Cheap boat

[TimberWolf]

Have you ever dreamed of owning a boat and sailing around the Horn, but been put off by ridiculous prices? Then build you own:

Designer Frank Bolter builds 27ft-long paper boat... that wouldn't stay afloat | Mail Online

He should have used grease proof paper, and not worn a suit.

 

[doodab]

He should have used grease proof paper, and not worn a suit.

Then he wouldn't have got in the paper.

My father built several wooden sailing boats when he was younger, I still have some of his books on the subject. It's not as hard as you think.

 

[Paddy]

You can make them from wire mesh and concrete (as the do in Greece or you can use papier-mâché and paint it in gloss paint.

 

[EternalOptimist]

I have this theory that you could make one out of river reeds and sail from Egypt to South America