How Should we Build a Raft?
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Paddling a canoe all day long gives you plenty of time to think. During the course of our trip, we have thought about ways to improve our canoes for next year’s adventure.
Some sort of shade would be really nice during the day. Also, since Ruben is in Lima now, we are short a paddler and would like to try and create a three-canoe raft.
We have an extra day in Veinte de Enero, so we thought we’d try to make our canoes into a shade-covered raft for our final day of paddling into the city of Nauta on Wednesday.
We’ll use the summer months at home to experiment and try different designs. We want to you try and give us suggestions about how to attach the canoes together, what to use as a cover, and what materials we’ll need. The materials should be light, strong, and easily assembled and disassembled in case we want to travel as three separate canoes.
We can’t wait to see what you come up with. Show us your best creativity!
Paddling a canoe all day long gives you plenty of time to think. During the course of our trip, we have thought about ways to improve our canoes for next year’s adventure.
Some sort of shade would be really nice during the day. Also, since Ruben is in Lima now, we are short a paddler and would like to try and create a three-canoe raft.
We have an extra day in Veinte de Enero, so we thought we’d try to make our canoes into a shade-covered raft for our final day of paddling into the city of Nauta on Wednesday.
We’ll use the summer months at home to experiment and try different designs. We want to you try and give us suggestions about how to attach the canoes together, what to use as a cover, and what materials we’ll need. The materials should be light, strong, and easily assembled and disassembled in case we want to travel as three separate canoes.
We can’t wait to see what you come up with. Show us your best creativity!
Comments
I think you should build them with the loggs and tree stems.
Posted by: Miss Cintron | May 7, 2007 6:28 PM
Mabye you should flatten the canoes and then put as many bamboo sticks as needed [if there are any] or tough sticks.Then put banana leafs on top.Finally
take some tough thin rope and tie it together!
Posted by: safura | May 7, 2007 9:40 PM
You should connect all three canoes together with wood, rope, or nails. then, use palm tree leaves to create a roof that will give you shade and protect you from the rain.
Posted by: Michelle Ebel (Third Grade Teacher) | May 8, 2007 9:18 AM
Ithink you should put lots of rocks, sticks and anything that is heavy.
Posted by: Miss Morgan | May 8, 2007 10:20 AM
You'll need some ropes and tie it around the canoes to stick together. For some shade, just nail a giant umbrella to the canoes.
Posted by: Gina Villa-Grimsby | May 8, 2007 12:55 PM
Our class decided that the canoes can be lashed together using holes in the top edges of the canoes and using spacer bars to keep the canoes apart and stable.
Boards could be placed across all three and tied down to form a stable flooring for the canoes and to latch a frame onto.
The upper part is more difficult. Uprights could be lashed to the same holes. Then a frame could be covered with renewable thatch. Then you will fit right in with the crowd.
One student thought perhaps what you could use your rainflies to do double duty for a canopy.
Our teach thought that maybe a center pole could be rigged up with a swivel that allowed a parachute cloth or thicker to be used as a sail or swung up for a covering.
Posted by: Class 303, Cicero | May 8, 2007 2:16 PM
We thought you could use duct tape to create a raft. If you don't have that you could use native branches, leaves and rope to create shelter and a raft.
Posted by: Otter's Class | May 8, 2007 2:42 PM
You could use vines to tie the canoes together and really big leaves for a shade roof.
Posted by: Mrs. Olson | May 8, 2007 2:59 PM
We think you should use the vines or roots Ruben showed us from the Kapok tree as rope to tie your canoes together and use banana leaves as shade.
Posted by: Mrs. Caulk's third grade class | May 9, 2007 9:26 AM
We think you should attach the canoes with thick poles of wood. We think you should put a big leaf or multible leaves on a pole and attach it to your canoes to for shade.
Posted by: 5V | May 10, 2007 9:19 AM
We think you should use logs or large sticks to build your raft. You could put four logs on the sides standing up and then put tree leaves to go over the sticks for a cover. When you build your raft we would like you to post a picture of it on the website in one of your articles.
Posted by: 5V | May 10, 2007 9:28 AM
Just take 4 or 5 logs and tie 'em together!
Posted by: RJ Walsh | May 10, 2007 9:50 AM
I think you guys should use logs ( very long logs ) and rope to put them together and then them up together. After that use leafs and put them over the logs, so that it can stay warm. Then you guys should put thin sticks at the end of it and find a way to put leafs on the top s you guys can stay warm. =D
Posted by: Ajalha ( 6th grader at EJH ) | May 10, 2007 11:26 AM
i think you should build a raft out of wood from trees. To tie the wood together, get some vines. For the paddle, carve it from a tree.
Posted by: Dalton | May 11, 2007 9:00 AM
Find some dead trees, take about 7 and tie them together with vines.
Posted by: Dalton | May 16, 2007 11:21 AM