Stop Press -- 84-Year Old Man Crosses Atlantic In Garden Shed

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It's official -- the Blue Water Boat idea is dead. You can cross the Atlantic in anything. So stop ragging on our Hunters, will you!




Across the Atlantic - in a garden shed: Most 84-year-olds would settle for a Saga cruise. But this ancient mariner had other ideas...* | Daily Mail Online

Actually, all kidding aside, this is a very impressive project. Like Hot Rod and the Flyin Hawaiian, this is built out of Home Depot materials (or B&Q, as the case may be). Note that the main structural fixing method uses ratchet straps ROTFLMAO.

However, utterly and totally different quality of engineering to Hot Rod's -- he built a model, then a prototype, before building the actual vessel, which held together admirably. Water storage is integral to the structural cross-members. Which are made out of B&Q water pipe . Kudos to that bloke