Quote Originally Posted by mklotz View Post
Sounds like some drunken bar bet gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Yes, it does Marv. Then again that is how we got "King of the Mountain" race in Pomona Qld: a bored drinker went out for a run up Mount Cooroora and the bar bets & all the rest is history.

Don't think we will see a race across the Atlantic in metre long vessels soon though.

Cheers