Design a Newspaper Boat: Tips & Tricks

[stanford1463]

Homework Statement

Newspaper Boat- So I have been thinking about designing a newspaper boat out of pure entertainment. I want to build a boat out of shellack, tape, and newspaper, to maximize speed (to race people in swimming pools). considering i have some amount of these supplies, what would be the best design? how should I go about doing this?

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The Attempt at a Solution

I've thought of building a boat in the shape of a kayak, since kayaks seem to go the fastest with their thin build. but how should I layer the boat with newspaper and tape/shellack? any ideas/hints? any good websites for researching into this? Thanks!

 

[Delphi51]

Sounds like fun! You really should play with it before looking anything up.