: Hello All,

: float bags for SOF are mentioned few inches down the scroll bar, so I would
: like to add an idea.

: since a foldable is going thru my mind these days I thought about using empty
: plastic bottles to fill the volume of the boat.

: I thought of putting bunjy cords on the ribs, in a way that they would hold
: plastic bottles. it's possible to use different sizes of bottles to fill
: different forms of volumes. It's also usefull to make a primitive
: "mold" or just "stoppers" so the bottles would seat
: firm under the bunjy cord.

: I realise bottles will not fill the volume so efficiently as a single float
: bag or a see sock, but bottles are cheap (free) & common, &
: sometimes they come in a square/rectangular form that fills the volume
: more efficiently than the round bottles. (they are still less efficient
: than the bags).

: bottles are also stronger/more durable than any float bag & few of them
: can be glued together with contact cement.

: a disadvantage is that they don't collaps (or perhaps they do ?)

: In a foldable I would place them on the ribs before I put the skin on.

: well..... I think I would.
: This is just an idea...
: take it from here.

: I don't intend to drink the content of the bottles I'll use, there are just
: too many. I intend to pick them from a recycling dumpster - I wonder if
: it's considered a theft.

: build less, paddle more,

: Erez

why not put the bottles in a large cheap stuff sack, garbage bag, etc. just to contain them in one part of the boat?

john