chosenbytheocean: (PB - oooooo)
Moana ([personal profile] chosenbytheocean) wrote in [community profile] sixthiterationlogs2017-09-05 09:04 pm

12 Building A Boat~! [OPEN MINGLE]

WHO: Moana
WHERE: 7i Beach Area [Also around the 7i Boat House & Town looking for stuff]
WHEN: Month of September
OPEN TO: EVERYONE [Feel free to make top posts if you'd like as well. Moana will hit everyone up but this is open to whatever people want.]
WARNINGS: None






Throughout the month, Moana was at the beachfront assembling different parts of a boat. She had the design sketched on few pieces of paper though the sketches were not very good.

She had spoken to a lot of people about building a boat and will accept everyone's help with its construction. They needed pieces of wood, someone to build the hull, stronger materials for the sail, which meant that Moana was back to collecting reeds and stalks that wouldn't absorb the water as it sprayed up from the ocean. She really needed a better drawing of the boat and its design, even if she was bad at trying to explain what she wanted to build. The hull needed to be shaped from a single piece of wood to avoid leaks. As well as the side-canoe that would help keep the craft balanced on rocky waves.

Everything had to be collected from the new parts of the island since it would take too much effort and time to try to carry all the pieces through the now small breach between the canyon walls. When Moana wasn't working the boat she'd watch others work and encourage those around her to join. It was something like an event. If there were enough people come night fall Moana would start a large bone fire and cook fish. She would welcome others to lend a hand in any part of any process. Much like her home, she wanted to build a community of people working together and helping.

She could be spotted around the 7i boathouse looking for any useful materials, as well as rummaging through the other houses on the way back to the beach. She also brought a handful of tools from the inn, including a grappling hook that she had found in the inn's storage closet. Moana wasn't sure how anyone might use it but it looked useful enough to take with her.


Image References: Moana's Boat, Boat One, Boat Two, Drawing One, Drawing Two, Drawing Three, Drawing Four.
enterprisingheart: (what about the [technobabble])

[personal profile] enterprisingheart 2017-12-21 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Not quite. It's closer to a very thick sort of sap. If you're familiar with pine trees, it will sometimes ooze from their bark a little and make it sticky."

And then proceed to be entirely irritating to get off of ones skins with a fair bit of washing, but he figures that isn't something that he needs to mention just at the moment. Mostly because it's not terribly relevant to the explanation of what tar is, and if Moana should happen to go looking for herself she'll no doubt find out in relatively short order anyway.

"But as long as what you're using won't absorb water it should absolutely do fine."