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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 05:34 PM
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Experiment: Cardboard Boat. (You have to see this one I found!)
The USPS and DHL give away free boxes to any kind soul who happens to stumble upon their websites. A couple of clicks and an address, and you have some fantastic boat-building materials coming your way. Naturally, I ordered a bunch of these boxes not knowing what to do with them. Upon arrival, the DHL ones seemed to be of the best construction, and had a built-in adhesive that made these things stick to each other GOOD.

After some thinking, my buddy Tom and I decided that we should build a boat out of these ridiculous quantities of boxes, and attempt to sail it across our local lake (approx. 1 mile wide). With no sort of plans or any preconcieved idea of what it should look like, we set out on our quest.
http://www.lakeviewford.com/boat/
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 05:39 PM
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1. Perhaps you should consider going to Southern Illinois University
They could teach you some things about sailing card board boats and you'd get to compete against others.



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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 05:47 PM
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3. Oooh, those are nice!
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 05:44 PM
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2. I would've built a sailplane...
But, I'm into spectacular failures.

Be either the best or the best at being worst!

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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 05:48 PM
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4. ROFL! That would have gone one better than a wooden plane.
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