Painted Mattress Survival Boat

Step 4 Squish One End

Okay, the basic directions for the project are "Paint a Fricking Mattress and Call it a Boat."
But like all artists, we are confronted by the limitations of the materials at hand.
So we make a virtue of necessity.
This mattress is all rotten and gone at one end.
We'll lash a board over it to squish one end of the mattress and make it pointy.

Your materials will be unique in a different way.
If your mattress is very flexible, you might want to tie a frame on the top.
If it's terribly full of holes, you might want to wrap a tarp around it.

VERY IMPORTANT:
The most important thing is to leave a big hole in the top of your mattress so you can bail water out of it.