Cardboard Boat Construction

I would like to Dedicate this video to the Late Warren Loomis.
Warren designed the rowing propulsion unit and the basic shape of the boat.

Thank you Warren

Here is my cardboard boat I build a few years back.
It took me 4 months to build. It lasted 2 years.
Sorry the video quality is bad and it says Valuation Cop.
I could not get rid of it. Stupid camera.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cardboard Boat
• Boat
• Homemade
• Cardboard
• Rowing
• Regatta

[Amarynthine]

all of the boat parts are from cardboard?

[didgeplayer]

@Amarynthine Yep all the parts were cardboard. The bulkheads we 4 layers thick of double corrigate. Thanks

[dayworld26]

do u only cover it with sealer paint or something else?

[didgeplayer]

@dayworld26 I just used about 4 coats of tremclad rust paint. The water beaded right off.

[CaptnMayhem]

Sorry to hear about Loomis, I like his creativity though. I see the pulley attached to something in the back; but how exactly do you steer and propel without oars? Is there a spring involved, and is there more than one cable to the back? Do you use a hand controlled rudder? Thanks for the post.

[didgeplayer]

@CaptnMayhem Yeah there are two cables running to the back. one is the pull cable and the other is attached to a bungy cord to recoil the cable back on the back stroke. The prop is mounted on a lower unit at the back and since the steel cables can bend and flex the whole prop and rudder turn together with a lever running down the side of the boat. You can turn the prop 90 degrees and make the boat spin is you want.

Thanks

[9DragonMaster]

now you can escape from alcatraz!!!! IMPRESSIVE~!!!

[lillianrhiannon]

It looks like it is made from wood after it's finished, but before it's painted!

[sonsofmosiah]

how many times did you get to use it before it sank?

[porpoisefathom]

this could be done as a composite and be as light but twice the strength and water proof--you paint it all over with epoxy coats..then- glass both inside and outside..and it would last forever and be mega strong...try a small model and see.!! totally composite and bet it would work great--lets band together to free us from the tyranny of expensive yachts and make well built cheap yachts for the common man!!

[werlybird21]

that is sweet. Im making one

[FuLLeFFekT1]

@lillianrhiannon technically, IT IS. LoL

[Begbucks]

wow it floats!

[FineHawaiianArt]

using the same materials a boat could be constructed that lasts even longer if the sealing agent were boiled and impregnated into the cardboard at pressure. The same way they make green treated wood you can make water proof cardboard!

[FrankaDith]

Wow with a coat of fiber glass youve just make something that will last forever ,great video.

[mindfreak5555]

@didgeplayer About how much money was this to make?