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21 August, 2023

Wooden boat raid success

SEVERAL colourful, wild and wacky watercrafts sailed out across Tinaroo on Saturday for the annual Cairns Wooden Boat Association’s Great Tinaroo Raid.


Brendon O’Rourke receiving the award for Best Boat presented by Wooden Boat Association of Cairns Vice President Chris O’Keefe. (PHOTO: Glen Chisholm)
Brendon O’Rourke receiving the award for Best Boat presented by Wooden Boat Association of Cairns Vice President Chris O’Keefe. (PHOTO: Glen Chisholm)

This year, Sheila Sparks received the Dr Tom Wright Memorial Trophy after winning the Seagull Outboard Race.

Brendon O’Rourke won Best Boat with his beautifully refurbished Hartley Flareline motor cruiser whilst Chris O’Keefe won the Peculiar Propulsion Race after his victory in his very peculiar pedal-powered paddle-wheeler.

The day was deemed a success by all those who attended.

Sheila Sparks receiving the Dr Tom Wright Memorial Trophy from Wooden Boat Association of Cairns Vice President Chris O’Keefe for winning the Seagull Outboard Race. (PHOTO: Glen Chisholm)
President of Sailability Cairns, Jeff Crofts, and Wooden Boat Association of Cairns Vice President, Chris O’Keefe, celebrating the donation of Om Toch to Sailability Cairns.
Dermot Smyth, Wooden Boat Association of Cairns Secretary, presenting the Peculiar Propulsion Race trophy to Chris O’Keefe after victory in his very peculiar pedal-powered paddle-wheeler. (PHOTO: Glen Chisholm)
Brendon O’Rourke with his beautifully refurbished Hartley Flareline motor cruiser, which one the Best Boat award at the 2023 Great Tinaroo Raid. (PHOTO: Dermot Smyth)
Sheila Sparks winning the Seagull Outboard race at the Great Tinaroo Raid. (PHOTO: Dermot Smyth)
Sheila Sparks coming first, followed by Peter Higgins in second place, in the Seagull Outboard Race at the Great Tinaroo Raid.
Jeff Crofts, President of Sailability Cairns, skippering Om Toch for the first time after receiving the boat from the Wooden Boat Association of Cairns.
Members of Sailability Cairns inspect their new sailing vessel, Om Toch, donated by the Wooden Boat Association of Cairns. (PHOTO: Sheila Sparks)
Chris O’Keefe with his winning entry in the Peculiar Propulsion Race.
Part of the fleet of wooden boats at the Great Tinaroo Raid. (PHOTO: Dermot Smyth)
Chris O’Keefe leading the Peculiar Propulsion Race in his pedal-powered paddle-wheeler, followed by Dermot Smyth in his twin fishtail-powered craft.
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