OK, this may sound random, but bear with me...

 

 

 

I was walking home today with a friend, and on the way home, we walk past a recycling tip, where people take all their old junk to get mashed up and made into something else. Well anyway, we see these 3 guys and a woman come out, wearingtheir hi-vis jackets and trousers and whatever, and they are carrying a canoe, one of the racing type ones. We thought 'What the hell!?' and decided to follow them to see what they were doing. We realised that they must be taking it to the nearby pond, and indeed they were. When they got there, they put it in the water, which is filled with duckweed and all sorts of nasty stuff, and checked it floated. It did, and it was water-tight, so one of the guys tryed to sit in it. Now, I don't know if you have ever been in a proper rowing boat, the racing type, but these kind of canoes, I know from experience, are almost unstable as rowing boats are.

 

 

 

Needless to say, he tipped it straight over. This is the guy half in, half out of the water:

 

 

 

 

Once the guys from the skip had finished playing around, they turned to us and asked if we wanted a go. Knowing how unstable those things are, and not having a great deal of experience in them, I politely refused and so did my mate. They said 'Well, do you want it then?' Being pretty surprised, we said, 'Er, no thanks', so they pushed it out into the middle of the pond and walked off! Pretty incredible to be honest, these guys who work for the council to recycle rubbish and make the environment healthier, had just ditched their own rubbish in the local pond. Morons.

 

 

 

Anyhow, me and my mate changed our minds, we wanted that canoe, if it was the last thing we got! I went home and fetched a rope and a big bottle, and when I got back a few more mates had walked past and wer waiting there. We filled the bottle with water, tied the rope to it and threw it into the cockpit of the boat, and pulled it in. Ingenious!

 

 

 

After carrying it home, we needed somewhere to put it. I figured that seeing as though my house was closest, it would do best there. The one proble was that my Mum would castrate me and feed me my own manhood for tea that night if I walked through the door with a huge canoe. However, I knew that she was going out to take my sister to a Flute lesson, so I waited until she had gone out, and sneaked the canoe round theback and down the side of the house, the one part of the house she never goes. we stood it up against the wall and it is still there now. I knew my Dad would find it as he goes in the shed a lot, so I took him out and showed it to him earlier tonight, and he thought it was hilarious! I have to admit, standing on the end, the thing is obnoxiously large! It is dark at the moment, but I will take a photo of it tomorrow and post it.

 

 

 

Anyhow, it is still there at the moment, I am praying that my Mum doesn't find it. The thing I want to know is this:

 

 

 

What do you think we should do with it!? We went to all that trouble to get it, and it is in pretty good condition, the rudder needs reconnecting and a lick of paint wouldn't go amiss, but other than that it is a perfectly good working racing canoe. Seeing as though none of us canoe, we are a bit stuck for ideas. I came up with the idea of putting two outriggers on the side, hoisting a huge sail in the middle of it and turning it into an enormous radio control sailing boat, but the cost of the components you would need to do that would be ridiculous. So at the minute, we have a huge 3 metre long canoe sitting against the side of my house, and nothing to do with it!

 

 

 

Any ideas!? Let your imagination run free!

Sell it and split the money? Seems the most pratical idea and your bound to get a decent amount for it.

Donate it to the local Boy Scout troop, they can find great use for it, and you feel grat for helping out the community.

sell it

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

add an outboard moter and race people in it :P

Lol, we have actually considered both of those. The general feeling was we would rather have fun with it than have money. I also go to a Sea Scout group, and I know that they would have no use for it, as those are not the kind of canoes they are interested in, we use kayaks at scouts.

 

 

 

EDIT: A motor sounds wicked, but when you consider that it is easier to tip this thing up than it is to one foot in front of the other, and also when you consider that the thing is over 3 metrs long, it would have a turning circle of at least 100 metres, this is an absurd idea! Getting hold a motor would be no problem, I can contact the boat lifeguard club I go to, they have a few spare old ones lying about, but for the other reasons mentioned, this would not work.

ummm. Teach yourself to canoe! It's really fun to teach yourself sutff (with your friends) and mess around. Who cares if you end up in water? That would be fun. Then, maybe get another canoe and race across the pond.

Winter's coming, so if you get alot of snow, and find a big hill... :XD: :ohnoes:

Winter's coming, so if you get alot of snow, and find a big hill... :XD: :ohnoes:

 

 

 

IM GLAD somebody else thought of that too! :thumbsup:

I would say figure out getting an outrigger or two so it's more stable/fun to use..

 

 

 

You could even rig up a net between the canoe and the outrigger(s) and it'd be more versatile..

Learn how to use it properly and go canoeing in it?

 

 

 

What else would there be to do?

Learn how to use it properly and go canoeing in it?

 

 

 

What else would there be to do?

 

 

 

:roll: No imagination

 

 

 

Then, maybe get another canoe and race across the pond

 

 

 

Sounds good, but the canoe is 3 metres long and the pond is only about 10 metres wide :P I know what you mean though, good idea.

 

 

 

Winter's coming, so if you get alot of snow, and find a big hill...

 

That, sir, is an awesome idea!!! We have a few big hills round us, just gotta wait for some snow!

Or you could take it interstate and go Huckleberry Finn with it.

Eh what?

Donate it to the local Boy Scout troop, they can find great use for it, and you feel grat for helping out the community.

I agree with that.

 

 

 

 

 

If you have no use for it, give it someone who does.

take a trip to wildy with it?

 

 

 

Wait, is it a Wakka? If it's not a Wakka, you can't make it to wildy. Maybe just edgy then?

use it as a novelty hat.

 

 

 

get some LONG guitar strings and use it as the worlds biggest guitar..

I'd think you could get big plastic drums and attach them to the sides to make it more stable. Then try and row it about. If that fails then turn it into a floating den. \

Donate it to the local Boy Scout troop, they can find great use for it, and you feel grat for helping out the community.

I agree with that.

 

 

 

 

 

If you have no use for it, give it someone who does.

 

 

 

I also go to a Sea Scout group, and I know that they would have no use for it, as those are not the kind of canoes they are interested in, we use kayaks at scouts.

 

 

 

:wall:

 

 

 

Primadog, you play Runescape too much!

 

 

 

menot, you find me strings that big and I will play you a fantastic song, maybe even the best song in the wrodl (Tenacious D FTW!).

 

 

 

Ragen, that sounds pretty good actually! I could take it to Holme Pierrepont (National Water soirts centre, it's about 5 minutes drove from my house) and borrom their barrels. Hmm, I wonder if they would let us take it down their White water rapids course!?

Make it into a push kart. You can call it the Rasta Rocket, have the steering at the back, a small child for downforce at the front and a lucky egg to kiss.

Make it into a push kart. You can call it the Rasta Rocket, have the steering at the back, a small child for downforce at the front and a lucky egg to kiss.

 

 

 

Pucker up! :mrgreen:

 

 

 

How about modify it so it looks like a crocodile upside down and swim with it? "Oh teh noes teh crocs have meh!!!11" or just scare little kids.

cover it with vaseline, then set fire to it and send it down the river. vkinings FTW!

Make it into a push kart. You can call it the Rasta Rocket, have the steering at the back, a small child for downforce at the front and a lucky egg to kiss.

 

Feel the rhythm, Feel the rhyme

 

Get on up, It's bobsled time!