[b]Unbelievable, but will it float? Rodger
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I bet it will hold a lot of Kung Pao chicken.
What a maroon.
That is a whole lot of Chinese take out!
I think it’s beautiful & a tribute to a person thinking “outside the box”!!
God Bless him!
Mike
Vise Varmint, I think the words you were looking for was “Thinking outside the TAKE OUT BOX”!?
“Two years collecting chopsticks”…“three months gluing them together”… “Not sure, however, if it’ll float, weighing 66 pounds”!?!
I’ve heard about “strange and unique ideas/projects”, before, I even heard about a guy in another country that is hung up so much on baking bread, that he posts pictures of his creations on the Internet. Others, that believe it, or not, will spend countless dollars and unknown amounts of time…binding dead animals parts and feathers, onto thin pieces of wire then expect fish to eat them!?!
So,maybe, “making a chopstick canoe, that may not float”, isn’t ALL the strange after all!?
I suspect it will float well and not be as affected by the wind as much as other canoes. Perhaps an excellent fishing canoe. Sometimes weight is an advantage.
How would it differ from laminates? It really is beautiful!!
No question it will float. But did he waterproof it adequately ??
Kind of reminds me of the commercial where the guy jumps off the bridge with some homemade wings and someone says “He can fly !!” Then the guy lands in the river and someone says “But he can’t swim.”
Seriously - whatever it is made of, it is a work of craft and art. Hats off to that fellow.
“Chop Stick Boy” has NOTHING on this guy!??!
Viking lollystick longboat sails
The Sea Heart Ship project was backed by OLA ice cream
[b]A replica Viking longboat made out of 15 million ice cream sticks has been launched in Amsterdam harbour.[/b] The ship was painstakingly glued together by former Hollywood stuntman Robert McDonald and two friends - a job that took two years.
The sticks were collected by children all over the world. Mr McDonald is claiming the world record for the biggest boat made that way.
He hopes to sail the 15m (50ft) ship across the Atlantic.
The ship carried a crew of 20 on its maiden voyage.
I would buy one as long as it comes with hot mustard…
ok, we know it’s 13.5 feet long, and canoe is basically 2 triangles stuck together at the narrow sides. So if we guess and say this canoe is 30 inches at its widest point, (which seems reasonable from the way he is reaching accross it) and say it is 12 inches deep, we can calculate the volume by multiplying
6.75 feet (1/2 the lenght)x 1 foot (depth) x 2.5 feet (width)=16.875 cubic feet
that is the amout of water that the canoe will displace. if you multiply that number times the weight of a cubic foot of water (Approx. 62.5 lbs) you will get the bouyancy of the craft.
16.875 x 62.5=1054.5 lbs
reduced by the weight of the craft
1054.5 - 66=988.7 lbs of lift.
remember that these numbers are very rough, but the formula is accurate.
NOTE: reducing the depth to 10 inches gives the craft 809lbs of bouyancy.
chris
No reason in the world that canoe won’t outlast us all. Beautiful workmanship, and I applaud his use of recycled natural products. Took a lot more brains and guts to build that than it would have to go out and buy one or make it from a kit.
it is a beautiful work of art. anyone that cant see it in the craftsmanship and detail must be blind.