Sheep Poo Canoe Headed for France… If it Doesn’t Sink First
July 25, 2009 · Print This Article
A pair of intrepid Welsh entrepreneurs will be paddling across the English Channel in a canoe they made from a mixture of recycled paper and sheep poo. Lez Paylor and Lawrence Toms covered a canoe frame in the sheep poo paper and a paste made from flour and water, and waterproofed it using beeswax and soya bean extract resin.
Though the two Welshmen, whose paper company Creative Paper Wales makes the sheep poo paper, tested the canoe recently, Toms isn’t confident that it’ll make it to France.
From BBC News:
“I’m not even confident it will operate in a bath!” he said.
“It was my business partner [Lez Paylor] who built it. I’ve been training in a swimming pool so I can swim 15 miles in cold water!”
The Bala maiden voyage supported some of Mr Toms’ concerns. Despite managing about five miles (8km), a small leak had caused a soggy patch about the size and shape of a sheep, he said.
The pair will attempt to cross anyway in the hopes of raising money for the Wales Air Ambulance.
“Rural Wales really depends on the air ambulance and if we can do something entirely preposterous and raise them a few quid, it would be a nice way to give something back,” he said.
Link [BBC News]
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