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Project rRaft - Building a Raft out of Water Bottles

Step 5Pontoons

Pontoons
Each pontoon was made of 75" of the 40" wide garden mesh. I wanted them to be 6 feet each, so the extra inches would make up for the ends. Lay out the mesh and use zip ties make it a cylinder. I found that the best way to close the cylinder was to flatten the end, with the seam in the middle, and zip tie it like that. Look at the pictures for a better explanation.

Each of the main cylinders was able to hold 162 bottles. Simply fill it with bottles and zip tie it shut.

Rinse and repeat.

My third pontoon was a last minute thing, and since it was going in the middle, I decided to make it pointy, sacrificing some volume, hoping it would look good. In order to get an even 450 bottles, the third pontoon had 126 bottles.

These are pretty simple, but somewhat time consuming.
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