I got a neighbor who built a pontoon boat for our lake out of stainless steel

[NNN0LHI]

Man he was darn proud of that baby on the day of the big launch last week. He had installed two "fighting" chairs for him and his wife to fish from and some nice indoor/outdoor carpeting on the floor. Man she was a beauty shining in the bright sunlight that day.

He let it slip off of the trailer into the water and him and his wife jumped aboard and it made it out about 40 feet from shore before it sunk like the Titanic.

Too heavy.

I thought it was odd when he told me he had it made out of stainless steel rather than aluminum but I didn't say anything. What do I know?

He was out unbolting the chairs and removing the carpeting for the garbage man to take yesterday. He said he was going to tow it to some junkyard and see how much they will give him for the scrap stainless shaped like a pontoon boat.

I must note this fellow is a dyed in the wool Republican.

Don

[HopeHoops]

1. The steel wasn't too heavy.

It wasn't air tight. You can build a boat out of concrete if the volume of air below the surface is sufficient to keep it floating.

[NNN0LHI]

2. The pontoons didn't have water in them

Too heavy ... or not enough buoyancy? Or both? Whatever it sunk. He had a hell of a time dragging that thing out of the water. I though he was going to blow the engine up in his truck.

Don

[jobycom]

5. Too small, most likely.

The air in the pontoons has to be light enough to float the amount of steel he used. Aluminum is lighter, so it needs smaller pontoons. Stainless steel would float, but the pontoons would have to be larger. Shape has something to do with it, too.

There's so much irony in your story it's impossible to cover it all--Republican ignoring laws of physics, not taking all factors into account, thinking that a superficial resemblance to a working model would have the same results as the working model...

[Schema Thing]

7. and indeed they do build boats out of concrete...

...which I must admit surprised the hell out of me.

[whistler162]

18. Concrete Liberty ships.

http://www.concreteships.org/ships/ww1/atlantus/

[Jamastiene]

3. "Hey y'all, watch this!"

I've heard those words where I live...often. Most of the time, it ends in disaster too.

[Arkansas Granny]

20. That remark is usually followed by "Here, hold my beer".

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. Sadly, I've said both of these things

Well, I'm from Jersey, so I didn't say, "y'all", I said, "you guys."

[Jamastiene]

24. Same difference.

:rofl:

[driver8]

4. That's pretty funny!

I feel bad about laughing at the misfortune of others, but that is pretty freakin' funny!!

[Shell Beau]

6. Oops!

[flvegan]

8. Fighting chairs? For a lake? Is this Loch Ness, per chance?

[Jamastiene]

10. What is a fighting chair?

Is that like, "My recliner can beat your bar stool's ass?"

:P

:hide:

[whistler162]

19. A fishin' chair for the reeeaalllly big fish....

they was a gonna catch in that lake.

[DS1]

13. No, they're just taking their normal routine outdoors

I SAID GIMMIE A BEER, BITCH!

NO YOU DRUNK ASSHOLE, YOU'VE ALREADY HAD ENOUGH!

repeat



fighting chairs

[SacredCow]

9. Generally Speaking....

For an object to float in water, its density must be less than water. The steel of his boat was certainly more dense; however, if it had displaced enough water it would have floated. The key is that the density of the ENTIRE craft must be less than that of water.

But then again- adding two Republicans (Density roughly equal to that of lead) to ANY watercraft is a recipe for disaster (or hilarity in this case).

[bluesbassman]

11. It was probably the life size Rush Limbaugh masthead that did him in.

No amount of water displacement could overcome that.

[Mugu]

12. Walk around a man-of-war sometime.

With all the steel you'd think that they would float like a brick.

[petronius]

14. Too bad you weren't filming the launching ceremony - I'd love to see

his reaction. :rofl:

If it floated for a little bit, I'd guess it wasn't watertight (or else it was dragging along the bottom the whole time). There's nothing wrong with using steel - it's what most ships are made of - but I bet he used dimensions for a lighter material. Poor guy... :)

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Stainless Steel? What an ass. Our pontoon boat is fiberglass.

[flvegan]

16. Elitist.

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Yup.

All 17 feet of it. Smallest boat at the marina.

:eyes:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. Freeper

[baldguy]

25. Fiberglass & aluminum are for pinko Frenchie sissies.

Real 'Merkins build their boats out of 'Merkin STEEL!

'Course the steel is probably from Mexico & the damn thing sank - but still...

[Blue Diadem]

17. That would have made a good video.

That couldn't have been cheap to make either, not with all that stainless steel.

[MajorChode]

26. He's not the only Repug to have grand ideas that just didn't pan out

The good news is they should be used to utter and complete failure by now.

[MrScorpio]

27. Didn't enough time to properly calculate the water displacement, did he?

Maybe he'll get it right the next time