If the sail was too high the boat was top heavy and tended to tip over.
Rain gutter boat designs.
These raingutter boats can be built the same day they are raced or taken home to build or built as a group during a meeting.
Most of our rain gutters can be cut to your specified length max 20 ft and custom shipped directly to the jobsite.
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The fastest boats described in this booklet move on top of the water covering ten feet in a couple of seconds.
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Bend the straw and tape the short end to the bottom of your boat.
Whether you need gutter replacement or you re constructing a new building we have the parts and gutters to fill every need.
Use a bendable straw for the mast.
Make a boat shape by bending and folding the foil.
The bottom edge of the sail needed to be about 1 2 inch above the deck of the boat.
It channels dew drizzle and air conditioning runoff away from rv boat sides and your windows virtually eliminating unsightly streaks.
For a raingutter regatta each rainspout sailboat kit comes with 1 hull 1 mast 1 rudder and a sail.
Decorate the sail any way you like.
Ive read some people dont use the mast and just bend round their sail side to side and glue it on looks like a upside down u when looking top down rather than a c from the side and now if the sail touches a side of the gutter it touches on a curved surface and almost serves as like a spring to push the boat back in line.
The boats sailed best if they were balanced with more weight to the rear.
A boat that pushes water apart as it passes is said to displace water.
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Most raingutter regatta boat builders design their boats to plow through the water.
If the sail was too low the corners rubbed against the gutter or dipped in the water.
I didn t have much luck with the aluminum foil boat.