Build-a-Boat

It’s sink or swim time – will your team come out high and dry, or end up all wet? In this wildly wacky event, participants divide into small project teams. Teams are charged with the challenge of building a useable raft from a limited supply of resources (barrels, boards, and rope.) One key factor – all members of your crew need to coordinate their efforts to brainstorm, create and build the raft.

Once afloat, each vessel must be capable of transporting several team members, along with a team flag. Everyone will navigate through an obstacle course, out to a dock or buoy, then (hopefully) all the way back to shore. Here’s your chance to be Huckleberry Finn, except that in our version everyone wears a lifejacket!

We’ve also had tremendous success augmenting this program with an orienteering exercise in which teams must locate the materials to build their raft. Think of it as the corporate scavenger hunt variation. Either way, our boat building extravaganza is a prime example of nurturing team spirit using levity and laughter in a safe but unfamiliar context.