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post Jul 9 2010, 02:35 PM
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People can also come out meet the WIMS road crew, including Rock N Roll Hall of Famer, John Records Landecker.

http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2010/0...c9451489304.txt

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Cardboard boat race is Saturday

Published: Friday, July 9, 2010 4:13 AM CDT
MICHIGAN CITY — The Cardboard Boat Dash returns at noon Saturday, July 10, at the launch ramp next to the bathhouse in Washington Park.

For those who have not built a boat but would like to compete, 21 instant boat kits will be available starting at 11 a.m. race day, event chairman Ed Beutner said.

An instant boat kit can be used to build a cardboard boat at the race site. A kit is $15 and includes cardboard, duct tape, wire ties, a utility knife, a piece of plastic and directions.

All contestants will need to bring are their own life jackets and paddles.

Instant boat contestants can work on their instant boats from 11 a.m. until the finish of the Cardboard Boat Dash.

This allows for about two hours to complete their craft, Beutner said.

The instant boat race should start at about 1 to 1:30 p.m. depending on the turnout for the regular Cardboard Boat Dash.

This is a free event sponsored by the Michigan City Port Authority, Michigan City Summer Festival, The Parks Department, WIMS Radio AM 1420, The La Porte County Convention and Visitors Bureau and Captain Ed’s.

Spectators can line the north shore of the Washington Park Marina.

Beach chairs or blankets would be a great idea, Beutner said.

For more information contact Captain Ed’s at 219-872-6294
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post Jul 10 2010, 03:55 PM
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This was a GREAT event. I had a blast. Here are the pics I took.

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post Jul 11 2010, 12:40 AM
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I found an old company video of the 1992 Michigan City cardboard boat race.

It's too bad the S.S. ANCO WipeAway had been decommissioned years ago. It would have blown yesterday's competition out of the water.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7854546/20812978
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post Jul 11 2010, 07:36 AM
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http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2010/0...8f522622647.txt

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Cardboard Boat Dash makes triumphant return

Scott Allen/For The News-Dispatch Boat No. 2 was the winner of the Dream Team award.
By Deborah Sederberg
Staff Writer
Published: Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:12 AM CDT
MICHIGAN CITY — It wasn’t exactly a cardboard boat. In fact, “Dr. Nubs,” the creation of the DeBone family, was ridden into the marina with Robert DeBone in the saddle. But it wasn’t a horse, it was an alligator.

Following the rules of the Cardboard Boat Dash, a Summer Festival event, Dr. Nubs was constructed of cardboard, down to his sharp and scary-looking cardboard teeth.

For 10 years, the cardboard boat event was a race in Trail Creek.

Then the race disappeared for 10 years. This year, Captain Ed Beutner, who had been in charge of it all those years ago, resurrected it.

“Last year,” Beutner said, I was taking a walk down to the pier and as I passed the marina and the boat launch, I realized this would be a perfect place for the race.”

Indeed, the boat launch was perfect for getting the boats into the water and the area afforded enough room for racers to line up with their crews prior to launching.

Dressed in full captain regalia, complete with jacket and tie, all printed on a white T-shirt, Beutner was busy distributing emergency boat kits for those who had no boats.

Kyle Sliwa, a 10th-grade student from Michigan City High School, built a cardboard homage to Captain Ed’s Candy Island, complete with roof. Beutner’s daughter Amanda painted the craft.

“The secret to success is a good paint job,” Beutner said. To keep the cardboard from sinking, it must be sealed with paint.

The bright gold NetNitco Party Barge certainly did not sink. The four-poster barge with canopy held six paddling NetNitco employees as it made its way through the marina water.

NetNitco built a total of nine boats for the event.

John Beutner, who has won several science fair awards, including one in which he built a system for ships to save fuel by creating a cushion of bubbles on which the boat would sail, promised no bubbles for his cardboard entry, which resembled an ordinary row boat — if ordinary row boats were built of cardboard.

And just in case anyone should need a floating lawyer, the Beckman and Boersma law office entered a sedate and business-like black and white cardboard number.
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post Jul 14 2010, 12:03 PM
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http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2010/0...dc917508720.txt

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Many awards presented to cardboard boat crews

Deborah Sederberg/The News-Dispatch The Party Barge, by NetNitco.
By Deborah Sederberg
Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:13 AM CDT
MICHIGAN CITY — Some of the boats in the Cardboard Boat Dash were designed to sink. Ed Beutner, chief organizer of the event, was not disappointed. Although all boats made it through the first round of the event Saturday at the Washington Park Marina, by the second and third rounds, 24 of the 30 boats entered sank.

All three boats built under the Captain Ed Beutner Candy Island flag sank.

