How to Build a Lego Boat

Legos, those humble plastic blocks, can be the building blocks of anything and everything in imagination. Would you like to get started? Build a Lego boat, then let your creative juices run.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Assemble the man who will be the captain of your Lego boat. You need hair or a hat, torso and legs.

2. Chose a suitable bow for your boat and snap it onto gunwales.

3. Create a command center, or bridge, by putting together three pieces: a triangle with grooves instead of a bump, a flat piece with two bumps and a thin, smooth piece for the top. Snap the command center just behind the bow.

4. Make the stern of the Lego boat with a triangle piece with grooves instead if bumps, a flat piece with two bumps, a flat piece with one central bump and a rudder. Snap the piece onto the stern. Make sure you put the rudder on so that it's facing away from the stern of the Lego boat and angle the rudder downward. Snap a seat inside the Lego boat behind the command center.

5. Snap on a piece that looks like the arch over a swamp boat's fan and create a tiller by snapping together a piece that looks like the top of a baster with a tiller. Attach tiller to one side of the seat. Install a second tiller the other side of the boat as well.

6. Add an antenna and install your captain. Now you have a fetching Lego boat.

Resources

• Check out the Lego boats on 43 Things.
• Nathan Sawaya is building a 10-foot Lego speedboat.