7P6 Boat Test

My Tin Boat

Our Innovation and Design Class will be making tin, and later 3D printed, model boats. We will be using said boats to expirement with how many pennies they can hold. There will be a tub of water to use in the making of the boats. This will be a lot of fun, I'm sure. I like the concept of designing, to the best of your ability, a functional boat. I will employ my knowledge of seafaring vessels to aid the design process. This one is defininely an Innovative Designer project because... well, the whole point is to innovatively design a functioning boat. Also it is a Knowledge Constructor project because you have to learn from your mistakes and keep adding your experiences to construct an understanding of the project. This project has a rule where you have to have it be 7x4x2 inches, so our boat must not exceed these perameters.

My tin boat had a design similar to a barge, with a low- set, wide, relatively flat bottom. I rounded the edges so it was harder for water to get in, and it held all of the washers with almost no issue. It did, however, unfortunately sink when I accidentally pushed down on the craft while I grabbed the washers out of it. I learned that I may need to reinforce it a bit next time to make it a bit sturdier. However, if/when that does happen, I cannot put so much tinfoil on it that it sinks, so I must find a healthy balance.

In the 3D design, my helpful group, Andrew Cook, Tristin Eaton, and Seth Barnum, have made a boat shaped like box with buoys. To be more specific, there is a central, rectangular, open-topped box part made of four short walls and a floorboard, with two long buoys on either side to help keep her stable. This boat will carry coins in its box compartment, whilst floating on its buoys. Originally, this boat was a bit shorter, with aerodynamic triangular protrusions on its front and back, as well as a mustache wearing a snorkel, for decoration. These were cut in the long run, however, because of the fact that they made the boat exceed the size limits of the project. The boat's name is the SS Fulffy, originally meant to say SS Fluffy, but it was misspelled, and it's too late to change it now. A challenge that we faced was the build of the boat. In addition to the aforementioned protrusions on either side of our vessel, We encountered a problem while attempting to send it in to our teacher. Each time, a new hole, which could potentially leak water into our boat was formed through our attemts to change or tweak the design. We overcame this by un-attaching all the pieces of the boat, and making the floorboard extra-wide.

Something Id've done differently given the opportunity is to maybe make it just a tad bigger, so that I would be able to fit more pennies inside of our vessel.. I only managed to get fifty in the end, weighing in at about 125 grams. This project could lead to a career in boat design, using our knowledge of how boats work to make new seafaring vessels to sail the oceans vast, gargantuan azure surfaces. This could be the beginning of a new career in boat design.

And here, I will list 25 kinds of boats.

1. Dinghy

2. Sailboat

3. Pontoon boat

4. Yacht

5.Ferry

6.Cargo Freight

7.Skiff

8.Fishing Trawler

9.Houseboat

10.Dory

11.Skipjack

12.Catamaran

13. Kayak

14.Canoe

15. Dugout Canoe

16. Submarine

17. Longboat

18. Scow

19. Whaleboat

20.Barge

21.Lugger

22.Raft

23.Sloop

24.Sharpie

25.Reedboat