Project Requirements
- - No bigger than 6'x6'
- Only 5 rolls of tape available for each group
- Nothing but Cardboard and the Tape provided
The Tale of The U.S.S Ratchet
In the Project, we each made a foil model of our boats, each looked different and un-reliable. But, surprisingly, they all floated. Then we were told to put as many marbles in the boats as we could without it sinking. Rob had the least, mine had second most, and Santana’s, the most. We tried to stick with her design in the ⅛ scale, cardboard model, but eventually put our ideas together to build a masterpiece of seaworthy success...until Santana jumped out. The Most effective part of the “USS Ratchet” was in fact its massiveness. The size of the Ratchet gave us the buoyant advantage of staying afloat, but not keeping under control.
We drifted far from where we started, and thats when we lost a crew member. Santana bailed, leaving Panda and I to hopefully regain control of the beast.
Unaware that the more we panicked, the more water got into the Ratchet. Within a matter of 30 seconds, she went down, but not without a fight.
The project itself, with the construction of the boat and all the physics and measurements behind them, really taught us all that in order to have a great boat, as well as succeed and not go down so badly, takes time, precision, and more tape.
We drifted far from where we started, and thats when we lost a crew member. Santana bailed, leaving Panda and I to hopefully regain control of the beast.
Unaware that the more we panicked, the more water got into the Ratchet. Within a matter of 30 seconds, she went down, but not without a fight.
The project itself, with the construction of the boat and all the physics and measurements behind them, really taught us all that in order to have a great boat, as well as succeed and not go down so badly, takes time, precision, and more tape.