Wednesday, may 3, 1978
daily nebraskan
page 9
Students paddle 160 lb concrete canoe to first victory
By Kris Hansen
A concrete canoe may not inspire confidence, but Mo
UNL engineering students paddled one to victory April
29 at the annual concrete canoe races at Manhattan, Kan.
Senior Ellen Ramirez of Morrill and junior Maryann
Clauss of Des Plaines, 111., brought the 5Vi foot, 160
pound canoe to a first place finish in the women's
Center looks for owner
of tapes about marraige
Members of the Women's Resource Center are looking
for the owner of several encounter program tapes and
supplemental booklets ' ft at the center about three
months ago.
Sandin Gardner, WRC staff member, estimated the
tapes' value at $300.
The encounter program, from the Human Development
Institute of Bell and Howell laboratories,' is described on
the program box as "an experience designed to enhance
and enrich the marriage relationship."
It continues to say that it is designed for "marriages
with joyful and satisfied" relationships to enable an "in
creasing awareness of each others feelings."
Gardner said WRC staff members have no idea whom
or where it came from. The encounter program arrived
one day, evidently with plans to stay, Gardner said.
"We just want it to go to whomever it belongs to",
Gardner said. "Or, if it really belongs to us, would some
one please tell us who gave it to us?"
Gardner suggested the encounter package might have
been lost in the mail and accidehtly was delivered to the
WRC. Gardner said claimees will be screened and must be
prepared to adequately identify their property.
If no one claims the encounter program, Gardner said,
the WRC may donate it to the psychology department.
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division Saturday. The men's crew was eliminated in the
semi-finals, but the faculty team placed fourth out of six.
'This turned out to be a really fun thing for
everybody," said Richard Delorm, UNL assistant profes
sor of engineering and project supervisor. "It's not exactly
an economical canoe, but it's a learning experience and a
challenge."
Engineering students annually design and construct a
concrete canoe. The concrete mix includes insulation,
steam -puffed clay, fly ash, concrete, water "and a bag or
two of bean bag refills-our own brand of styrofoam,"
Delorm said.
"We start designing and recruiting builders and rowers
in September every year. We start from scratch," Delorm
said. "There are no carry-over students-just what we
learned from the previous year."
UNL has been building boats for six years. "Our first
one weighed 450 pounds. It floated, but it wasn't very
competitive, although we did knock out some of the com
petition," Delorm recalled.
The next year the canoe was down to 265 pounds,
with a thicker shell and broader keel. The canoe's weight
dropped each year until it reached 130 pounds, Delorm
said. '
"That was a short boat-only eleven feet. It was really
too short. It couldn't float high enough to keep the water
out, and waves kept coming over the sides and swamping
it. We've had our mishaps," he said.
One of the pre-race requirements is to sink the canoe
to prove it can float to the top again.
"We've had a few bad moments there, too," he said.
"Once, one broke in half and sat there in the water with
both ends pointing up in the air."
The boat floats because it displaces its own weight in
the water, Delorm said.
"All we have to do is to' make the shell so it will sink
in and displace 150 pounds. Even if we used concrete full
of big rock chunks, we could make it float it the shell
was wide enough. Concrete is just like steel. The ocean is
full of steel boats," Delorm said.
However, concrete is not practical, he said.
"It took 100 to 120 man hours to build it, and you
can't sell something like that in competition with a plexi
glass canoe. It's just for the experience of learning about
light-weight concrete, and for the fun of doing it," he
said.
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