Cardboard regattas: Racing novelty boats that shouldn't float

Gerald · 07-22-10, 02:44 PM

(CNN) -- For 10 years passionate sailing enthusiast Thomas Lemon has been building boats that seem to defy all logic.His remarkable award-winning creations are hand crafted with painstaking precision and love, except for one thing.

They are built entirely out of cardboard,

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/am...ex.html?hpt=C2

Betonov · 07-22-10, 03:20 PM

If you would impregnate cardboard with epoxy or poliester resin it wouldnt get wet... if the cardboard would survive the impregnation

And I wish our company would make cardboard boats, looooot less coming home chemicaly high
looks like fun, especially the titanic award part

krashkart · 07-22-10, 03:26 PM

They hold a similar regatta in Rexburg or... uh, one of the R towns. The boats must be made from cardboard milk cartons, though.

TLAM Strike · 07-22-10, 09:55 PM

Here was one from another race:

Somehow I imagined the live action Aqua-shuttle would be cooler looking...

August · 07-22-10, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Here was one from another race:

Somehow I imagined the live action Aqua-shuttle would be cooler looking...

Now there's a picture that will someday be used to shame someone...

Sledgehammer427 · 07-22-10, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by August

Now there's a picture that will someday be used to shame someone...

you read my mind August

TLAM Strike · 07-22-10, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by August

Now there's a picture that will someday be used to shame someone...

No worries going by the uniforms only two will survive to feel the shame...

Jimbuna · 07-23-10, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

No worries going by the uniforms only two will survive to feel the shame...

Oh nos...the dreaded red!!

07-22-10, 02:44 PM	#1
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Cardboard regattas: Racing novelty boats that shouldn't float (CNN) -- For 10 years passionate sailing enthusiast Thomas Lemon has been building boats that seem to defy all logic.His remarkable award-winning creations are hand crafted with painstaking precision and love, except for one thing. They are built entirely out of cardboard, http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/am...ex.html?hpt=C2 __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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TLAM Strike Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rochester, New York Posts: 8,633 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 6	Here was one from another race: Somehow I imagined the live action Aqua-shuttle would be cooler looking... __________________

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Betonov Navy Seal Join Date: May 2009 Location: Slovenia Posts: 8,647 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	If you would impregnate cardboard with epoxy or poliester resin it wouldnt get wet... if the cardboard would survive the impregnation And I wish our company would make cardboard boats, looooot less coming home chemicaly high looks like fun, especially the titanic award part

07-22-10, 03:26 PM	#3
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	They hold a similar regatta in Rexburg or... uh, one of the R towns. The boats must be made from cardboard milk cartons, though.