What’s it like to be at the helm of a Red Bull Dinghy Derby boat or up front swinging through creeks and rivers barely wider than the boat itself at over 90km/h? The 180 competitors from this year’s derby know, check it out from their perspective.
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All over the world, the humble little dinghy boat is the safe and simple introduction to boating for millions of people. Not in the town of Renmark, on the banks of South Australia’s Murray River, however. There, in the otherwise sleepy town of just 8,000 souls, they like to strap souped-up outboard engines to their little dinghies and then race them at speeds of up to 80kph in a race that since 1981 has grown a deserved reputation as one of the fastest and wildest events on water, the Riverland Dinghy Derby.
“I was mostly the mobile jetski with camera but i hit the double up wake now and then. Crash happened when the ski before me lost its cover and started sinking, boat turned around to help and forgot to look for oncoming traffic. Im ok but the top hull of the TS is trashed.”