http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-20516205
A toy boat is to attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
A retired NATO scientist will this week set the boat off on the voyage, which he hopes will be the first unmanned trip across the Atlantic.
Robin Lovelock has spent four years developing the miniature vessel, which he believes can survive the 6,000 mile journey.
The Daily Telegraph reports that the Snoopy Sloop is only 4ft long, weighs just 30lbs and is held together in parts by bathroom light cord.
65-year-old Lovelock built the boat in the games room of his house in Sunninghill, Berkshire.
He made the whole thing from off-the-shelf parts scoured from the internet at a cost of less than £450 ($720).
Lovelock said: "I got hooked about four years ago, I didn't even play with model boats when I was a boy. I sometimes tinker on the boat in the lounge, but am usually banished to the games room by my wife."
Lovelock and his team are hoping that wind power and a solar-powered computer and GPS system will navigate the boat all the way to the finish line.
Watch some footage of the Snoopy Sloop below:
Anyone else fancy a try if this attempt fails?, but seriously this guy will hopefully succeed, he's certainly put in a lot of time and effort and that "Jack" on the mast will look great coming in to land in the good old US of A won't it!.
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Another Eureka moment for you
From John Teal.
This first picture suggests the madness of glazing before spray painting, but its actually the product of a Eureka moment. Glazing that slots in without gluing, hence it can be removed.
From inside you can see the clear plastic and the inner frame can be slid up and out from
a pocket constructed behind the wheel house wall.
to allow the inside and outside of the wheel house to be sprayed different colours.
The end result showing the inner frame independently sprayed silver and slotted into the wheel house with the glazing behind it. No glue marks on what are big windows... Eureka !
Thanks for that John!.
This is part of a new series of Eureka Moments that can be found
This is part of a new series of Eureka Moments that can be found
on the tab up at the top, or by clicking Here
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Hope you enjoyed to-day's post, don't forget its the Club auction to-night as well.
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