Rob]

WTF is with Zoosk?

[dav]

It's a dating website, a startup here that is starting to get some traction, but apparently they employ shady tactics for their SEO optimization. Like spamming people's blog comments with profanity.

[Chad Woolley]

Oh those clever spammers. What will they think of next...