Miss Adventure "Float"
Surviving the terrible storm is only the beginning of my story. I have been stranded on what seems to be a deserted island. Fortunately, the wreckage of The Miss Adventure is hung up on a reef. My first challenge was getting supplies from the ship to the shore. This is what we did...
We thought of the design and drew it on paper and then built it. Next, we tried out the model. We placed the model in a bucket of water to test its seaworthiness. Some of our classmates swished the water around and it looked like a tidal wave! It was rather scary looking. The boat has to be stable in rolling waters to be useful in tranferring the supplies from the ship. Our boat proved to be reliable. The boat must carry all the supplies from the wrecked ship to the island before they were sunk forever. You have to have patience and persistence to make LEGOCAD work properly. Sometimes we had to build supports for the winch to work down to the level we wanted to place it. Then we had to delete those extra pieces. Sometimes the pieces don't go where you want them to go and sometimes you get mad. The wheels on the bottom are to make it float. The anchor is to make it stop in the water where you want. We built a pawl and ratchet so the anchor does not just drop straight down.
