Concrete Fucking Canoes!

[Suu]

My work/school is fucking crazy:

http://www.uri.edu/news/index.php?today=2011-04-19

[Richter]

  "So, we need to get the different departments doing more projects together.  Assignments will be random."

Heard about this.  It's surprizing how WELL they work.  Ferroconcrete hulls are not unknown for sailboats too.

[Suu]

Leave it to URI between the School of Engineering and the School of Oceanography to come up with something this amazing.

[Luna]

That's awesome!

[ch3mist]

USS Atlantus, anyone?

[Richter]

"Man!  That thing wasn't made, it was POURED!"

"Die - cast construction.  It's a lost art."

[East Coast Hustle]

Leave it to URI between the School of Engineering and the School of Oceanography to come up with something this amazing.

You guys are hardly the first ones to think of making concrete boats.

Concrete shoes, on the other hand...

[Suu]

Leave it to URI between the School of Engineering and the School of Oceanography to come up with something this amazing.

You guys are hardly the first ones to think of making concrete boats.

Concrete shoes, on the other hand...

Rhode Island invented those fuckers before the Lithuanians invented Sicilians to invent the mafia.

[East Coast Hustle]

They say that elders of the Narragansett tribe would, as punishment for a particularly egregious offense, force the offender to dip his moccasins in tidal muck, then allow the muck to harden in the sun. This was repeated many times over the course of a day until the offender could be dragged out onto the flats at dead-low tide and be unable to drag themselves back to shore before the tide came in and drowned them.

[Suu]

 

[Bruno]

My school has a concrete canoe team.

There's at least one competition every year.

[Telarus]

The only boat my father ever almost died captaining was a concrete hulled trimaran (sank ).

The hull had been cracked and cheaply patched then painted over. The hull had been slowly sponging water for weeks before they hit bad weather north of Kauai. Nobody noticed until the bilge was flooding with seawater and the pumps failed.

Needless to say, the planned booking to take Fleetwood Mac around paradise didn't happen on that boat.

[East Coast Hustle]

Too bad, I can't think of any more appropriate place for Stevie Nicks than a sinking concrete sailboat.

[Suu]

Too bad, I can't think of any more appropriate place for Stevie Nicks than a sinking concrete sailboat.

You're such an asshole.


...I think I really am starting to get a crush on you. 

(So uh, how about that war?)

[East Coast Hustle]

I'll be back in NE at some point between may and october. Obviously, since it's a fake war designed to allow us to exploit both sets of combatants simultaneously, I'll give you a heads-up before the first volley.