Can A Concrete Boat Float? Poem by Terence George Craddock

some bright spark came up with an idea
to build an entire boat out of concrete
an entire hull poured made of concrete
critics laughed said concrete does not float
wood floats ships are made of wood
they were told iron steel does not float
but ships are made from iron and steel
concrete ships built of steel ferrocement

ferrocement construction materials are cheap
cheap materials no specialist tools needed
reinforced concrete not steel or wood
Joseph-Louis Lambot in Southern France
in 1848 built the oldest known ferrocement
watercraft a dinghy using iron reinforcement