Mother and daughter team Kelly Wullner (left) and Taylor Gott, 16, paddle Totally Hawksome to the starting line after circling a buoy during the Freedom Festival Cardboard Boat Regatta at Manhattan ...

GLEN ELLYN, IL — The Lake Ellyn Cardboard Regatta will not be held in 2022, the Glen Ellyn Park District announced Tuesday. A new event geared toward those who are 21 and older is in the works, the ...

About 40 boats are expected to take part in the Cardboard Regatta during the 32nd annual Watkins Glen Waterfront Festival.

Typically, as it should go without saying, most boats are designed to be waterproof. On Friday, June 6, that wasn't the case for a few very sinkable local boats, as teams faced off in the 16th year of ...

OCONOMOWOC, Wis. - In Oconomowoc, teams raced homemade cardboard boats to raise money for a community cause Saturday, Sept. 16. Cardboard, tape and paint were the only materials used in the third ...

Not many of the boats were seaworthy, but they sure were entertaining! Not many of the boats were seaworthy, but they sure were entertaining! Not many of the boats were seaworthy, but they sure were ...

Cardboard boatbuilders are a calculating lot. Before crafting a vessel that floats, supports the weight of its crew and can make it across the waters of Glen Ellyn's Lake Ellyn, there is math and ...

Dressed as a merry band of pirates, Sgt. 1st Class Kyle Davis, his wife Danielle, and their family were ready for the 2021 Cardboard Regatta. They joined Soldiers, families, base employees and guests ...

"Who would have thought cardboard and duct tape could be so much fun," said Kurt Rose, board member of the Reston Historic Trust & Museum. Rose and others helped organize and produce the 2019 Lake ...

You guys did *** great job. It's *** race of 21 boats engineered by almost the best designers. This boat is made out of cardboard, duct tape, and shellac. Think about it, varnish, polyurethane. The ...