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Floatopia Boat

Floatopia was a day to be remembered.  It is a rare spring when Stanford’s Lake Lagunita is actually filled with water.  Such occasions much be taken advantage of to their full potential, and I think Floatopia was exactly that. My colleagues Erik Goldman, Alex Blackstock and I constructed one of the finest vessels known to man using only our bare fists (and power tools), our wits (perhaps a baby pool), and garbage (with a fine piece of Texas memorabilia to boot!). The vessel was built to support a lot of weight.  The body consists of a baby pool as the main structure.  Underneight the pool, we stuffed 4 giant garbage bags filled with styrofoam packaging peanuts and empty plastic bottles (with the lids screwed on).  On top of the pool, we built a simple wood deck for stability.  For navigation, we used an 8′ piece of metal conduit and pushed off of the bottom of the lake. The raft could hold 6 people comfortably and took on very little water.
About to shove off We navigated using a pole to push off the bottom The lake really did look nice Our proud flag flying high Inside our raft were bags filled with foam peanuts and empty plastic bottles twodudes_crop ]]> http://groovemechanic.net/2008/05/floatopia-boat/feed/ 0