Greendale High School just wrapped up their annual boat regatta race. The junior class had a boat load of fun as they spent many class periods, rolls of tape, and cardboard on their project to wrap up the semester before exams.
There were 56 teams that competed in this competition and only one had the best boat. The name of the winners was PoSINEdon’s Wave Riders. They qualified with a time of 45.55 seconds to lock themselves into the final four groups.
In the championship race they took it by storm with a time of 44.7 seconds, gapping the next opponent by almost ten seconds. If you ask any person who has competed in this competition they will always say more tape and more cardboard is how you succeed.
“What made us so successful was the many layers of cardboard we put on the boat and a plan for how we would row our boat as fast as we could.” junior boat regatta winner Aubrey Cook said.
The winning times of last year and this are very comparable. It is a consistent theme of the final four teams being in the 40 to 45 second range. Another repeated theme is that in the final race with the four fastest teams there will not be four teams to finish the race.
Last year there was only one boat that made it out alive with the same thing happening this year with team PoSINEdon’s Wave Riders being the only team to make it out dry.
“Times last year and this year were very similar. The top four times from the first round were all under 46 seconds. The winning times from the final race last year and this year were both 45 seconds,” Science teacher Carl Bauhs said.
As we talk about the winners and the things that went well, we also have to focus on the teams that failed and that they figured out the hard way of what they needed to do differently. The most frustrating way that teams failed was when they got in the boat and it immediately went under water.
“My group definitely could have done a lot differently like tape more, have a different shaped boat, and have a rhythm for rowing,” Junior Jack Perleberg said
