Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

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Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

Postby stepcut » Fri Mar 24, 2017 8:54 pm

I've started building a foamie boat. Instead of the tried and true sawfish or mouseboat, I am attempting to build a two seater, twin engine, electric speedboat based on the old minimost xl plans.

My aim is to be in the water by the end of May. What could possible go wrong! Feel free to let me know all the things I am doing wrong.

This is the YouTube playlist for the build:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... QzlYhDaPne

Thanks!

- jeremy
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Re: Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

Postby GPW » Sat Mar 25, 2017 5:09 am

Being Foam , it won’t sink ...
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Re: Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

Postby lrrowe » Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:50 am

Do some searching in this forum. There is one poster who built some sharp looking canoe/kayaks out of foam. He posted many photos.
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Re: Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

Postby GPW » Sun Mar 26, 2017 5:34 pm

There’s no place like Foam !
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Re: Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

Postby stepcut » Sun Mar 26, 2017 10:31 pm

GPW wrote:http://www.instructables.com/member/rowerwet/?show=INSTRUCTABLES


Thanks! Those are the mouseboat and sawfish boats I mentioned. The battleyak videos were also a source of inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enFsYqLiLAw

And, of course, the thousands of posts in this forum.

I finally reached the point where I couldn't ingest any more theoretical knowledge with out getting some applied knowledge, hence my first (but not last!) foamie build!
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Re: Will It Sink? My foamie boat build log.

Postby GPW » Mon Mar 27, 2017 5:18 am

Time to cut foam ... Good Luck !!! :thumbsup:
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