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Old 01-05-2010, 02:04 PM
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To be honest, i don't think it's ever cheaper to build a boat.
10' by 30'? I would reccomend filling the bins with foam and/or bottles and then sealing them shut somehow, even just with duct tape.
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The bins wont be in any danger of being punctured. I'll have them all inside the hull. And even if something managed to poke through and break a couple of them I could easily just add new ones. Does duct tape hold in ocean water?
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So, are logs now obsolete for river raft construction?

My, how times have changed...

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Old 01-05-2010, 09:23 PM
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If that's a response to me - I'm not building a raft. I just responded in here because they brought up using plastic containers.
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peoplethought,

No, just a comment about the entire thread.

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Old 01-06-2010, 05:30 PM
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Logs aren't as easy to obtain.
Besides, sometimes it's more fun to build one with bottles. Logs aren't obsolete, there's just many ways of making them.
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