My Carved Wooden Ship!!!

My school has a creek that runs through it. We have boat races every year. Everyone decided to make they're boat out of paper, plastic, popcicle sticks, or french fry trays while I made mine out of wood. Carved wood. It is a model from the Civil War. Ther name is moniter I beleive. I think the materials are obviously easy to see, but if I'm wrong you feel free to ask me anything.

rijan says: Dec 10, 2011. 12:28 AM

HELLO LIL LAIRY i'm Rijan from nepal nice to meet you.

spya says: Jun 17, 2011. 6:53 PM

This is really cool!good job :)

LoneWolf says: May 2, 2011. 10:08 AM

How do you vote???

lil larry (author) in reply to LoneWolfMay 3, 2011. 6:55 AM

The judging ended last night.

nfk11 says: Apr 28, 2011. 5:33 AM

i voted already

lil larry (author) in reply to nfk11Apr 28, 2011. 4:52 PM

Thanx! It means a lot! :D

splazem says: Mar 3, 2011. 4:33 PM

Awesome. It would be cool to see more pictures or a video though.

lil larry (author) in reply to splazemMar 3, 2011. 4:54 PM

I can't make a video, but I can try to add some pictures if my computer stops glitching.

splazem in reply to lil larryMar 3, 2011. 5:55 PM

Sounds good.

lil larry (author) in reply to splazemMar 3, 2011. 6:09 PM

yep.

happyjo says: Mar 3, 2011. 9:36 AM

Awesome! :D

lil larry (author) in reply to happyjoMar 3, 2011. 3:52 PM

Thanx! My dad mostly did all of it though. ;)

Kaptain Kool says: Mar 2, 2011. 5:57 PM

nice job. Is that a soup can for the turret?

lil larry (author) in reply to Kaptain KoolMar 2, 2011. 6:03 PM

no, it's a coffee can. I was going to type up how to make it, but my computer froze right when i was going to publish it!!! D:< And I typed A LOT, but I'm too lazy to retype it.

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l8nite says: Mar 2, 2011. 4:50 PM

lol... Im going to blame a grimey keyboard for that typo ! Here's an idea if there's a next time, cut a 2liter plastic bottle in half length wise or a little less than half , maybe hotglue in a deck, should be light enough to float really quick in the safety restricted water

lil larry (author) in reply to l8niteMar 2, 2011. 5:00 PM

Cool idea! Maybe I'll try that! Thanx! :)

nfk11 says: Mar 2, 2011. 9:50 AM

looks like plastic but good job

lil larry (author) in reply to nfk11Mar 2, 2011. 3:45 PM

Thanx! I kinda over painted it. maybe thats why it looks like plastic.

nfk11 in reply to lil larryMar 2, 2011. 4:21 PM

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l8nite says: Mar 1, 2011. 8:08 PM

I like the safety rails but believe the monitor was a few years before tanks ! The USS MOnitor was referred to as a cheesebox on a raft due to its rotating round gun turret (one of the first ever) with its low profile the monitor wasn't very seaworthy and sank in high seas off the North Carolina coast dec 31 1962, the turret has been recovered and sits in a maritime museum. How did your model fare in the creek?

lil larry (author) in reply to l8niteMar 2, 2011. 3:43 PM

Thanx! I know that they didn't have tanks back then, but I just felt like putting it there. Correction: 1862 not 1962. My model worked pretty good. I goes about between 4-6 mph. I didn't win though becuase at school they said the water must be safe to do this so we raced them when the water was like 3 in. deep. >:( I tested it at my house becuase it has a creek that runs through it so that's how I got the 4-6 mph thing.