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- Page 1 Story and Instructions...
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Page 2: Safety Information
› › › IMPORTANT INFORMATION Dear Parents, Safety Information Engineering is an extremely exciting and vast field. This kit, WARNING: along with its illustrated storybook and instruction manual, provides an engaging way to teach simple engineering CHOKING HAZARD — Small parts. concepts to preschool-age kids. - Page 3 Story by Dan Freitas and Ted McGuire Illustrations by Dan Freitas and Ashley Greenleaf 567011-02-140217...
- Page 4 Boat Engineer › › › KIT CONTENTS Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check off What’s inside your kit: Description Qty. Item No. 6-hole panel 7330-W85-C1O 2-hole rod 7330-W85-H1K Dowel, 4 cm 7268-W85-B1O Dowel, 8 cm 7330-W85-A1O 1-hole end track 7330-W85-P1O Flat triangle with peg 7330-W85-U1G Convex block...
- Page 5 Meet the Omega Family! Ty and Karlie Omega are siblings. They live in a small city Ty loves figuring out how called Makersville. Ty and Karlie’s dad is a writer. He writes things work. Karlie loves science fiction stories. Their mom is a mechanical engineer. building things.
- Page 6 Huxley and Remus’ Unexpected Boat Adventure Begins . . . On a sunny summer day, Ty, Karlie, and their parents took As soon as Randy hit the water, his mechanical fins started a trip to the beach. Huxley and Remus decided to stay at flapping wildly.
- Page 7 Boat Engineer KIMMY THE CANOE Huxley and Remus hurriedly built the canoe. “Hi, I’m Kimmy the Canoe. Grab your paddles and let’s get going!” A canoe is a long, narrow boat with two pointed ends. The front of a boat is called the bow and the back is called the stern.
- Page 8 Huxley and Remus paddled down the river in the canoe. They were able to follow Randy thanks to Huxley’s handy fish tracker. “According to the tracker, Randy swam into that swamp,” Huxley said pointing ahead. “Paddling through a swamp will be tough,” said Remus.
- Page 9 Boat Engineer Boat Engineer STEVIE THE SWAMP BOAT Continued >>>...
- Page 10 Boat Engineer Done! “Hi there fellas,” Stevie the Swamp Boat said to Remus and Huxley. “I’m a special type of fan-propelled boat called a swamp boat, or airboat. I have a flat bottom so I can glide over shallow and marshy areas. And my propeller doesn’t stick down into the water like on a normal boat, so it can’t get caught in the mud or swamp plants.
- Page 11 Flying above the surface of the swamp on Stevie the The wind had picked up while they were in the swamp, Swamp Boat, Huxley and Remus started catching up and this gave Huxley an idea. to Randy. All the plants in the swamp made it hard for “If we build a sailboat, we can use the wind to push us Randy to swim fast.
- Page 12 Boat Engineer SAMMY THE SAILBOAT Huxley and Remus built the sailboat. “Hi, I’m Sammy the Sailboat. The wind’s blowin’, let’s get goin’,” he said. Sailboats are pushed through the water by their sails. There are many types of sailboats, from small single-person sailboats with just one sail, to huge sailing ships Done! with many masts and many sails.
- Page 13 Sammy’s sail caught the wind and they were off! Huxley and Remus sped down the river in the sailboat, once again hot on the trail of Randy the runaway robot fish. The powerful wind brought them within feet of catching Randy. But before they could catch him, the wind suddenly died down.
- Page 14 Boat Engineer RUBY THE RIVERBOAT...
- Page 15 Boat Engineer ADAM THE ROBOTIC ARM “Ruby the Riverboat, at your service,” Ruby said to Remus and Huxley. “I have a large wheel on my stern with many paddles, or blades, on it. My steam engine makes the wheel turn, and one after the other, the paddles push into the water.
- Page 16 Huxley and Remus steamed down the river at a steady pace, propelled by Ruby the Riverboat’s stern paddle wheel. They were back on Randy’s trail. Huxley glanced down at his fish tracker and noticed that Randy was getting farther away from them. “I think we need a faster boat!”...
- Page 17 Boat Engineer STU THE SPEEDBOAT “Let’s go!” shouted Stu the Speedboat excitedly. “I’m one of the fastest boats around. Speedboats like me are designed for speed. We can’t carry too much weight and we aren’t the biggest boats, but we can race through the water at tremendous speeds.
