Bristol harbour festival: A cardboard banana split boat split in the harbour!
The mission of the harbour festival is to celebrate, with all the communities of Bristol, the heart and soul of the city in the unique setting of its harbour.
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00:00Cardboard boat race is always an absolute highlight every year, you know it's difficult to know how
00:05many people take part but this year for me the highlight was the banana, no what was it called,
00:11I've forgotten it now, the banana algalum split and it was incredible because literally they
00:16were dressed up as ice creams and they sunk. I've just been part of a team that took part in the
00:21cardboard boat race. The cardboard boat race has been running for quite a long time I assume
00:26and the deal is you have to make a boat out fully out of cardboard, you can paint it and you can
00:30varnish it and you can use glue and tape but no regular boat building materials and what you have
00:36to do is launch the boat, get in the boat, paddle around the buoy and make it back to the other
00:41lot. The winner this year, Darius, he's taken part, it's a bit of a family affair, his dad was in the
00:48wheel and his dad really had struggled, he couldn't get the boat launched and then Darius literally
00:54had a little boat and he was rowing along and he went up and around the buoy, came back to the
00:59pontoon and was a clear winner this year and beat his father for the first time. He'd been taking
01:05part in the cardboard boat race for the last 10 years since he was eight years old with his
01:09grandmother who used to take part in it as well so nice to see it being kept in the family and
01:14Darius was the winner against his dad, the wheel, he didn't even get off the pontoon but sank in style.
01:20We made a quite ridiculous boat and we initially planned to have six people in it, it became
01:26apparent immediately that only four people were going to fit in the boat and it came apart inside
01:32about 30 seconds. You know it is part of Bristol, it's been running for so long, it's free and it is
01:38for all the family. Last year was actually the most diverse festival that they've ever had and
01:44they have made, we've got some wonderful new curators and organisers, swan events and proud
01:49events and you know in combination and collaboration with Bristol City Council
01:53have ensured to make sure this is representing those voices that sometimes don't get represented.