Shoutout to everyone in New Braunfels keeping Texas weird. This might be the most fun I’ve seen on a river since tubing season opened.

It’s called Thru the Chute, and it might be the funniest, most unhinged event in Texas. Just a bunch of grown adults building boats out of cardboard and duct tape, dressing up in wild costumes, and launching themselves down a concrete chute on the Comal River in New Braunfels.

I had no idea this existed but now that I do and I’m obsessed and after seeing these  boats, you will be too.

10 Boats That Deserve an Award… or a Lifeguard

Monday Night Raw: River Edition
These wrestlers walked into the ring… and floated out like legends. Cardboard never stood a chance.

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Purple Pimpin’ H-Town Floatmobile
This cardboard Cadillac had a full crew, a steering wheel, and Slim Thug.

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Clown Car Chaos
Not sure what’s scarier, the fact this clown built a boat out of cardboard or that it actually floated longer than expected.

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The Blue Man Boat Group
Drums? Check. Paint? Check. Performance art on a sinking stage? You bet.

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Redneck Yacht Club 🚤🍻
Lawn chairs for seats, cooler in the back, and duct tape doing 100% of the engineering, this boat didn’t float long, but it floated proud.

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The Floatin’ Republic of Texas
This boat yee’d its last haw down the chute with pride.

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U.S.S. Bare Minimum
From “we tried our best” to “we came to conquer,” this race really has range.

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Canals of Venice
If Venice had water damage and bad balance...

 

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Would your crew survive the Comal Cardboard Gauntlet?


 

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