The challenge: build a fire-fighting ship to put out a blaze on an island in the middle of a lake.

Oops! Robert and Cathy’s garden sheds are on fire and the teams have to race to see who can put out the blaze first! An added problem is that the sheds are on a small island in the middle of a lake. So each team must build a fireboat that will carry all the members plus a water pump (motor or hand-driven). The first to extinguish the flames and land on the island will be able to retrieve a flag and then race to a finish line to win the Scrapheap Challenge trophy.

Click here for Robert's dramatic interpretation of a fireboat.

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