The Importance Of Making A Clipper Ship

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I chose to make a Clipper Ship because it was in my opinion the most interesting part of the book. When Nailer talks about how he would love to have one. I think having one would be pretty cool. Having a big ship to that you can say is yours is just awesome. The Clipper ship is a long narrow wooden vessel with lofty canvas sails, reigned as the world’s fastest oceangoing ships from about 1843 to 1868.

To make my project everything I used on it was stuff that I could reuse. Recycling is an important thing to do, so I think. You should recycle all of you pop cans, plastics, and paper. I used a plastic pop bottle for the main part of the boat (bottom). For the sails I am using a plastic forks to place in the middle of the plastic pop bottle.

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