Ship made of beer can safely finish her maiden voyage

A 9 meter long ship made of beer cans has achieved a voyage from Ipswich, Australia to Brisbane.

Make a ship with empty cansThere are other things, but it is surprising that we can truly navigate.

Details are as below.
Ahoy to beer can boat with a SIDS message - Queensland - brisbanetimes.com.au

Brad Gillam, Rob Meharg, and Chris Taylor, who created rescuers of the military, created this ship. "We tried and tried a couple of times to make a sturdy ship, trial and error, many research results are being shipped and you can relax on the ship if you do not go a million miles in an hour," Gillam "He says.

They are home town Toowba and completed the ship with about 8000 beer cans and silicon. Friends and neighbors cooperated for the empty can of beer so it seems that the raw material was not short.

Also equipped with cannon. It seems that neighbors forgave me when we performed a cannon launch test at 22 o'clock in the evening.


However, Mr. Gillam gave her 12 weeks old daughterSIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)The situation changed from having lost in, and we will start sailing with the message of SIDS. It is said that the contribution to the group "SIDS and Kids" that supports a family who lost a newborn baby on the way to Brisbane was about $ 60,000 (about 7.4 million yen).