Cardboard Boat 15'

[Bruce Cook]

This Cardboard Boat is Re-cycled 12 pack boxes

[tchiffriller]

What boat?

[Ian McColgin]

I encouraged this post and hope there will be more amplification, especially if someone more computer literate than I am can tell Bruce how to post pix. He managed to e-mail me some and the boat is a total gas. All O'Doole's, significantly.

Bruce's problem, besides posting the pix, is what to coat it with so that the thing will float. Think skin on frame structure except the skin is cardboard and the frame is cardboard tubes.

It's possible that there'd be more expense to a doubtful outcome than is worth anything and the best Bruce could do is hang the thing over the TV or donate it to a bar as evidence of what happens if you don't drink real beer.

But if it were to work, perhaps a good CPES saturation would make a plastic/cellulous matrix of adequate strength if the resulting matrix is not too brittle. I'm thinking of the contrast of how really thin bonding layers of WEST glue can make dynamic wooden springs but a moderatly thick puddle on wax paper yields something as explosivly brittle as glass. I just don't know which way CPES soaked cardboard would swing.

[Canoez]

Well, in the "old-tech" department, there is a fairly long history of paper boats (mostly canoes, kayaks and other small craft) that were made of layers of newspaper laminated with various things. Some that I know of include varnish and Polyester resin. Very often this was a process done with newspaper or kraft paper over a plug to get an inexpensive boat. Sometimes the paper was just the plug to make a cheap (READ: THROWAWAY) fiberglass boat.

There are very famous examples: Nathaniel H. Bishop comes to mind immediately - Voyage of the Paper Canoe : A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico During the Years 1874-1875. (http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nhb/paperc/intro.html)

Some good links to old and new paper boats:

http://www.riparia.org/paperboat/paperboat.htm

http://kcupery.home.isp-direct.com/

I don't see any reason why you couldn't do this with thin layers of cardboard like you have.

[Canoez]

... and an epoxy/paper boat:

http://kcupery.home.isp-direct.com/PBArtic/TandC.html

http://kcupery.home.isp-direct.com/PBArtic/DTpc.GIFhttp://kcupery.home.isp-direct.com/PBArtic/DT2.GIF

Yet another link:

http://kcupery.home.isp-direct.com/PBArtic/issues.html

[Bruce Cook]

Thank you for the cardboard boat info.....I wll get a pix posted tonight when i have more time ...Cookie