Darwin - beer can race

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Sun 7 Jul 2013 01:01

Position 12 25.67S  130 54.05E

 

Finally arrived in Darwin and meet up with Annie, Stephen and Patrick.  Had a very expensive and rubbish lunch before going to watch the annual beer can race.  According to Paul, when the beer cans were made of steel they used to have speed trials to find the fastest beer can boat driven by an outboard motor.  The speed record was 52 knots.  However, when Australia changed to aluminium beer cans, they discovered that when the boat reached 28 knots the aluminium beer cans started to crush and the boat then sank. Obviously expensive in outboard motors so its paddle power only. 

 

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Awaiting launching.

 

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Successful floatation.

 

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The party salty grogmaster boat.

 

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This sank as soon as it was launched.

 

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Make something useful out of those cans.

 

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