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Kids' Cardboard Boat Race is a Chappaquiddick Classic

The Vineyard's shortest, funniest regatta took place Sunday. Watch our video for the start and finish, and check out a photo gallery of kids' homemade cardboard boats.

A fleet of boxy, handmade vessels took to the water Sunday afternoon in the seventh annual Cardboard Boat Regatta for kids at the Chappaquiddick Beach Club.

Take a look at our gallery of photographs to see the variety of cardboard boats created by kids (sometimes with help from parents), watch the video to see the start and finish and click here to read about last year's regatta.

Sunday morning, heavy morning rain and occasional thunder moved through the area, leaving calm water and windless air by the time the starting horn went off a few minutes after noon.

Starting from the Chappy club's beach, the young skippers and crews paddled their way to the swimming float and back to the shore, though many of their boats collapsed in the process.

Last year's second-place winners, Una Darrell and Lucy Moore, were victorious Sunday in their 2013 craft "Flame Thrower."

But unlike many Martha's Vineyard yachting contests, this one was much more about having fun than competing to win. 

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