Fix your boat with a potato!

[BenFishing]

Was reading through the tips, and saw a tip about peeling potatoes, and it reminded me of a trick we used to use when poling an old aluminum boat through a lake in norther Louisiana.
If your aluminum boat has a tear, rip, gash, whatever you wanna call it, just take a potato and slide it against the slice, like you're trying to use the slice to peel the potato.  The piece of potato that peels off will close up the hole...for a while.
The boat we used a a 3 inch wide hole, with a gap close to a quarter inch.  The boat was an old beater, and we were just a few kids poling around a shallow lake.  Obviously a true fix is better, but if money is tight, and you wanna hit the water without sinking, it'll work.

[Smallie_Stalker]

   This is one of the oddest and most unconventional tips I have ever heard. and those are my favorite kinds  Thanks for posting this one.

[BenFishing]

Hahaha, no problem.  Learned it from an old Creole dude, when I was a kid in Louisiana.  He could barely speak English, his boat was probably older than his grandparents, but he always had a lot of crawdads and panfish in his cooler.

[ronalddipietro]

a potatoe you say.....son of a gun...

[greyleg]

Reminds me of a drift in a glass canoe we crashed and put a big split into it. We patched it with pine tree pitch.

[BenFishing]

Reminds me of a drift in a glass canoe we crashed and put a big split into it. We patched it with pine tree pitch.

I love being able to use whatever's around to at least to a quick fix.