My son convinced me to enter a cardboard boat race…

[unclebilly]

Got any ideas?

We slide down a hill and into a pond of slush… bring on the shrinkage.

https://www.skicastle.ca/event/cardboardcanoerace/

[fanaudical]

Jamaican bobsled?

Scale model Titanic?

Canadian goose?

[pwd72s]

Are milk cartons cardboard?

[unclebilly]

I was thinking sonotubes and make a raft…

[stevej37]

[Fast Freddy 944]

TMI...Just get a fridge box, cut ou the top, step into it, and have your ankle biters push you down the hill...tee-hee, lots-o-fun.

[unclebilly]

Well today is the big day…

We started with sonotubes.



We added a bulkhead in the middle of each so they wouldn’t get crushed.



We fit ends to each.



We taped the end caps in to seal them up well.



We installed a platform as a top.

[Tervuren]

They say for every rule there is a story...

Participants must not be taped / tied to their boat for safety reasons

[pwd72s]

Wet Suits allowed?

[Rusty Heap]

needs more tape holding the deck on.......

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

needs more tape holding the deck on.......

Yeah, going to be some G force when you hit thee slush...maybe add grab bars?

[mjohnson]

Need more deets on the costumes. Hopefully tutus at least - it was pretty strong last weekend at Gd Targhee, the lifities were nabbing bras from the (duh) bra tree and going topless-ish.

Spring skiing is the best skiing. Why anyone would go out and pay money before xmas mystifies me - and with the forest leases so many places, in CO at least, close with the most snow of the year in early April...

[flatbutt]

Oh Billy this absolutely positively must be fully documented puhleeeze!

[unclebilly]

At the hill we added a few more things. We added a cardboard windshield and pirate flag. We also put a piece of cardboard that nearly covered the bottom and taped it all up. This is key to lower friction on the slushy snow. Unfortunately the flap on the bottom was maybe a foot narrower than the sonotubes.

We went for it and it would have been awesome if we didn’t spin and the flap acted like a brake as it collected snow.

It did float fine and the kids got soaked…

[unclebilly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0fTx6AoRk

[cstreit]

We must see ALL of this!

[billybek]

Next time you need a skeg or a rudder to keep you straight!

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by billybek

Next time you need a skeg or a rudder to keep you straight!

Or make it round like a snow tube.

[bkreigsr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9OH3PuwGs

These are a ton of fun, I happened to catch one during a DE, three-day weekend

[bkreigsr]