Boat Racing

 Boat Racing 

Yesterday afternoon our class started making boats, just out of masking tape and butcher paper, in pairs of two.  My buddy was Lila. It was very hard making a boat, just out of two things. First, I folded up some paper and put heaps of masking tape around it. After, we had finished making our boats, we were going to put them in our school pool to see who's boat floats for the longest, and who's moves the fastest in the strong wind. Rolling and and peeling the materials made my hands sore.  We made the sails and the foils. 

Lila and I kept rolling, twisting and cutting. It was incredibly exciting.  Our class had a bit more time to finish our boat before we went to test them in the pool.  Things kept breaking off and falling over but we were resilient and determined for our boat to succeed. We did some finishing touches on our boat then we were ready to go.

 It was time test the boats in the pool. We went over to the pool, Lila and I held our paper boat and dropped it into the sparkling water. As soon as our boat hit the water it fall over disappointedly. The winner of the boat competition was Millie and Bridie, The had a flat bottom on their  boat to make it stable. Our boat had a V  shape bottom so that's what  made our boat fall over.  Next time Lila and I would do a flat bottom to make it balance and we would make a bigger sail that has not that much masking tape on it so the boat does not tip. 

We did this activity because newzealand one the america's cup, and that gave us the idea. The america's up runs every four years. Each team from most countries make a boat in those four years and then practice until the competition is on.