How to make a kayak from film and branches Bashny.Net

What to do in a situation where there is no boat at hand, but you just need to cross a water barrier? You can, of course, like Robinson Crusoe, cut down an eight-meter tree and then spend three months carving some kind of Indian pie out of it.

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A faster, simpler and traditionally witty option is offered by a video blogger from St. Petersburg Maxim Egorov, with whom we have already introduced readers.





Tourists, hunters, fishermen and all lovers of nature recreation will be useful for his life hack for the manufacture of a light kayak from spruce branches and packaging film.

How to make a boat with your own hands



To begin with, you need to stock up on a roll of the most thick (from 20 to 35 micrometers) packaging film and tape for connecting all parts and prompt repair of damage. Everything else can be found and cooked in the forest.





kayaking frame includes longitudinal (stringers) and transverse (spangouts) ribs of stiffness connected with tape. Fresh spruce branches are perfect for the manufacture of spangoats, due to their strength.





They must first be cleaned of bark, and then wrapped around a thick tree and fixed in this position. After a day, the branches will dry and acquire the desired shape.





Stringers lawyer Egorov recommends making natural chips broken by the wind trees. Such chips, in his opinion, are much stronger and lighter than slats from the sawmill.





The body of a single boat consists of 10 stringers and 4-6 frames of different sizes. Another oval frame is needed to create a hatch. Having connected all the details with tape, you can proceed to tightening the structure.





To do this, you need to hang the body on ropes between two trees, and then rotate, gradually wrapping the packaging film (usually enough 3 layers). It is easier to do it together, but with a certain skill you can cope alone.





At the final stage, you need to cut the inlet hole, and the remnants of the film wrap on the sides and strengthen with tape. The result is a lightweight, relatively durable and budget-friendly single kayak, the entire manufacturing process of which can be seen in this video.

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Homemade kayak packaging film is good because the film is not sorry and damage. And if necessary, it is easy to wind a new one in 20 minutes. Additional bonuses include a transparent bottom that allows you to admire the life of freshwater inhabitants.





Of the disadvantages can be called insufficient for serious tasks strength. To raft on rough rivers, as you know, on such a boat is still not worth it. But crossing through small reservoirs and fishing, for lack of other boats, it is quite convenient.

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