All sides of the Northern Territory's famously divided political spectrum have come together for an unforeseen infrastructure project — a floating two-seat boat made from unwanted election posters.

Last month's Labor landslide left the Country Liberal Party (CLP) in tatters and Darwin's streets covered in unwanted campaign posters.

So 105.7 ABC Darwin producer and passionate sailor Conor Byrne decided to take up a challenge (set by himself) and build a boat made from the faces of Territory politics.

"It really started when I saw the CLP's giant Just Vote 1 corflute posters," he said.

"I said to myself, 'That looks a lot like a sheet of plywood'. I had been investigating building a small sailing boat at the time.

"Then the idea just got out of control."

Within days Byrne and the rest of the station's Breakfast team were talking to a teenage engineer in New Zealand who had made a corflute boat with a working mast.

Ben White in New Zealand built this boat from corflutes. ( Supplied: Ben White )

On-air callouts also saw the CLP's outgoing party president donate one of the desirable Just Vote 1 signs, and smaller campaign posters were donated from various political offices.

"We asked for the corflutes of candidates who didn't win their seats as we thought they no longer had anything more to lose," Byrne said.

All sides of politics 'get together in one boat'

The raft of donated political posters eventually grew to include outgoing chief minister Adam Giles, who lost his seat of Braitling, former Labor leader Delia Lawrie, who was unsuccessful in Karama, and other party-affiliated and independent candidates including Peter Styles, Carol Phayer, Matthew Baker and Shauna Mounsey.

Unregistered yet clear crowd favourite Scrumpy The Dog also made it into the mix.

After many hours of engineering, cutting, sweating and reflecting on the state of Territory politics, on Friday morning Byrne took his masterpiece to Darwin's Lake Alexander for its launch.

Crowds cheered at sunrise as the boat indeed floated although there were leakages.

"I believed that the campaigners' election promises were watertight," Byrne said.

"I was grossly mistaken.

"As for the independents, CLP and Labor getting together in one boat? I think this is the last and only time this will happen in the Northern Territory."

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105.7 ABC Darwin audience members suggested more than 50 names for the boat, with frontrunners including The Mandate, Ship Of Fools, The Floater, House Of Cards, The Conopoli, and Corky McCoreFlute.

In homage to the decimated CLP, which was only left with two elected members after the election, Byrne's two-seat creation was formally named SS Opposition.

The ABC in Canberra is now taking up a challenge from the Darwin team, with an ACT election set for October 15.