Spring is the traditional time to start the fishing season. And what kind of fishing without a boat? Learn how to make a boat out of plastic bottles from this article.
Necessary materials
In order to start manufacturing your boat, collect all the suitable material. It consists approximately of the following basic elements:
1. Plastic bottles. They need to be collected as much as possible. Well, if they will be large.
2. Scissors or a sharp knife.
3. Adhesive tape for fastening bottles.
4. Thin wire.
5. Crossbars made of wood or plywood.
Do-it-yourself boat: stages of work
We will tell you in stages about how to make the boat yourself. Stage one involves preparing the bottles for use. Wash them, clean from stickers and glue, using a solvent if necessary. Then fill the bottles with air under pressure so that they do not deform.
Bottles are placed in the freezer. After they are filled with cold air, you need to screw them with covers. When bottles move from the freezer to heat, air expands. Thanks to this, the bottles no longer undergo deformation. When all the procedures are done, put bottle caps on the glue, and it is better if the glue is waterproof.
So how to make a boat with your own hands? When describing the second stage, everything will become somewhat clearer. You will need to collect plastic bottles in the so-called "logs". The first two bottles are held together by bottoms: the protrusions of one are connected to the hollows of the other. For their connection, a third bottle is used, the frame of which is pulled onto the other two. Scotch connects the joints of the tanks. At this stage, you already understand how to make a boat. You see that it is simple and inexpensive.
To continue, you need to cut off the neck of two more bottles. Each of them is put on already fastened bottles on its side. The joints are connected and sealed with tape and glue. The result is a blank with bottoms at two ends. As in the first stage, we connect the recesses and protrusions. Thus, you can get whole "logs" from plastic bottles. Surely the question of how to make a boat yourself does not scare you now.
Stage three begins with the connection of "logs" in the floats. There should be eight of them in one float. "Logs" are fastened with adhesive tape, wire, you can also use waterproof glue.
Now that the work is almost complete, you yourself can brag to your friends and tell them how to make a boat yourself. Only one step separates you from victory. It remains to assemble the boat itself from the components. They are fastened by cross members. Assembly schemes and frames are very different. It depends on which model of the watercraft you are going to make. If desired, the boat can be upholstered with sheets of plywood, painted or painted.
Now you know how to make a boat out of the means at hand. This is not expensive. Most often rafts or simple boats are made, but even a yacht can be made from plastic bottles. Show your imagination and make your boat unique, such that at the sight of it your friends and relatives will be delighted.