Steel is scarce. Wood is not an option. And you need a boat now. These wartime circumstances drove innovation in all kinds of crazy directions, and one somewhat less crazy direction — concrete boats.

This June the waters of Lake Sammamish will see sailboats, Jet Skis and a fleet of unconventional watercraft — concrete canoes. The University of Washington will host the American Society of Civil ...

Auburn Career Center students are banking on making concrete boats float. Applying principles of math, science and design, teams of high school juniors in an architecture and project management class ...

Steel is scarce. Wood is not an option. And you need a boat now. These wartime circumstances drove innovation in all kinds of crazy directions, and one somewhat less crazy direction — concrete boats.

The 43-foot ferro cement sailboat doesn’t look very impressive sitting on the ocean floor about 75 feet deep off Hollywood. It’s plain and bare with no design flourishes. But the latest addition to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. THE UNIVERSITY of Florida team carries its concrete canoe during the ...

The sailboat Usikusiku was built in South Africa out of concrete, trucked to the coast, sailed to the Caribbean and ended its journey in Fort Lauderdale. But it had one final destination: the bottom ...

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