Unusual

[Bea Woodget]

Umbrella or towels?

http://www.voilesetvoiliers.com/items/remote_view/3303

Both options look good. Not easy to decide.
This unusual competition of match racing in Laser, held July 19 on Lake Attersee, Austria, ended up - after seven matches - with the supremacy of Team Coke.

Sometimes RL shows more imagination for fun than SL....

[Chakku451 Rieko]

/me waits patiently for one of the sailing community's shipwrights to offer an umbrella boat

/me waits patiently for a yacht club to start an umbrella boat racing event

[Bea Woodget]

http://www.paperboat.it/home.html

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[Jane Fossett]

/me waits patiently for one of the sailing community's shipwrights to offer an umbrella boat
/me waits patiently for a yacht club to start an umbrella boat racing event

I think many six-year-old sailors might tell you "Been there, done that."

to quote AA Milne, from his story "In Which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water":
"And then this Bear, Pooh Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, F.O.P. (Friend of Piglet's), R.C. (Rabbit's Companion), P.D. (Pole Discoverer), E.C. and T.F. (Eeyore's Comforter and Tail-finder)--in fact, Pooh himself--said something so clever that Christopher Robin could only look at him with mouth open and eyes staring, wondering if this was really the Bear of Very Little Brain whom he had know and loved so long.
"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.
"?"
"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh?
??"
"We might go in your umbrella," said Pooh.
"!!!!!!"
For suddenly Christopher Robin saw that they might. He opened his umbrella and put it point downwards in the water. It floated but wobbled.
Pooh got in. He was just beginning to say that it was all right now, when he found that it wasn't, so after a short drink, which he didn't really want, he waded back to Christopher Robin. Then they both got in together, and it wobbled no longer.
"I shall call this boat The Brain of Pooh," said Christopher Robin, and The Brain of Pooh set sail forthwith in a south-westerly direction, revolving gracefully."

[Manul Rotaru]

http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... tecutecute

http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... cutetoboot

http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... idgestubby

http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... utsailboat

[Jane Fossett]

http://sites.google.com/site/tradewindsyc/project-updates/cutecutecute
http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... cutetoboot
http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... idgestubby
http://sites.google.com/site/tradewinds ... utsailboat

OK! I knew there were "Rock" boats (ferrocement);
Now I know there are "Paper" boats!

Now we just need "Scissors" boats!


Ferrocement!