Milk Jug Raft

Milk Jug Raft
This was a simple, free raft that ended up being surprisingly successful. By now, of course, it is recycled, the jugs gone off to make the next generation of mittens or yo-yos. But it served its purpose as a fun one-day raft on the lake. It took about 30 minutes to construct with on hand materials. I am in the process of building an actual boat, and this was done partly for the practice in instructable-writing, and partly for the fun of it.

There are several other instructables on this site that deal with boats/rafts built from recycled materials, most of which I didn't know about until I posted this instructable. Still, I see no harm in putting this out there.
 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
I had been collecting plastic recyclables for weeks, and so I had more than enough milk jugs to make this. A bit of math told me that around 30 jugs would be enough, but this number, like the entire venture, was inexact. In the end I used 34.

Other than than the plastic milk jugs, there were few parts. Two old broomsticks were used as well as one 4 cm wide, 1 meter long length of PVC pipe.

Zip ties were used to hold everything together. In the end I used 25.
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7 comments
Apr 24, 2011. 12:15 PMgeorion says:
any difficulty paddling??
Jul 23, 2010. 1:04 PMducktape.mac says:
where do you ride on it? do you just balance on the rods?
Jul 23, 2010. 6:40 PMducktape.mac says:
wow. how far out of the water were you? was it just floating right on the surface of the water or did it go in a little?
Jul 12, 2010. 8:05 PM12150w says:
Neat now all you need is a huge outboard motor

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