Okay I just have to respond to this. First of all have any of you considered bulkheads? Second have you considered putting all those little bottles in one at a time through the small hole? C'mon buy some float bags and stick them in once and blow them up as you need them. Also when you use float bags they are freat for holding other things from moving around in your boat while paddling and depending on what it is changing your center of gravity with each ripple in the water. And don't any of you want to spend some time on the water rather than hours filling up your boats with someone elses garbage?

> The bottles come in various sizes. The large 4 liter econo size,
> down to the vending machine 20 oz. Pop bottles are free, be it from
> drinking the stuff, or trash picking. They are also nearly indestructable
> from any means that they would encounter living in a boat. The kiddie
> balls are not free, and I honestly don't know how they'd hold up to
> long term immersion in water. It wouldn't surprise me if they slowly
> filled. Plastic bottles aren't pretty, I'd never argue otherwise,
> but they are free and probably quite effective.

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