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Originally Posted by 44'cruisingcat

This sounded interesting, so I thought I'd try it out.

I quickly emptied a couple of beer cans and taped some dowels to them to form a "bridgedeck". Unfortunately the waves got into the openings of the cans and they sank.

So I emptied a couple more. This time the sticky tape got wet and fell apart and the cans sank.

So I emptied a couple more. This time I stuck the dowels into the cans so they wouldn't come apart. But water got in where I had made the holes, and they sank.

I had run out of cans, but still had a couple of bottles of beer, so decided to give them a try. After emptying them I taped some dowels on with duct tape. The bottles went quite well, but I had accidentally put the boat in the water upside down. Then the bottles filled up with water again and sank.

No more beer left in the fridge, but there was a couple of bottles of red wine in the pantry... they took a bit longer to empty, and floated quite well, but I couldn't remember why I was throwing them into the pool..

Nice one,
Maybe you should try bottles of rum. I think they are used to being out at sea!