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Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.- Water Rat, Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Gramme 1908.
A week devoted to the learning that follows floating and moving things on water.
• Begin each day with a quick experimental boat challenge.
• Each morning: work on a rugged battery-powered, radio-controlled tanker,container,or cruise ship. Detail your boat to transport people or products.
• Help construct a micro Port Ravel to practice captaining your boat. Port Ravel is a school in France that trains captains and pilots in model ships (1/25th scale) that operate on a pond that models channels and ports. We will make a model of that model
• Each afternoon: join a team to glue up a cardboard dinghy to paddle in a Friday Regatta.