Designing a boat at age 12

Discussion in 'All Things Boats & Boating' started by starling718, Jan 11, 2006.

  1. kach22i
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    kach22i Architect

    Things are tough in West Oz these days.:eek:

    Trouty if any of this is true, write about it and make a million dollars - I'm on the edge of my seat. Much more interesting than my own boring life.:cool:
     
  2. daedong
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    daedong Junior Member

    What an intellectual thread, I had to go back to the home page a few times just to make sure I was in a boat forum :D :D
     
  3. ber1023
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    can you sail? you should have world class experience in sailing to try it. try sailing in 40 knts, its hard even for me
     
  4. safewalrus
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    safewalrus Ancient Marriner

    So what you want to sell?
     
  5. safewalrus
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    safewalrus Ancient Marriner

    Oh sailing not selling!! sounds the same to me! Windy!!


    Actually I didn't realise anybody on here actually went sailing, it is after all only a BOATING forum, what's Boats got to do with it? do with it? do with it?
     
  6. confused
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    I am new to this forum. I am 13 years old, I am about to build my first boat. I have the engine worked out, it's all pretty simple. I'm going to use a steam engine, or watever you want to call it. The engine is just a fire built in a firebox (2 coffee cans) heating a curled up pipe that has both it's ends sticking in the water. It works. If you don't believe me, get on youtube, look up pop-pop engine (stupid name, I know) and they have some videos of that exact type of engine powering a model boat. So the reason I chose this engine is because it is very simple, no moving parts, and if it can push a model boat, how come it can't push a full sized boat? (of course, the engine would have to be bigger than those model ones) My question is, Will my boat work? I currently live in Nevada, and I am going to wait until I move to Texas to build it. I have the ribs and spine of the boat designed, and even the whole hull of it, I just need to know more on boat building. I am going to make it out of wood, and I am having trouble on deciding how to shape the wood. I want to soak it in water, like one of my great uncles did, (that's what my dad told me he did anyway). Will it work? and also, how do I hold the wood in position so it drys into the shape I want it to? I was thinking about tying it with rope to hold it. (like a bow and arrow), I have a huge horse trough that I could use to soak the boards in. Please tell me if my ideas will work.
     
  7. kach22i
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    They had one of those in the old Cub Scout book back in 1968, I never got to build one.

    Is it too late?:)
     
  8. masalai
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    masalai masalai

    confused, the best way to find out is a) to see if you can find evidence of it having been done before, and B) HAVE A GO YOURSELF..... some things scale up and some do not seem to....
     
  9. confused
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    confused New Member

    what do you mean?
     
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    confused New Member

    oh i see...
     
  11. confused
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    confused New Member

    thanks. I got the boat off the movie The Tenth Kingdom, (the one the guy named acorn stole)
     
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    they called it a garbage barge... didn't look like a barge to me, looked like a dory kinda
     
  13. confused
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    confused New Member

    need any boat's designed? (80ft and under)
     
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    I only have $230, so it would be a waste of money to build a boat that doesn't work, I guess I could fill the horse trough with water, let a sample board soak with water about a week, and see if I could wrap a rope around it so it drys into the position I want it to, if not, then I could try another method of holding it in position until it is dry.
     
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    confused New Member

    I will be using 1in by 4in by 8ft white wood boards in construction. is that a good choice? (they're at home depot)
     
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