At KTVB7 on September 13, 2024 I saw an Idaho Today article titled Cardboard kayak races? The Indian Creek Festival begins tonight! It has a five-minute video showing the creek and racers enjoying paddling furiously. There is another two-minute video from Idaho News 6 titled Cardboard kayak races showcase the evolution of the Indian Creek Festival in Caldwell.
A Wikipedia page on Cardboard boat race says the first was held back in 1974, and that there even is a Cardboard Boat Museum in New Richmond, Ohio.
I was not familiar with cardboard boat races, but knew about concrete canoes raced by university civil engineering students. The Wikipedia page for them says concrete canoes typically are more sophisticated than cardboard kayaks.
An image adapted from Wikimedia Commons shows a 2012 cardboard boat regatta on Lake Accotink, Virginia.
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