There have been some strange craft that have hit the water over the years, here are just five of them!

Hot Tug

The social Hot Tug



Hot tug romanticThe jacuzzi boat
The Hot Tug can't help but make you laugh - a boat that's a jacuzzi, ideal for socialising! No surprise that it's a Dutch company behind it, somehow the waters of Amsterdam seem an ideal location for a craft such as this!

The shoe boat
Sebago's 'shoe boat' was a regular sight at UK regattas last summer, and we expect to see it around during the season again - the lucky competitors at Cowes that got close received free gifts of branded water bottles and caps... no free shoes though!




Sebago Shoe Boat at the Dartmouth Royal Regatta

The Sebago Shoe Boat at the Dartmouth Royal Regatta - photo Jojo Harper/Sebago



 

Hamster Wheel

The Hamster Wheel didn't like the waves and sank in the irish Sea



The Hamster Wheel
This 'Giant Hamster Wheel' was used for an attempted crossing of the Irish Sea (see Charity Bid to Cross Irish Sea in a Hamster Wheel), sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly, it sank as it didn't cope too well with the waves!

Guitar boat

A boat fit for a rock star!



The guitar boat
Australian singer Josh Pyke commissioned had a custom-made Maton guitar boat built for a music video. Pyke rode the 'Guitar Boat' through Sydney Harbour for the music video fo his song Make You Happy (see Video of the Week: Guitar Goes Sailing). The guitar then went on display at Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney before being sold on ebay in aid of charity - it fetched AUS $7,100.

PlastikiThe plastic bottle boat
The 60-foot catamaran Plastiki was made out of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. In March 2010, she set off from San Francisco with a six-person crew to survey the Eastern Garbage Patch, soon-to-be-flooded island nations, damaged and bleached coral reefs, and the acidifying ocean itself. David de Rothschild wrote a book on the crossing, Plasticki; Across the Pacific on Plastic to Save our Oceans is available from Amazon.

For more interesting boats see Top 10 Fantasy Boats.

Written by: Gael Pawson
Gael Pawson is the editor of Yachts & Yachting Magazine and the founder of Creating Waves. A keen racer, she has sailed all her life, and started writing about the subject whilst studying journalism at university. Dinghies and small keelboats are her first loves, but she has cruised and raced a huge variety of boats in locations across the world.