At 09:41 PM 7/30/99 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >The message quoted below was pulled off rec.boats.building -- not sure what >the design considerations were for the ends. <g> >-- >>> >>Last winter I was wondering if I could make a canoe out of empty >>plastic barrels. After calculating the volume of a 3x2 foot barrel, >>the weight of water it would displace, and thus its bouyancy (550 >>lb per barrel), I went ahead. It worked quite well. >> Makes me think of a guy I know around here. A local town has a big river festival, and part of the festival is an "unboat" race -- anything so long as it isn't a boat. Most of the racers start out with 4x8 sheets of foam, but this guy started out with 8 35 gallon gearlube drums and a cutting torch. When it was all over, he had a 21 foot, 19 inch wide, round bottom steel kayak, with outriggers, faked up to look like stub jet fighter wings, to add to the fun. This thing is pretty darn fast; the first year he raced it, he made it to the finish line before anyone else made it to the turnaround point. He thinks it may be faster than his Looksha III. It's not all that heavy, but I would say heavier than my plastic 16 1/2 footer. Not the dumbest idea, I guess. -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Jul 31 1999 - 14:53:31 PDT
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:30:11 PDT