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Paddlers Race Cardboard Boats in Maplewood

Kids (including lifeguards) raced cardboard boats heavily covered in duct tape.

Saturday afternoon at the sailors from around the area arrived with a variety of cardboard boats.

They were named Push Me Pullya, Jaws, The Flame, Popular Penguin and Cheese and Quackers.

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They were judged for speed, for the most spectacular sinking (the lifeguards won that one) and a final award was given to the "People's Choice."

Popular Penguin, powered by three brothers from Richmond Heights, covered the up and back course the fastest, for the second year in a row.

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Cheese and Quackers came in second. Sarah and Katie (who loves to build things and wants to work for NASA someday) Eisenman, from Ladue paddled that craft.

Timothy Schumaker, in the ML Cruiser, a boat so big lifeguard Kate Skredenske had to jump in to help, won the Peoples Choice award.

Patch blogger Mark Cockson wrote about the event too:


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