Raft Action!

by MN218 in Outside > Boats

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Raft Action!

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Here's a raft I made a couple years ago to navigate the toxic waters of the Chicago area when i lived there. There are a couple holes in my documentation of building this, I didn't know about instructables at the time, so if you are unclear about anything let me know and I'll try to edit it.

Cutting the Pieces.

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So I found these three 4X8X2 Extruded Polystyrene sheets in a dumpster, the ends were all raggedy and busted so I cut them down to six feet long. Good luck finding your sheets in a dumpster however, I've never found this many relatively full size foam sheets anywhere ever again...sorry to say. Anyway, cut them up into one foot wide sections.

Glue That Shit!

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Let It Sit.

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Well This Is Just Plain Unecessary!

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Cut That Out.

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The Wooden...things.

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More Wooden...things.

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Make Believe This Is a Real Boat.

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Make Your Raft Into the Merrimac.

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Nice Raft, Sort Of.

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Done.

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The S.S.Bear-Audrey on her maiden voyage, do you sense another plot hole? It's true, I didn't take any pictures of building the deck, you could just put a big piece of plywood on there, I made my piece so it would fold and sit in my car.


And thus ends my first Instructable, thank you for reading.