Like the Pinewood Derby cars the scouts build in the spring, Raingutter Regatta boats also come in a kit and need to be constructed.
Scouts can decorate their boats any way they choose, but water-based paint should be avoided. Of course, the internet offered hints for making boats faster. Some scouts go for razzle-dazzle, gluing figurines and glitter onto their boats and sails, but less weight is best.
Shaping and sanding the pontoons with super-fine sandpaper grit at least helps, and so does application of clear waterproof polyurethane finish. Synthetic car wax also serves as a great water-repellent. For the first time ever, girls participated in a Cub Scout competition at St. The racing was competitive and fun. She defeated Jacob Yoon in the finals. Parents who are interested in signing up children for local Cub Scout Pack 16 should contact Alex Liston at alexandra.
Pinewood Derby Cars. Add On Kits. Speed Parts. Standard Weights. Tungsten Weights. Event Management. Family Gifts. Nature Crafts. Native American. I built my first real boat in when I was in the 9th grade. In February , I built the first Square Lake. It turned out better than I ever expected. Read everything I have written Imagine your group, and your Yacht, sailing into the sunset across the Square Lake. Most building supply stores Home Depot, Lowes, etc.
You will need: One 1" x 12" piece of Pine eight feet long. One 2" x 4" eight feet long. One 2" x 4" ten feet long. Ask to have the ten-foot long 2 x 4 cut into two 2 eight-inch long pieces and one 1 eight-foot long piece.
Screw the Square Lake together. Then take it apart. Paint all sides of each piece and reassemble the Lake. Use some caulking between the boards when reassembling to make the Lake watertight.
Buy or make two inch tall sawhorses and you are ready to sail! Home Depot sells them too. They worked OK, sawhorses are just as good. The buoys that the boats sail around are small red and white fishing floats. Attach these to a fishing weight with some string.
Have two buoys with the red side up. I decided to make our miniature puddle ducks by ripping the edge off a 2x4. This made a nice 1. I sanded the edges, especially the bow to make it go through the water easily. This is one of my sanding tricks, I put a disk in my drill press and then I can hold whatever piece I am working on with both hands and work it across the sanding disk. I made a template to mark where the mast hole goes.
Quick tap with a nail and presto they are marked and easy to drill. I always have a pack or two of shiskabob skewers on hand for various projects and crafts, and they also make great masts.
In no time at all, I had a bunch of sailboats ready for my troop. For the sail, we used pieces of corrugated cardboard. The corrugation is perfect to slip over top of the skewer stick to make a sail.
So I made a bunch of rectangles for the girls to make sails from. At the meeting the girls cut the sails the way they wanted to and colored them with markers. They also colored the hulls of their boats.
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