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Hubris- Anything done for the first time…

Feb28
by Greg Cravens on February 28, 2013 at 11:24 pm
Chapter: Comic
└ Tags: cardboard, Dang it, duct tape, kayak, Last Minute, race, whitewater
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Discussion (11) ¬

  1. KNO3
    February 28, 2013, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

    Me, I would build it like a surfboard for stability. Duct tape it on the inside and outside, and make hand (mitten type) paddles.

  2. TSOJ
    March 1, 2013, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Depends on whether the instructions at the beginning of the race specify what shape the kayak must have. If there’s no instructions, or requirement for how to cross the finish line (such as, you must be *in* the kayak, not swimming across the finish line with it draped over your shoulders), then I’d make a big air-filled donut-shaped life preserver and swim that across.

  3. FeelinForYa
    March 1, 2013, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I’d have an inside and outside covered bucket with some decently high sides, pointed prow front, and a few ridges along the outer edges (triangle cross section, two narrow pieces glued together and onto the edge and a bit down the side) to give the sides some rigidity, and forgo a stupid paddle and do handpower. Add a bit of a ‘rope’ made of duct tape in case I have to tow it while I swim for it…

    • FeelinForYa
      March 5, 2013, 11:54 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, didn’t realize that it was going over rocks and rapids like kayaks usually do. Then it’d be a custom duct tape banana that should get extra floation by my natural layers of padding stuffed in it. Still having some rigidity bits built in so it might take the first rapid then I make big meNboat shaped hole and have to swim for it… though I can hold breath a really long time I hate swimming in current!

  4. crazeyal
    March 1, 2013, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    Get me a knife, a soda bottle and a crazy straw!! DO. NOT. MOVE!!

  5. crazeyal
    March 1, 2013, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x272/crazeyal/c91b44e5.jpg Is that another audience member or did my wife make the comic??

    • Christa
      March 2, 2013, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not sure, but I kind of thought it looked rather like me. ?

      • crazeyal
        March 4, 2013, 8:07 am | # | Reply

        I think Craig meant for you, and got my wife by co-inkie-dink!!

  6. wnp
    March 2, 2013, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    Our royal Rangers would make one out of some willow twigs and a khote tent shell, shelter half or other similar canvas and rope no duct tape involved but that´s not cardboard. We might use the cardboard for framing and the duct tape for the water tight shell.

    • wnp
      March 2, 2013, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      This site has some pictures of and part of a media slideshow showing the type of craft in one of them.
      http://www.royal-rangers.de/das-sind-wir/ab18jahre

    • GregCravens
      March 2, 2013, 7:50 am | # | Reply

      Very cool!

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