“The builders didn’t have a lot of parental advice,” he said, speaking of his son and his daughter and one of their friends. “They didn’t want it. They wanted to sink.”

Who would want to miss a chance at the Master of Disaster trophy, an award won by Mike DeBone for The Alligator?

The award is given for the most spectacular sinking of an entry. Beutner liked the Alligator because, he said, DeBone never stopped paddling although the green reptile replica continued to sink. But in a valiant effort, DeBone brought it to shore.

In the Cracker Jack class, a speed contest for youngsters under age 13 and their parents, first place went to Gen II, with the Henrick Crew; second to NITCO, with the Alec Babiac crew; and third to MNM Laser, with the Haughtingtons and the Dohners.

In the other speed contest, the Salty Dogs, an adult event, first place went to The Streak with Geoff Curtis and Glen Curtis, father (Glen) and son (Geoff). Geoff traveled from California for the event and Glen from Detroit. The men had participated in the race several times during its first incarnation. Second place went to NetNITCO with Neal Ketchum; and third to NetNitco’s The Party Barge. The Coolest Boat Award, representing the favorite of the judges, went to the Bogarts and their 59 Pink Cadillac.

The Viking Ship with David Dirks, Todd Stanley, Shawn Menear and Jeff Kizer, took the Dream Team award, given to the team with the best spirit, costumes, attitude and other qualities of a dream team.

The Corrugation Ovation Award for the best use of cardboard went to NetNITCO’s Party Barge, a monstrosity of cardboard complete with canopy that carried six people out to “sea.” Painted bright gold and decorated in a tropical theme, the Party Barge was hard to miss.

Beutner said he admires the spirit Rhys Mussman of NetNITCO brought to the event. “NetNITCO sponsored nine boats,” he said. “They used the race as a company outing. They reserved a park shelter for a company picnic after the race.”

According to Beutner, Mussman told him “that having the employees work together on the project and participate in the event produced great team work and team spirit in the workplace and was much more effective and lower cost than a weekend motivational seminar.”
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post Jul 16 2012, 09:30 AM
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Here is the 2012 edition of the cardboard boat races:

http://thenewsdispatch.com/articles/2012/0...8c131657957.txt
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Boat races prove to be a paper-product blast

By Deborah Sederberg
Staff Writer

Published: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:06 PM CDT

MICHIGAN CITY — The Michigan City Police Department Dive Team stood by, along with the Michigan City Fire Department.

Although several boats – in fact most boats moving about the harbor during the annual race Saturday – took on water and sunk, none of the captains or crew members needed emergency aid.

“It is not very likely that anyone will need us,” MCPD Cpl. Steve Alt said of the dive team, but said he was glad to stand by.

Like the rest of the audience, Alt enjoyed watching the escapades of amateur boaters and boat builders.

One craft, dubbed “The Angry Banana,” looked angry indeed, compolete with exposed teeth (yes, banana teeth).

Several of the nearly 30 boats came with pirate themes.

One of those – the “Terdhull” – was built by men with full-time jobs, not by sixth or seventh-grade boys as the name might suggest.

Matt Konopasek, Westville, Frank Vulpitta, Hanna and Josh Smith, Wanatah, are pals who work together at Pratt Industries, Valparaiso.

Working together on their boat, they put in about 60 hours of their own time.

Although they did not win the race (official results will be published in The News-Dispatch at a later date), Team Terdhull did win the award for the most magnificent sinking. Not one to abandon ship, Captain Matt Konopasek paddled the hulk back to port because it was delictely lifted by a front-end loader and deposited unceremoniously into a trash bin.

The Terdhull also won the “Best Ship” award because although she sunk, judges liked the way she looked.

Another favorite, at least with audience members, was the royal blue race car (number 74) navigated through the harbor by young Noah Hanke, who took second place in the Crackerjack category. Although there was no official word on the matter from the judges, a man named Noah might be expected to know something about boat construction. Young Noah’s boat stayed afloat when lesser boats were sunk into the drink.

No one was injured and most people went down laughing with their sinking ships.

Tina Beutner, wife of Ed Beutner, who has been running the Cardboard races forever, said the races are intended to be fun. “People get creative and they have a great time,” she said.

As her husband advises every year, the boats with the best paint jobs were most likely to float.


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post Jul 16 2012, 06:26 PM
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Looks like a fun time in MC!
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post Jul 17 2012, 06:37 AM
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QUOTE(Tim @ Jul 16 2012, 07:26 PM) *

Looks like a fun time in MC!


I went the year they brought it back. It really is a great time. I will say Captain Ed is one of the truly good people in Michigan City right now. The guy gives a lot of himself and his family. Pretty much if you see an event going on locally, he is going to be a part of it.
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