As I was walking through the Botanical Gardens yesterday, I came across the contestants of the Inaugral Yulia Felbermayr Challenge Cup. They had all designed and built these great little boats and were about to race them across the lily pond. The emphasis was definitely on the artistic side of things rather than the functional. I think only one entry managed to complete the five metre course... and that was probably just good luck. My favourite design - a duck on a raft with lots of mini hand-held fans blowing into a plastic bag sail (you can only see the sail in this snap) - ended up just going around in circles.
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I give up: who was the eponymous Yulia?
Absolutely no idea. I googled her but could only find sites about the ins and outs of the competition... could be a sponsor...or maybe an anagram??
bi-yearly arm fuel!
Sounds good to me! With a name like that it could easily be related to the Henley-on-Todd.
Just noticed the widget - taa ...
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