The annual cardboard boat race in Salem, Massachusetts made a real splash.

Come watch homemade cardboard boats float down Tinker's Creek at 2 p.m. Saturday. Better yet, build your own boat and join in the fun. It's free.

About the boat race The objective of the boat race is to design and build a “river worthy” vessel using cardboard, duct tape, and glue that will successfully carry two passengers.

FOUNTAIN SPRINGS – The second Dutch Kitchen Kup Regatta was held at North Schuylkill High School on Dec. 19, showing the talents of students to design and construct a cardboard boat to race i… ...

Moving beyond the class of the boat, the rules regarding the build are very strict. For one, the entire hull, superstructure and seating within the boat must be made entirely of corrugated cardboard.

Cardboard boat regattas were the brainchild of Richard Archer, a professor at Southern Illinois University, who conducted the first such regatta as a final examination for one of his classes in 1974.

It's one way to find out if your ideas hold water: Design a boat, build it out of cardboard and duct tape, then hop in and see if it sinks. That's what happens each year at the Mike Cauley ...