Entry 2

At first glance building cardboard boats for a class may seem like a blow off assignment. Although upon further inspection one will find that this project will indeed teach and reinforce many values that have been previously instilled upon our moldable minds. We will learn basics of bouyancy and even aerodynamics. We will learn how to work with other members of the class, no matter how much we don't like them (cough cough Dengate, I'm kidding).

We chose to make a boat utilizing three triangular pontoons, partly based off of the winning boats design last year, and our own experiences in last years race. We quickly realized that our sides were much too high after getting red marks on our triceps. Another flaw we had was that the bottom of our boat was too thin, despite already using two layers or double-corrugate cardboard. One good aspect of our design was that our displacement was very small, so we had very little resistance from the water to paddle. By utilizing three pontoons with a platform on it our displacement will be very small and we will no thave to worry about being able to adequately paddle our boat to VICTORY.

So far in class we have not started to build out boat. After working with Adam Lessel and Dengate on the trebuchet we have realized we work much better when we have 5 or 6 hours to work, rather than doing a little bit here and there. Most of our time in class has been planning and reconaissance. mwahhahaha.