Row, Row, Row Your Boat/Unsafely Down The Stream

A German artist named Frank Boelter has built a boat using Tetrapak—the stuff they make juice boxes out of. This is disheartening to us because we always thought the only average household item you could use to build a boat were paper towel tubes for a raft. Damn childhood daydreams.

A 1884-sq ft sheet of Tetrapak was folded to make the boat, which is almost 30 feet long and weighs 55 pounds. Named “Bis Ans Ende der Welt” or Until The End Of The World, the $217 boat took just two hours to construct, and Frank reckons it will survive forty days (and, I assume, forty nights) before it disintegrates into a soggy mass of sinkability.

There’s no way anything made out of cardboard and taking two hours to make can last in the water as long as Lent does. Line the bottom with some Cap N’ Crunch for buoyancy, however, then maybe it won’t disintegrate “into a soggy mass of sinkability.”
Giant Paper Boat Made from Tetrabriks, Allows Real Sailors on Board [Gizmodo]
Image [Reuters]