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Monday, April 27, 2015

Plastic Bottle Kayak Design Process

In groups, we worked together to sort images to show the design process for the 2015 Plastic Bottle Kayaks.

We designed some kayaks too:




These are the things we learnt from the Plastic Bottle Kayak adventurers to include in our design process:
  • a prow
  • netting to hold the bottles together and to stop them floating away
  • some of us had double netting so if one lot was damaged there would still be some bottles left to keep us afloat
  • vertical bottles along the sides to help with balance in the sea
Some of us added other things which we thought improved the design like:
  • a flag
  • a rudder
  • foot rests
  • a lantern for night time paddling

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