Winter evenings, long boat watches, rainy afternoons looking after the kids - there's plenty of opportunity to learn new folding techniques and perfect your skills. So impress your friends by making original paper boats. Here's a stylized catboat model, yet elegant and with a choice of sheers!
For this model, we use square papers, ideally with two sides of a different color.
Preparing folds
This is an extremely quick folding pattern. This time, the sail will be the color of the underside of the sheet.
To begin, fold the sheet diagonally.
Next, the base of the figure is folded upwards to form the shape of the hull. You can adjust the height and inclination of the hull as you wish, thanks to this fold. Feel free to experiment with different shapes.
Then the last fold is undone, the figure turned over and the fold marked again on this side.
And the hull appears!
Finally, this fold is inverted to create the boat.
And here's a sailboat that's a change from the traditional model!
Get your papers!
