I would imagine many of our readers at one time or another have thought about the possibility of building a boat. I would further imagine that those who have, whether it be for a “rain gutter regatta” or an actual floating device that transports passengers from point a to point b, have fond memories of the first boat they ever built, even if the endeavor failed.
I can personally attest to this as mine was the summer of 1984. I was working between college semesters on Mackinac Island in northern Michigan. We endearingly referred to the island as “Macatraz” due to the fact that after the last Shepler’s ferry left, there was no getting off the island. In an attempt to test that theory a boy (there’s always a boy!) I worked with and I decided to try our hand at building a boat. To do this, we spent most of the summer collecting the Styrofoam containers that the flowers were shipped over in for all the island hotels. Read More
