i have never heard it called a pot noddle before, as a serious point , does anyone else realise that chick pot noddles contain no chicken at all, read the lable its not listing chicken!!!!!
So here we are the almost finished article. There are a few down sides to it so let’s deal with them firstly.
1, far too heavy, using 12mm ply not 6mm doubled that weight and using a plaster board pallet rather than 25mm by 50mm timber tripled that weight as well. I have yet to put everything on the scales but we are easily over 40 kg for the boat and that’s before we fit the parker knoll chairs.
2, not as water proof as we thought, we actually stopped taking the bent nails out of the sheet of ply to stop making MORE holes in it. We have plastered the outside with a stuff called IKO POLIMAR which is basically a plastic paint used to seal roof tops and flat roofs with. We have three tubs left over from a job last year and this is the last tin of it. I plan to slap two or three coats of it on the boat hull and mastic all the insides of the joints.
As a first attempt at this sort of boat we are also only planning a one way trip we did not and plan not to spend any more than possible on the whole boat
We have also brought a sea gull outboard engine over the weekend it’s a simple little job but with a service should stand me well to do the first great escape plan and after this trial maybe I can consider doing more of them but after I made a proper boat or brought an old fibres glass jobbie. But that’s for a later date.
Other considerations is the idea of two pieces of 25mm by 50mm running down the outer edges or a single piece of 150mm by 25mm cut to follow the shape of the hull as a keel to help it to guide along, she has a flat bottom and with a strong head wind I can see she being hard to keep in a straight line on the cut and river. Any suggestions any one.
I have had several people make comment on the construction style of the boat and all were laughed at by me, she is at the end of the day designed to go to a max of 100 miles before burning, joint details and sanding of hulls before painting and planning ply to tight joints, are not needed at all, we can solve all issues with the submanoe with shouting, lots of shouting. If anything goes wrong all we have to do is shouting at it long and hard enough and will we perform as planned. It worked for the British Empire and I can’t see why it should change.
Costs.
Being unemployed at the moment and having a set amount of money. Generous gift from a friend who is stupid enough to support a crazy idea of the great bathtub challenge but is not totally stupid enough to actually do it. Also we are going to pay back when we get financially sorted again.
Sea Gull outboard engine £80
Boat sealants, two tubes from a pound shop £2
Two packets of handles, to tie tarp to as roof £2
Hobo stove part £1
Rope mooring eyes (gate ties) three of £3
Flash band, roof repair tape (sealing boat joints) £8
Nails screws and plywood and plasterboard pallet were already at the allotment or collected for free off the street where I live, so was the roof sealer paint and the settee cushions and arm chair
Total so far including the £80 for the sea gull engine outboards is £96
We have still buy some ropes and two stroke oil and to service the outboard as well.
The outboard should really be considered but we will reuse the outboard on other boats so in one way so far the boat has only cost us £16 , and for a seven foot by three foot, 2.1metres by 0.9metre boat we don’t think it’s too bad for a disposable boat
picture time
firstly the obligatory video, and cup of tea,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Uf24b7PtgE&list=UUD2UDQkIfU7zYyRRfsnPQ5Q&index=1&feature=plcp
next up is the expensive parts from Newcastle
and before you ask, yes i did, many other em as love the stuff and was on the train not driving. i did wrap the lot up with brown paper so it looked better carrying around on my shoulder all day, drove the police crazy wanting to know what is was, lol
and now the finished (almost) articule
yes i know is not squared up and very bent and twisted but its a rough disposible boat i dont mind if it is, and for a pallet its very waterproof, ha ha ha
