Another beautiful day in Cairns. Wednesday is WAGS day - Wednesday Afternoon Gentleman's Sail. Anyone with a boat and the time takes anyone who pays the fee ($5 for yacht club members, $15 for non) for a "friendly" race up and down the Cairns inlet. The price includes a sausage sizzle and beer or wine afterwards. You can actually be part of the crew or just sit and watch the scenery (ballast). I was ballast (as were 6 others) most of the time but next time I'm going to be part of the crew, it's more fun. I was on the most luxurious boat, Chalkies Chariot, a 42 foot Bavaria skippered by Rob aka Chalkie. The friendly race was soon down to 2 boats neck and neck vying for first place - tweaking and fine tuning the sails every 30 seconds. Was great fun zipping up and down the inlet, heeled way over except when I was caught lying down on deck, we tacked and I could easily have rolled right off the boat but the thought of crocs in the water was a great incentive to hang on for dear life until we straightened out - a very very long 20 minutes later. We won the race, just barely, our skipper really wanted first prize - a bottle of rum. I'll try to get a photo of the actual boat, found this one on the internet.
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