On Saturday we went to the Pyrmont Farmers Market and afterwards had a walk around Cockle Bay to have a look at the boat show. There were some magnificent boats on display! We also came across a boat building competition where the competitors had to build a boat from the supplied materials (wood and glue) within 2 hours. We arrived about 1 hour into the competition and we watched until they were finished. I was absolutely amazed at the different designs that were being built, and I watched with interest one boat that seemed to be better built than the rest. Most of the competitors were ship building apprentices, but the very well built one was a bit of a show off (to show what they could do) as they took their time and finished just outside the 2 hour time limit, and they had brought along a fibreglass top. When it was built it looked like a little speed boat! They all went for lunch and came back to have a race around Cockle Bay!
Andrew and I decided to do the same. We had some lunch at Dixons and then went back to watch the race. It was pretty funny! Some had much better paddles than others (they also had to build their own paddles) and one looked more like a barge and had two inflated sheep on the deck. Obviously they did very poorly on the race and didn’t really get very far. A boat that was there for support threw them a rope to help them back to dry land, but the entire thing tipped over when it was pulled by the boat. 🙂
It was a fun Saturday.
