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im off to test launch a chipboard boat
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haha good luck!
good luck, expect to see videos of the success/failure later!
Good luck, I suspect you're going to need it.
Youtube it!
Just realized I have a whole flotilla of those in my kitchen. Not so pointy ended as yours. Good luck. May find it's single use only. Wear a wetsuit!
A double-ended coffin for a conehead surely?
Cool! Good luck 
Hope the water's warm for you!!!
Remember , a captain is supposed to go down with his ship ,
good luck! what you expecting out of that beast? 20-25 knots?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oBr8bHuZ1k
i reckon you may have the same problem as the first boat.
I recon those bins will make it ride too high in the water.
Has it rained that much in Leeds?
Mike
diabolically unstable but i managed one width of the aire and calder navigation!
Too narrow i guess, next one will be wider!
No good pics because it was to unstable to take a camera out in!
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Originally posted by Dusty
Just realized I have a whole flotilla of those in my kitchen. Not so pointy ended as yours. Good luck. May find it's single use only. Wear a wetsuit!
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Originally posted by JoelP
diabolically unstable but i managed one width of the aire and calder navigation!
That would be much more stable if you added a couple of bricks underneath the boat almost like a keel... Assuming it still floats, the extra weight low down might help
No need to make a wider one, just stick a pair of outriggers on it.
Phil
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Originally posted by Hellfire
No need to make a wider one, just stick a pair of outriggers on it.
Phil
it was a bit of a whim - basically, ive been drawing boats for years but never get round to making one, so i thought id just throw something together.
Im actually quite chuffed TBH, its my first boat and it worked!
Ive thought of outriggers and a keel but if im honest, chipboard isnt the ideal material for a boat anyway. Its all chipped up where i dragged it out
over the stonework. Only used it because it was free! I suppose i could glass over it and add an outrigger, but i fancy something in ply now, and
eventually something with a sail - or maybe a metal canal boat!
Fantastic fun though, the looks some people pulled as they walked past!
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Originally posted by JoelP
it was a bit of a whim - basically, ive been drawing boats for years but never get round to making one, so i thought id just throw something together. Im actually quite chuffed TBH, its my first boat and it worked!
Ive thought of outriggers and a keel but if im honest, chipboard isnt the ideal material for a boat anyway. Its all chipped up where i dragged it out over the stonework. Only used it because it was free! I suppose i could glass over it and add an outrigger, but i fancy something in ply now, and eventually something with a sail - or maybe a metal canal boat!
Fantastic fun though, the looks some people pulled as they walked past!
not a bad idea zil, esp since my friend is a wizard with GRP. Think its ply next though, just for a tender sized thing for some exploring without needing a waterway permit. GRP for the sailing boat!
My uncle made a little powerboat from marine ply some years back. He used the
stitch and glue technique.
Was a cracking little boat when he finished, had modest (~9hp) outboard motor with proper remote steering and throttle etc. I remember that part of
the mounting that the engine swivels on was broken...he cast his own using a pile of old tractor pistons for alloy and oxy-acetylene to melt them.
good link mike! cheers.