My boyfriend, Dallas, and I constructed a boat to race for Aquatic Science. The first model had a hull made up of two halved water bottles inside of each other. We superglued a couple sticks together as the mast and a sheet of paper as the mainsail. The keel was part of a rubber flipper that we cut and glued underneath the water bottles to help it sail straight. We didn't have a chance to test it in the pool with the hair dryer because another boat crushed ours and we had to make a new one. The new one is made up of two water bottles side by side with 3 pencils as support for the mast, and a triangle mainsail made up of foil wrapped around the pencils. We had two keels this time made up of Styrofoam. Because I didn't have a phone or a camera; I didn't have the chance to take pictures of our construction. But below there is a picture with the main parts of the sailboat that we made sure to have.
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