- Page 18 Stu sure was speedy. Huxley and Remus were once again tight on Randy’s heels — or The group followed the conveyor belt into rather, his fins! And it was not a moment too another room where they heard a buzzing soon, for the river had flowed into a canal, sound.
- Page 19 Boat Engineer FRANNIE THE FIRE RESCUE BOAT Continued >>>...
- Page 20 Boat Engineer Boat Engineer Frannie the Fire Rescue Boat didn’t waste any time introducing herself. She immediately motored over to the blazing freighter and started blasting the fire with powerful streams of water from her nozzles. Fireboats have pumps that can take up water and spray it onto shoreline Done! or shipboard fires.
- Page 21 Boat Engineer The group followed the conveyor belt into another room With the help of Frannie the Fire Rescue Boat, where they heard a buzzing sound. Huxley and Remus were able to put out the fire. “I think there’s a bee in the room,” said Karlie. “Thanks for your help, Mr.
- Page 22 Boat Engineer FREDDIE THE FREIGHTER...
- Page 23 Boat Engineer Huxley and Remus repaired the freighter. Done! “Ahoy! I’m Freddie the Freighter. Thanks for getting me back into tip-top shape. Freighters are huge ocean-going vessels that carry large amounts of goods around the world, between different ports. Most of your toys were likely transported part of the way from the places they were made to your home by ocean freighters like me.
- Page 24 In the park, Huxley, Ty, and Karlie found Toro standing by the blimp with Ruby’s grandchildren, Derek and Daniella. Along with Captain Ron, Huxley and Remus cruised “Toro, we found you!” shouted Karlie. “And you must be Ruby’s down the canal, hoping Randy hadn’t swam too far. grandkids.”...
- Page 25 Boat Engineer TAMMY THE TUGBOAT Side View Continued >>>...
- Page 26 Boat Engineer “Toot Toot! I’m Tammy the Tugboat!” Tammy called out. “I’m a small but very powerful boat that can push and pull large freighters and ships through narrow passages and crowded harbors. I have big Done! bumpers all around me so I can push against the sides of huge boats and to protect me if I bump into other boats or piers.
- Page 27 While Remus and Huxley were on the tugboat, Huxley’s fish tracker started beeping furiously. Huxley scanned the waters and saw Randy swimming toward the beach. “Remus! Look! There he is! We’re not losing him this time. Let’s build a hydroplane boat. He can’t outrun a super- fast racing boat.”...
- Page 28 Boat Engineer HUMBOLDT THE HYDROPLANE...
- Page 29 Boat Engineer “Howdy! I’m Humboldt the Hydroplane. I move at such great speeds that I’m actually a little bit more like an airplane than a boat! My hull is designed in a special way to create a special type of lift that pushes me up out of the water. When I’m moving fast enough, there are moments when I am completely up out of the water, flying Done! through the air just above the surface of the water.
- Page 30 “We’ve almost got him!” laughed Huxley as Humboldt the and how they had chased him all the way from the river near the Hydroplane zoomed across the water just a short distance from house. the beach. “We have to get Randy back to the house so no one “Don’t worry about it.
- Page 31 Boat Engineer CARA THE CATAMARAN Continued >>>...
- Page 32 Boat Engineer “Hello! I’m Cara the Catamaran. I have two hulls instead of one. This helps me stay very stable in the water. I don’t need a long keel, which is the board that sticks down into the water to prevent a sailboat from tipping over. Instead, my stability comes from my wide beam.
- Page 33 Boat Engineer BONUS EXPERIMENT 1: WHAT FLOATS? Test different objects to see whether they are able to float in water. You can test a rock, cork, nail, rubber band, feather, piece of yarn, plastic building block, and more. Cork Rock Nail Bowl of water When an object sinks in water, it simply presses the water to its sides.
- Page 34 The group followed the conveyor belt into another room where they heard a buzzing sound. When Ty and Karlie inspected Randy, they couldn’t find anything It was too late. Remus was covered in colorful wrong with him. candy sprinkles. “He seems perfectly fine to us,” the kids said, much to the relief of Huxley and Remus.
- Page 35 1st Edition ©2017 Thames & Kosmos, LLC, Providence, RI, USA Thames & Kosmos® is a registered trademark of Thames & Kosmos, LLC. This work, including all its parts, is copyright protected. Any use outside the specific limits of the copyright law without the consent of the publisher is prohibited and punishable by law.