Research Paper On How To Make A Boat Essay

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Have you ever been told to create a boat that can hold up to 200 pounds? That will be able to move from one end of a pool to another? And is only made from cardboard and duct tape? Up until this year, have never been asked to make something like this before, and always thought that it couldn't be too hard to make a cardboard and duct tape boat, (soon you will find out I was completely wrong). When we first were given the papers with the information on this project I thought it was going to be pretty easy, I soon found out it was harder than it sounded. It was finally time to start planning how we were gonna build the boat. We started with the shape. At first, we chose to do a wider and rectangular shaped boat, but we soon found out that it would be better with a different shape. Our second idea is the idea we stuck with, we choose to make the front pointed and have the walls of the boat be 30 inches tall. The next few parts that we did all connected together. We had to duct tape all around the boat to make sure we had no open holes that water could leak through, and we had to cut all of the access cardboard off the top, and bottom of the boat. After we did all that it looked like it was an actual boat, it started to all come together! Some people might …show more content…

So with the deadline not far away we quickly had to think. We decided that we would put sand into the boat to add more weight, we added cardboard to the bottom of the boat so that the person in the boat had a little more distance between the water and them while in the boat. And lastly, we got 2 more rolls of duct tape to finish off the holes we made while adding the new cardboard

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