How to build a boat

[RedJohn]

I have found this neat way to build a boat. Do you guys have other simple ways to do so?

http://www.shtfready.com/images/redjohn/bushcraft/boatbottles.jpg

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Arrgh........ Laddie, but is she sea worthy? It looks OK for Puddle Pirates, maybe a crossing your cow's pond or something. But is it sailor proof?

At least it has a place to put me RUM!

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Seriously, in a SHTF situation, there's enough of that around to make a flotation device to make a river crossing with so keep that in the back of your head people. You've seen the commercial enough times on TV, you see the trash everyday. Log it!

[helomech]

Wonder what is holding it together?

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Looks like packing tape to me..........

[bacpacker]

In a real situation, do you think paracord would work?

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

Not to make something "like that" but you could use it to lash as many bottles as you can to branches to make a raft of sorts. I would use it more to float my gear across. That being my first primary concern, again this is as "mission dictates"

1. what is your primary obstruction, river, creek, lake?
2. what are the weather conditions?
3. Do I need to float, myself or others across or just my gear?
4. can I fucking swim? If not then strap them to your body to make flotation devices (water wings) or a vest type apparatus.
5. Here is where the old 90 mile an hour tape comes in but then again that shit never worked well in water so strike that. JMO....

Here's where the POS litter bugs of the world are actually worth a shit. OH then there's the hunting them down part right?

[ak474u]

Not to make something "like that" but you could use it to lash as many bottles as you can to branches to make a raft of sorts. I would use it more to float my gear across. That being my first primary concern, again this is as "mission dictates"

1. what is your primary obstruction, river, creek, lake?
2. what are the weather conditions?
3. Do I need to float, myself or others across or just my gear?
4. can I fucking swim? If not then strap them to your body to make flotation devices (water wings) or a vest type apparatus.
5. Here is where the old 90 mile an hour tape comes in but then again that shit never worked well in water so strike that. JMO....

Here's where the POS litter bugs of the world are actually worth a shit. OH then there's the hunting them down part right?

Almost looks like some kind of mesh holding that together. I've seen a dock held up with plastic bottles. They were held in with wire mesh of some sort.

[RedJohn]

I am glad this make you all think about it.

It is enough of a boat to go fish, or transport some stuff accross a big lake.

[ditchmedic]

If I drank that many two liters I would be too overweight for them to hold me up.

[LUNCHBOX]

^^^^Or use your shirt as a sail.

[Brownwater Riverrat 13]

I am glad this make you all think about it.

It is enough of a boat to go fish, or transport some stuff accross a big lake.

Give a man a fish........teach a man to fish...........plant a seed and watch it grow. Is it not the concept of the site? But what of the rum? Good picture RedJohn, made a nice flow, shall we continue?

[ditchmedic]

^^^^Or use your shirt as a sail.

That is pure win

[Domeguy]

I guess in an emergency situation, even sticking a few empty bottles under your shirt might help you float if you were injured and couldn't swim.

[Stormfeather]

I think Im going to recruit BWRR and Izzy for my boat...

Modern Day Pirates!

http://www.keywestshipwreck.com/key-west-blog/modern-pirates

[realist]

So if I march the animals two by two they go in the back???? Necessity is the mother of invention, or someone having too much time on their hands. I think this would make a great science project for the kids.

[Sniper-T]

That too, and it would get a pile of garbage cleaned up. Might need more than packing tape to hold a transom in place for an outboard though...

[helomech]

My old neighbor wanted to build a trawl boat, but had never done it. A old guy told him lay out the keel, and people would stop and give him advice. Sure enough all the old boat builders in south Louisiana would stop and tell him what to do next. He ended up building a 50 foot boat.

[Alas Babylon]

Back when I was in high school, a friend and I got dropped off on the far said of a large lake, our intent was to build a bamboo raft and paddle across. We built the raft based on our understanding of Gilligans Island raft techiques. There was a bamboo stand by the lake shore through an orange grove. we lashed the bamboo with cord we brought, and then put it in the water. It barely held itself up, and in no way would have held us. We built a frame of bamboo under the raft, like a fence around the edges, and then found a trash pile full of old plastic jugs, and stuffed them into the corral we had made under the raft. It actually worked and we very SLOWLY paddled across the lake. Half way across a nest of carpenter ants came pourring out of one of the bamboo logs, so into the water I dove. we got them off by splashing them, then continued our trip. Never made it to the boat ramp, instead pulled up on shore a half mile away from it. the raft was just too hard to paddle and move with all the drag under it, but at least it did work well enough to get us back to our side of the lake. Many lessons learned that day.