It’s an Irn-Bru canoe!

Water good idea ... Tam Walker in his canoe

NGENIOUS Tam Walker shows he has a thirst for adventure - by paddling in a canoe made of Irn-Bru bottles.

The marine engineer constructed his one-man boat entirely out of two-litre fizzy drinks containers.
And the 55-year-old, of Airdrie, Lanarkshire, plans to paddle the wacky craft from coast to coast.

He said: "I got the idea after seeing all these old bottles bobbing around in the canal.

Bottle boat ... Tam shows off his creation

"I thought to myself 'they never seem to sink' and would make a good boat structure.
"So I started collecting old bottles and soon discovered the two-litre ones were the best to fit together."
Tam named his canoe the BB - Bottle Boat - Plastic Fantastic. Although the dad-of-three admits it wasn't all plain sailing.
He said: "On its first sea trial it sprung a couple of leaks. That was mainly because it was too narrow and it stretched when I sat in it. A bit more glue and gaffer tape soon solved that."

Making a splash ... Tam takes canoe for a paddle

He said of his coast to coast plan: "I'm going to take it from the west to east coast along the Forth And Clyde and Union canals for charity."