Boat Builders (film)

Plot

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy study a blueprint from the Ready-Cut Folding Boat Company. The instructions boast that assembly requires only putting the pieces together and that even a child can manage it. After examining the plans, they decide to call their vessel the Queen Minnie. The three open a box that contains the boat’s keel.

Mickey urges them to pull a rope to unfold it, but as they try to move aside, the keel traps them, and they echo the phrases from the blueprint. Mickey places a rectangular box holding the mast into a matching slot. He opens the box and stands on the mast to raise it, ignoring the blueprint’s warning not to do so. The mast stretches high into the sky with Mickey riding it.

While Mickey and Donald set up the deckhouse, Goofy hammers boards at the bow. One board springs out and smacks him in the back of the head. Goofy glares and hammers it back, only for another board to pop out and hit him. He hammers that one back, but as he reaches for more nails, a board knocks him off the dock.

He lands rear-end-first on a barrel of nails. After retrieving his hat, Goofy reads the word on the barrel, realizes it holds nails, yelps, and leaps high, grabbing onto the boat’s stem. Donald sits on a board suspended from the stern, painting the rudder red. Mickey attaches the ship’s wheel to the helm and turns it, which rotates the rudder.

Confused, Donald grabs the rudder to keep it still while painting, making it hard for Mickey to turn the wheel. The seat wraps around the rudder, and it hits Donald like a paddle ball toy. The wheel spins out of control, and the rudder follows, tangling Donald’s seat. Donald’s paintbrush strikes him in the beak, leaving him with the look of a mustache.