From the resourceful Milos Milner, whose photo essay Built in the Village Stable we published just recently, comes another down-to-earth boating story.
This image makes me think of big pool noodles, epoxied just above the "one boy" waterline, all the way around... for stability and keeping it higher if bailout needed?
A wonderful repurposing. As a child, you can discover a whole new world in it and realize how far your own ideas can take you. And why a boat hull can ultimately only consist of a self-supporting shell framed by a stable gunwale.
Those who experienced this repurposing as children approach the project of building their own boat with a different perspective in later years. They have learned that many frames and planking may be good. But you can also construct a boat from the outside in, instead of from the inside out.
Today's stitch-and-glue constructions demonstrate this shift in thinking. First the shell, then the stiffening.
Well done that young man! A lad after my own heart....
I spent my youth trying to make odd stuff float; once I tied four small (?five gallon) oil drums into a frame and drifted precariously across a small pond. Later put some used floor boards together in the form of a punt and as I hadn't a clue how to make a watertight joint, wrapped the underside parcel-wise in what we Brits call 'roofing felt' - loose weave material coated in tar. This time, in that same small pond, I swamped my creation and sank; fortunately able to wade ashore.
These days, many, many years later, my end is, if not 'nigh', then definitely coming perceptibly closer, I have taken one of my crazy ideas and shrunk it down to build at coffin size. I think it's cute, but that of course, is a matter of opinion, and I cannot upload an image to give you an idea
It's called 'Dead Reckoning'
I wish our young naval architect a long productive life
There is a movie [I believe it is one of the Pink Panther series] In which a Citroen D type goes over an embankment and lands, upside down in a pond, where it floats merrily. Objects, like boats, are only limited by your imagination.
This image makes me think of big pool noodles, epoxied just above the "one boy" waterline, all the way around... for stability and keeping it higher if bailout needed?
A wonderful repurposing. As a child, you can discover a whole new world in it and realize how far your own ideas can take you. And why a boat hull can ultimately only consist of a self-supporting shell framed by a stable gunwale.
Those who experienced this repurposing as children approach the project of building their own boat with a different perspective in later years. They have learned that many frames and planking may be good. But you can also construct a boat from the outside in, instead of from the inside out.
Today's stitch-and-glue constructions demonstrate this shift in thinking. First the shell, then the stiffening.
Well done that young man! A lad after my own heart....
I spent my youth trying to make odd stuff float; once I tied four small (?five gallon) oil drums into a frame and drifted precariously across a small pond. Later put some used floor boards together in the form of a punt and as I hadn't a clue how to make a watertight joint, wrapped the underside parcel-wise in what we Brits call 'roofing felt' - loose weave material coated in tar. This time, in that same small pond, I swamped my creation and sank; fortunately able to wade ashore.
These days, many, many years later, my end is, if not 'nigh', then definitely coming perceptibly closer, I have taken one of my crazy ideas and shrunk it down to build at coffin size. I think it's cute, but that of course, is a matter of opinion, and I cannot upload an image to give you an idea
It's called 'Dead Reckoning'
I wish our young naval architect a long productive life
And many boats to his name
There is a movie [I believe it is one of the Pink Panther series] In which a Citroen D type goes over an embankment and lands, upside down in a pond, where it floats merrily. Objects, like boats, are only limited by your imagination.
Sail upgrade?!