July 31^st marked the first, certainly not the last, entry for the CDI family in the Butler Basin Annual Cardboard Boat Race.  This was the 7^th year for the event.

Three CDI employees and a CB&S Branch Manager comprised the team that designed, built, and paddled a boat to complete the course in 1 minute, 21 seconds, placing third in the overall competition.

The boat was constructed out of cardboard supplied by local carpet distributors and the GE refrigerator plant. Twenty-three rolls of duct tape, equaling 1,265 yards (a little over 12.5 football fields), as well as paint and other waterproofing techniques were used to keep the cardboard afloat. These methods proved capable enough to hold the weight of 12 people on the deck of the “Master Craft” for over an hour. This amount of speed created by the floating cardboard vessel did however create “unlawful wake” in the marina, but was a non-issue in the timed results and the judge’s outcome.