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Cardboard
Block
(2-3” thick)
Carpet Tube
(about 4 ½” dia.)
Example:
Box boat, 3 ft X 6 ft, 1ft tall (high)
Boat volume = 3’ X 6’ X 1’ = 18 ft3
Boat displacement = 18 ft3 X 62.4 lbs/ft3 = 1123.2 lbs
Which equates to 93.6 lbs per inch of boat height
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More Cardboard Boat ‘Physics’
Center-line
Center-line
Center-of-gravity
Center-of-gravity
Center-of-buoyancy
Center-of-buoyancy
Pontoon
Outrigger Design Raft
Design Design
CONNECTING
Solid Tube TUBES
Center/Cross
Frame Beam
Frame Cardboard Cardboard
Wrapper for Tubes Wrapper for Tubes
FRAMES End-to-End At Right-Angles
FRAME ANGLES
V-Shaped Cuts
TUBE CUTTING
TEMPLATE
Multiple Cuts
for Sharper Angles
Crease/Score a line
for a nice
STRAIGHT
FOLD
A sheet of cardboard
could be folded &
“glued” together to
form tubes/beams