I wasn't looking to use pour foam, but actually block styrofoam like what you'd find under a floating dock. I was going to fill my plastic containers with it to help protect it from being damaged. The foam in a can stuff was just to give the top of the "pontoon" a mostly watertight seal, not for bouyancy. I know I put this in the kayak section, as my original post was related to kayaks. Now my plan has changed to a 1 man pontoon boat. I know I could save up some money and buy a used kayak and save myself all the trouble of building something. While buying a real kayak is something I plan on doing later on down the road, that's not my plan right now. My plan as of now, is to see if this crazy idea I have will work. Not to see if I can find an alternative to my crazy idea that might be more expensive and made by a corporation who has people and machines that build their boats for them.

You could consider a boat like mine. I have posted pictures of it before. It's called a Mouse Boat (Google it there's a lot of info on them). It can hold over 200 lbs. weighs less than 50 lbs. and is only 8' long (easy transporting and storing). It's made of the luan wood (pooed on before) but mine has been to heck and back for a year now and is still going strong. I built this one using PL Premium construction glue (no expensive epoxy) some nails and paint. It has a strong, rigid hull and has safety air boxes so it won't sink even with the cockpit fully flooded (plus they provided tons of dry storage). And the best part....they can be easily built (probably less than 40 hours), requires simple tools to construct and less than $100.00 for a completed boat.





And if you�re a big fella, here is another one with all the same type attributes as the Mouse Boat (light, cheap and easy to build), but this one will hold over 300 lbs.



I have also used both boats with a trolling motor and I am building one now that will be equipped for sailing.

Now that one looks like fun. Something simple and easy that I could say I built myself. That's my biggest thing. I'd rather say "I built this myself" than "I bought this myself". DIY always gives you much more appreciate for what you created and gives you the skills needed to do something bigger and better, as you are doing

Hey Urbanfisher.... Is your boat flat bottom? Do you have trouble with tracking? Do you have a site that we can access for directions on how to build this boat?

I think he just said-"I built this myself"

I appreciate your wanting to build something. Just don't end up looking like this guy. The guy just wanted to fish now his picture has gone all over the world as a joke. Good luck!

The mouse boats are neat ,they sail them in a 200 mile race on the coast.
The luan needs to be sealed in something ,epoxy and fiberglass cloth is the best, but a good coat of paint if you keep it touched up will work also.
Ron

JJ4MEL, The white one has a flat bottom with keel strips. The red one has a curved bottom with a skeg (fin). They both track nicely, but the red one tracks the best. They are both very stable and I can easily stand up in the white one (haven't tried in the red one yet).

I don't have exact instructions on how to build them, but some web searching should get you through it. Building one looks much more intimidating than it actually is.

The two boats may look very similar, but they are completely different build methods. The Mouse Boat (red one) is a stitch and glue build. Instead of epoxy and fiberglass, I just used dry wall tape and PL Premium. The white boat is a framing log build. That one I basically built with wood, nails, paint and Titebond II. Each one cost less than $100.00 to build (around $85.00 for the mouse boat and $95.00 for the white one).

That looks like a lot of fun. The only problem I see with that is the last picture, where it shows the dog sitting in the boat in the pool. Guessing at the dog's size, an average person would take up almost the whole boat while trying to fit in it, would probably capsize it due to the weight of a human compared to a dog would break the wood, or the weight would make it drop below the waterline. Not a bad idea, but I woulda went with 16 foot boards that were a little thicker. But I could be wrong....