Cardboard Boat Media Event Race 2006

Article By Shorty


7am on Friday morning, we got setup at the Tempe Town Lake marina for the media event.

I set up ship shape standing upright against a light post, and left Ice Burgers on the trailer. Kathleen came over first chuckling...

Ashley was in the winning boat last year, this year they made a catamaran.

This is Stacy's boat, completely amazed at the great job she did, this was the first boat she has ever built.

And then Stacy helped build one for her neighbor who has a Daisy troop.

Sandy's troop made the Wonka Boat, they went on to win the Team Spirit trophy.

ITT entered their speed boat again, but I didn't see it actually work on the water this year either. They had more problems with their drive system.

They ran the media race - last year we had all sorts of TV coverage, but this year was a big news day so we didn't get any camera crews.

Mayor of Tempe posing with Jim Lemmon (the event organizer), and the kids from Pappa's school (the charity the event supports).

Packed up and heading over to the storage area at Tempe Beach Park.

This is what the storage area looks like, the camper on the left is the guard that stays there overnight. Everyone can drive right up to the storage area, some used u-haul trucks.

We spotted another pair of girl scout boats in the storage area.