To be honest, the only cardboard kayak events I know about were staged in swimming pools.
That’s probably a very good, safe, normal, fun idea.
Maybe I should have written a pool into the Hubris storyline at some point in the last nine years.
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But I didn’t.
I remember in my swimming lessons they taught us to make life jackets from blue jeans. It still doesn’t seem really practical or safe. It took forever to get them off underwater and they barely helped once you did get them off. What I’m saying is I’d take my chances with duct tape.
I made those jeans lifejackets, too. It helped a lot to not wear skinny-cut jeans. I’d need duct tape now to cover all the holes in mine.
Maybe the base jumper with the duct tape parachute can make an appearance in the river. With or without a kayak or life jacket (duct taped or not).
The river with rapids is a lot more fun than a swimming pool.
I never tried making the life jacket from blue jeans, but I saw it in the Boy Scout manual so it must work.
Lowell trying to make some sales?
There was a cardboard boat event held in Ventura harbor every year. Some pretty outlandish craft were built….and sunk….
We had somebody come by Wednesday asking for donations for our local pool.
We gave her a bucket of water.
I can hear some one in the crowd.
RULES? We don’t need no stanky rules…..
Minneapolis used to do milk carton boat races on Lake Calhoun (now known as Bde Maka Ska, another story) during the Aquatennial festivities. Never saw in person. I imagine this would ended similarly disastrously.
Yup. There’d always be pictures in the newspapers later of the more successful ones. The big paddleboat structures often went kind of far before breaking up. The thing is, milk cartons are more structurally secure than plain sheets of cardboard.
Back when Mythbusters was still on TV they did a boat made of duct tape and it was successful. They didn’t try cardboard though.
Paste decides he wants to go swimming, floods the skatepark in the basement. Boom, instant pool.
sidetrack:
Hi & Lois got it wrong today. the ones so proud of world WAR are the GREEDIEST generation. IMHO
No political posts, and no posts denigrating others.
sorry. Thank you for the gentle reproval.
You can turn Hubris basement skatepark into a swimming pool XD
If you want to make a viable cardboard boat, use chicken boxes.
I used to barbecue once a year for around 600 people, and chicken is fairly cheap. So we would buy hundreds of pounds of chicken halves in boxes that would hold around 60 pounds of potential food.
Chicken boxes are very heavy cardboard, and covered with paraffin wax. They are also washable, able to be rinsed with chlorine bleach, and re-usable by the chicken supplier, so we had to pay a deposit on each box.