PHOTOS, VIDEO: Cardboard Boats Float — or Not — in Port Harbor
The Port Washington Maritime Heritage Festival involved two races this year: a build-ahead and build-it-that-day competition. Find out the winners and flip through these photos to see who sinks and who floats.
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The build-ahead cardboard boat race took place Saturday afternoon, with nine boats: eight in the multi-adult category, and one multi-youth boat.
Here are the awards for that race:
- Fastest adult winner: Red Fusion II, time 1:57.4
- Fastest youth winner: Shark Bait, time 2:11.5
- Engineering award: Red Fusion, Capt. Glenn Walters
- Vogue Award: Solo, Capt. Jean Gruen
- Team Spirit: Splittoon, Capt. Maggie Brady
- Titanic Award: Port Washington Yacht Club, Capt. Dennis Walters
On Sunday, there were four groups of people that participated in the build-it-that-day race. Each team was given all the supplies to build the boat, and had from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. to construct it, with the race at 2 p.m.
Here are the awards for that race:
- Fastest boat: Sinking Feeling, Capt. James Engle, time 1:56.9
- Engineering Award: Tri Force, sponsored by Red Fusion
- Vogue Award: Team Dingy, sponsored by Schooner Pub
- Team Spirit: Gold Doubloon sponsored by Port Washington State Bank
- Titanic Award: Sinking Feeling, self-sponsored by James Engle
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Chris Pike
9:25 am on Monday, August 20, 2012
Looks like fun, didn't get off the light station to see the rest of the event!
Lyssa Beyer
12:06 pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Thanks for the upload, Mac. That is really cool!
Benjamin Lloyd
1:38 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012
We captured a time lapse of the triforce boat build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3yptexzoM
Anne
9:51 am on Thursday, August 30, 2012
Did anyone else notice that when a boat sank and the people had to swim to a ladder that the ladder was to short. They needed help getting up the ladders. This should be a wake-up call to the city and the harbor master to make the ladders longer. I would hate to see someone fall in the water during winter, unable to reach the ladders and be found with hypothermea. This problem could be prevented NOW.