DS Smith sets a new world record at Germany’s Blue Ribbon of the Weser by sailing a corrugated cardboard boat.

Every fall, eighth-graders at Abington Friends School gather around sheets of cardboard, rolls of duct tape, and big ideas. The annual “Roogatta” — a portmanteau that combines “kangaroo” (AFS’s mascot ...

DICKINSON — On Tuesday morning at West River Community Center, Dickinson Middle School seventh graders gathered to test the cardboard boats they had been building. In teams of two, each group set off ...

NORTHPORT — Students at Northport High School tested their engineering and teamwork skills this week during the school’s annual cardboard boat race on the bay. The tradition challenges groups of ...

Northport Public School students are pictured designing and building their cardboard boats. On Oct. 3, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., student teams will launch their boats in Northport bay to see who ...

A. B. Sheet with other boats in the background. From October 8–12, Cincinnati’s riverbanks will host nine riverboats: Cincinnati’s River Queen and Belle of Cincinnati, New Orleans’s Steamboat NATCHEZ, ...

Sep. 24—JAMESTOWN — A Jamestown man plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald's sinking in November with a mini documentary on his YouTube channel using his cardboard ...

Do you ever get that old, sinking feeling? Several contestants in the annual Great Cardboard Boat Race at Teague Park sure did Saturday. The event, which is a Greater Longview United Way fundraiser, ...

Salem Maritime park rangers in cardboard flat hats sink their cardboard boat in Salem Harbor during the 2025 Great Salem Maritime Cardboard Boat Regatta CREDIT: NPS photo/Charles Gould. Get the ...

It's pretty sturdy. It's *** complex question. How do you make *** boat float when it's built out of cardboard and duct tape? It took us about 2 months. There's *** lot of options. Duct tape's kind of ...