Wood Floats ......?

[road hog]

so why do wooden boats sink..?

even if they fill with water , the = of water inside and outside should be equal, so the buoyancy of the wood should stop the boat from sinking ..but it dosnt..?

[Vieste]

[groucho]

That pic is classic. LMAO

[Vieste]

Very true on the wood part

[Pints]

Hang about. Woods floats. Ducks gloat.
Ergo, ducks must be made of wood.

[DrTre]

What about ducks? Why don't we build boats out of ducks? They never sink.

[Pints]

DrTre said:

What about ducks? Why don't we build boats out of ducks? They never sink.

Great minds.

[chrisp59]

Natalie Wood didn't.

[PoleDriver]

Pints said:

Hang about. Woods floats. Ducks gloat.
Ergo, ducks must be made of wood.

DrTre said:

What about ducks? Why don't we build boats out of ducks? They never sink.

That's why they are gloating at you!

[Major Fallout]

Just being pedantic but not all wood floats.

[marcosgt]

PoleDriver said:

That's why they are gloating at you!

Exactly it's their smug gloating, we can't give them the satisfaction of building boats out of them

M.

[Pints]

PoleDriver said:

Pints said:

Hang about. Woods floats. Ducks gloat.
Ergo, ducks must be made of wood.

DrTre said:

What about ducks? Why don't we build boats out of ducks? They never sink.

That's why they are gloating at you!

Blasted autocorrect.

[Vieste]

Where did PeanutHead post go ??

This is barking mad i did see him post I'm sure i did.

[Simpo Two]

road hog said:

so why do wooden boats sink..?

even if they fill with water , the = of water inside and outside should be equal, so the buoyancy of the wood should stop the boat from sinking ..but it dosnt..?

Because of other stuff on board that is denser than water I suspect.

[anonymous-user]

Who says that wood floats? There are MANY species of timber that do not float!

Also when boyant timbers get saturated, they can start to sink.

As others have said, if the boat is empty (i.e. no other crap on board) it should just still float when flooded, but if there is stuff on board, then it will sink.

[Slink]

i agree, mythbusters did a thing on the first pirates of the Caribbean film when they walk underwater under the upturned boat.

even when they drilled holes in the boat so all the air would leave, it still didnt sink, they had to put loads of weight attached to it to make it sink.

so extra weight, i.e. ballast, makes boats sink.

[thinfourth2]

Because most are sailing boats which have about a ton of lead bolted to the bottom

[MBBlat]

A little known greek bloke might have the answer you are looking for
Archimedes principle

Basically the boat shaped hole in the water keeps the boat afloat, the hull of the boat just keeps the water out of this hole. Let the water in & the boat sinks

Most people don't realise how heavy water is - a cubic meter of the stuff weighs around a tonne (1.0252 tonnes for seawater to be precise, 0.999 tonnes for fresh) so displacing it can support a lot of weight.

[Simpo Two]

MBBlat said:

Basically the boat shaped hole in the water keeps the boat afloat, the hull of the boat just keeps the water out of this hole. Let the water in & the boat sinks

For metal yes, but the OPs question assumed it was 100% wood that was lighter than water. In that case, it will float even if holed.

[Asterix]

Water - 1 litre = 1kg pretty much.

Very convenient