A Cardboard Yacht Race - cheaper than Disneyland!

9:22 PM Sun 4 Jul 2010 GMT

'.' Greg Garrison

On the west coast of the USA they have always been up to some pretty amazing feats, so when they declared a Lake Sacajawea cardboard boat regatta in Washington State, more than 50 crews entered, and a large crowd gathered to watch the spectacle. You might have guessed that the day was sponsored by a Fibre Paper and Packaging company, but they weren't all seaworthy. When Shaun Knudsen and Abe Ott launched their two-person, brown-and-yellow, banana slug-themed boat, Slug O'War, into Lake Sacajawea it promptly capsized, sending Knudsen and Ott into the water. After another failed ...

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