this summer my buddy and I are going to embark on an epic quest to build an authentically designed steamboat... 22ft long, 7ft wide, 15-40hp steam engine. We'll cruise down the Mississippi at 6-10mph and be awesome.
Awesome.
I always wanted to get a nice house off the Jersey Shore and get a boat. Then occasionally when I feel daring, travel to Bermuda on my boat, since it's not too far down the coastline, I think parallel to South Carolina.
Some of my friends built a raft last year to get across a river and go camping.
I'll do something like that someday in Europe... alone. :'(
Quote from: Clucky et al. on April 22, 2008, 08:50:24 PM
do you have a boating license for that ma'am
it'll go under 25mph, so I don't think we need one, but there's no boat cops on the river anyway, just on big residential lakes
whoever asked about cost, the engine components will cost about $1000, and wood/other supplies will probably total up to another $500.
Quote from: Snorkel on April 22, 2008, 10:39:54 PM
it'll go under 25mph, so I don't think we need one, but there's no boat cops on the river anyway, just on big residential lakes
whoever asked about cost, the engine components will cost about $1000, and wood/other supplies will probably total up to another $500.
Or you could just chop down your own wood/find your own logs.
It would be cheaper to buy an old yet still float worthy boat hull from a shipping graveyard and fit it with a relatively cheap motor, then "pimp" it out with the extra cash.
Quote from: Socks on April 22, 2008, 10:48:47 PM
It would be cheaper to buy an old yet still float worthy boat hull from a shipping graveyard and fit it with a relatively cheap motor, then "pimp" it out with the extra cash.
Or superglue two old boats together and wrap them in tinfoil to make a submarine.
Quote from: Lawlz on April 22, 2008, 11:22:17 PM
Or superglue two old boats together and wrap them in tinfoil to make a submarine.
That's a fairly good idea
@Socks:
the fun part here is boat building, not boat ownership
Quote from: Snorkel on April 23, 2008, 04:59:48 AM
@Socks:
the fun part here is boat building, not boat ownership
I guess, it would still take a lot of work doing what I described, and be a bit more reliable than plywood.
I want a submarine now. And even more importantly, a big pond to put it in. A pond where I could have underwater adventures.
Quote from: Selkie224 on April 23, 2008, 02:42:13 PM
yea taking a submarine in a pond would be loads of fun doodhuh;
I actually have Lake Minnetonka at my disposal, which is gigantic and 90-120ft deep at some parts.
now how to build a submarine...
Quote from: Claquesous on April 23, 2008, 02:41:26 PM
I want a submarine now. And even more importantly, a big pond to put it in. A pond where I could have underwater adventures.
In the town where I was born,
Lived a man who sailed to sea,
And he told us of his life,
In the land of submarines,
So we sailed on to the sun,
Till we found a sea of green,
And we lived beneath the waves,
In our yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
And our friends are all aboard,
Many more of them live next door,
And the band begins to play.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
(Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!
Full speed over here, sir!
Action station! Action station!
Aye, aye, sir, fire!
Heaven! Heaven!)
As we live a life of ease
Every one of us, has all we need,
Sky of blue and sea of green,
in our yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine.
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine,
We all live in a yellow submarine,
yellow submarine, yellow submarine.