CrAzY Cardboard Boat Regatta

Last year was the first year for the Crazy Cardboard Regatta here in our fair town. My son Ian and his friends entered a boat. Her name was “”Lola”. She was sort of a barge who was trying to be a tug boat and she sank as soon as they got her into the water.

It was hilarious!

About 6 months ago I got involved on the Regatta committee with the Arts Council that I am a board member into it. My team was enthusiastic about it and dove right in! The Arts Council of West Chester & Liberty is a non- profit organization, in our area to benefit and inspire our community through all the arts.

Since we are a non profit we have to get very creative with our awards. At one of our many meetings the team came up with a great community drive for donation for our Billy Bass fish awards. We asked the community to donate their tired singing Billy Bass fish to the Arts Council. I then gave out the fish to local artist and members to revive. We had 8 categories and exactly 8 artist hand paint beautiful one of a kind Billy Bass Awards for the showboat category.

It was a hit! Of course I had to paint one too…Meet my Incredible Mr. Limpet! I was honored for it be requested by the “People’s Choice” boat winning family. An inspirational story of a family with heartbreaking challenges, this family and team worked together to create the beautiful “SS Scooter”. A perfect choice voted by the people.