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.

Concrete ships sound like a bad idea, but Archimedes' Principle proves otherwise. Here is why engineers turned to this ...

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.

It's not your typical boat — but a team of MUN students are confident their concrete canoe will soon be ready to race. "Yes, the canoe will float!" laughed Emma Reddick, co-captain of Memorial ...

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 ...

The concrete boat on the shores of Bulingugwe Island on Lake Victoria. It has been in that position since 1978. PHOTO BY HENRY LUBEGA Little known Lwanga says despite the boat having been around for a ...

It’s all about concrete marinas for a group of UMass Lowell students who loaded their 19-foot, 8-inch boat into a truck Monday morning, bound for an American Society of Civil Engineers contest in ...

Captain Carter Quillen and First Mate Diane Eggers, partners in both boating and life, brought their solar-powered concrete boat to Jacksonville on Tuesday and urged Floridians to vote against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Proposed overview of renovated boat ramp structure at Causeway Park in Port Orange, featuring new concrete floating docks, ...

It’s all about concrete marinas for a group of UMass Lowell students who loaded their 19-foot, 8-inch boat into a truck Monday morning, bound for an American Society of Civil Engineers contest in ...