Thursday, February 09, 2006

How To Make A Sombrero-Boat:

1. Find a box, the bigger the better, refrigerator boxes work well, and can be found outside the dumpsters of most home improvement warehouses.

2. Find some tape, duct tape will work the best.

3. Destructure the box and lay it flat.
4. Fold the flattened box in half, hamburger style.

5. Fold the closed end of the folded box from the corner to the middle. Tape it down

6. Flip box over, repeat step 5.

7. Fold one side of the open end upwards.

8. Flip box over, repeat step 7.

9. Fold the flaps back over so that you can see the top triangle of the boat from both sides.

10. Fold the leftover box flaps over so that a triangle is formed. Tape those flaps down.

11. Open out from the middle and flatten the opposite way, this may take some serious ass-kicking of the boat, but make it work so that it is in a diamond shape.

12. Fold the bottom point of one side up to meet the top point, once again, you'll have to show the box who is boss. Tape it down.

13. Flip box over, repeat step 12.

14. Open box out from the middle, flatten it out if you can, otherwise just beat the crap out of the open end until it looks like a boat, use more tape for added flavor, decorate, name your boat, have a mexican sombrero-boat party, send your dog sailing, etc.

(Skippy, the how2dostuff dog, models a sombreroboat, while inside of a one)

(We gave these three homeless guys five dollars and a pack of smokes so they would be in this picture)

25 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:25 PM

    Fricken awesome idea; foggy instructions.

    8/10

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  2. Anonymous8:18 PM

    Yeah, the instructions aren't terribly clear. Sounds like it would take a couple tries to figure it out.

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  3. Seems like some large-scale origami...

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  4. Anonymous10:58 PM

    weren't the homelesses the ones building the boat? yea nice try to cover that up guys

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  5. Anonymous11:38 PM

    I'm pretty sure that was a joke...

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  6. Anonymous6:06 PM

    mexicans use it to get a cross there border :D

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  7. Anonymous7:24 PM

    Lol, I made 1, it doesn't float well, lol

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  8. Anonymous4:07 PM

    kickass!

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  9. Anonymous10:33 PM

    who comes up with this shit?

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  10. Anonymous4:47 PM

    Omg again takin from board.com

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  11. Anonymous9:45 AM

    This has gotta be the most worthless tutorial I have ever had the irritation of reading how ever the hidden book one makes up for this stupid article in sheer briliance

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  12. Anonymous5:15 PM

    Fuck You, I spent 2 fucking hours trying to fold this piece of shit and it did not even come out right do to the shitty instructions. FUCK YOU

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  13. Anonymous5:32 PM

    omg awsome idea... btw ur dog is realli cute >.> i haev a sheltie too XD its jsut that if i ever tried to put him in a sombrero boat he'll probably 1)try to eat it 2)get out of it in like a second 3)somehow destory it...

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  15. Anonymous1:54 PM

    good idea, but the instructions are unclear. Perhaps it would be better to show the instructions using paper in addition to the cardboard ones.

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