Cardboard Boat Race

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by Steve Blakely 27 June 2010 Chesapeake Bay 15 photos 5063 views

Oxford, MD's, annual cardboard boat race June 26. We have sailed over in the past, but excess heat and lack of wind convinced us to arrive by land-yacht this time. Great event, wonderful town.

Oxford-Bellevue ferry, oldest operating private ferry in the nation.

The Oxford-Bellevue Ferry: "Capacity: 9 cars or 18 Mini-Coopers"!

The Tred-Avon River. Oxford has wonderful old houses, great gardens.

Kon-Tiki, before the race.

Kon-Tiki after the race: Boat dissolved at the starting line.

Betsy Ross going down at the starting line.

Cardboard corn-cob boat

Bunnies Rule!

9-person cardboard war canoe

Smith Island Crab Skiffs race before the cardboard boats do.

Richard Griffiths, 75-year-old Brit, lives aboard a 107-year-old Luger.

Rosalind, a 107-year-old Luger, Oxford Boat Yard.

Rosalind's wooden blocks, undergoing maintenance

Rosalind's masthead with new varnish

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The International IPYOA administration team.