Soda bottle boat

the dragon head is way cool … so is the boat

-- Paul , Calfornia

Looks great to me. Let’s go fishing…
- JJ

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

I notice you don’t get too far away from the pier.

Or is that just because your camera doesn’t have a telephoto lens? LOL

My problem is I would have to switch from canned drinks to plastic drinks. But its a great thought.

Lee

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

This is a great idea. My wife complains about how much pop I drink. Maybe now I can explain to her that I’m goal oriented and I only need 2399 more Pepsi’s to so we can build our dream boat! In the meantime, where do I put all of these bottles? :)

-- There are three types of people in the world, those who can count and those who can't!

I think your pontoon is fantastic. I have often wondered how many pop bottles it would take to make a boat and now I know! 5 years in the water thats better than a regular store bought pontoon lol.

-- Dave, North Dakota,http://www.northdakotanart.com

fantastic.. love the dragon head.. and I, too, am ready to go fishin’

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

What a cool boat! Lord knows there are enough plastic bottles in the waste stream. The things that got my attention were the pair of Tiki torches athwart the dragon helm. Seeing this boat making silent headway across the lake with the torches burning must be a gas! If I had one of these during my partying years, I’d have been the Dread Pirate Roberts of Carbondale City (KS) Reservoir. Avast ye! Hand over the beer and no one gets hurt (ideally).

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

BTW, the 2400 2 liter bottles were mostly purchased. Here in Maine we have a 5 cent bottle return. We have redemption centers. They’ve got thousands of them. I had to pay 7 cents each. Some we had though.
The boat goes about 4-5 mph max speed but it goew for about 6 hours on a charge.

Thanks for all the comments.

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. http://web.me.com/deceiver6/Deceiver/Craftsman_on_the_lake/Craftsman_on_the_lake.html

love the touches of the dragons head that follows the steering, and keeping all those bottles out of the landfill, fantastic!

-- I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso -- http://blanchardcreative.etsy.com -- http://snbcreative.wordpress.com/

Daniel if you lived in the South I think there would be a “red-neck” joke in this post somewhere…

Looks great and shows what can be done with the stuff you have sitting around.

-- Brian, Lebanon PA, If you aren’t having fun doing it, find something else to do.

That is a cool project – love the dragon head. $168 worth of soda bottles?

-- A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

The Boat is really cool.

-- David, Tignall,Georgia

Whooooaaa!1 I LIKE IT!! Might have to build one of those. I like fishing as well, who cares if ya catch any, a good excuse to enjoy a nice day on the water. Fantastic job.

-- Pie

I love it! We will have to talk boats someday.

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings