Six-year-old Oliver Reid stole the show at the soggy bottom cardboard boat regatta with his Back to the Future inspired boat. His mum Danielle said the plan wasn't originally to build a Back to the Future style boat. "It didn't start off being a DeLorean but it ended up looking like a DeLorean by the time we made the basic shape," she said. "Oliver loves DeLoreans so we thought we may as well turn it into a DeLorean." Oliver was so excited with how his boat performed he wanted to register it for another race. IN OTHER NEWS Launceston Mayor Albert Van Zetten and Deputy Mayor Danny Gibson also got in on the action with their boat designed by University of Tasmania engineering students. They faced off against Youngtown Rotary Club president Chris Westlake and member Jan Beams in a leaders challenge. Despite coming second Cr Van Zetten said the boat performed well. "The problem was probably us a little bit," he said. Civil engineering students Isaac Probert, Dylan Villiers and Joseph Holloway helped design a boat for the 'leaders challenge' at the soggy bottom cardboard boat regatta as part of their work experience. The challenge saw Youngtown Rotary club president Chris Westlake and Jan Beams face off against Mayor Albert Van Zetten and Deputy Mayor Danny Gibson. The students said one of the hardest parts of the build was knowing where to start. "There are photos of previous years and what not but as you can tell the event is largely run and won by young children," Mr Probert said. "Obviously there is a bit of a mass difference between young children and fully grown adults." The event was organised by a collaboration of Rotary clubs with funds raised going to Diabetes Tasmania. Soggy Bottom Event Committee chair Lee Dyson said the turn out for the event was amazing. He said they had roughly double the amount of people as last year despite the poor weather at the start of the day. Sign up to one of our many newsletters
WET: Mayor Albert Van Zetten and Deputy Danny Gibson racing in the leaders challenge at the Soggy Bottom Cardboard Boat Regatta on Sunday. Picture: Neil Richardson.
Six-year-old Oliver Reid stole the show at the soggy bottom cardboard boat regatta with his Back to the Future inspired boat.
His mum Danielle said the plan wasn't originally to build a Back to the Future style boat.
"It didn't start off being a DeLorean but it ended up looking like a DeLorean by the time we made the basic shape," she said.
"Oliver loves DeLoreans so we thought we may as well turn it into a DeLorean."
Oliver was so excited with how his boat performed he wanted to register it for another race.
Launceston Mayor Albert Van Zetten and Deputy Mayor Danny Gibson also got in on the action with their boat designed by University of Tasmania engineering students.
They faced off against Youngtown Rotary Club president Chris Westlake and member Jan Beams in a leaders challenge.
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Despite coming second Cr Van Zetten said the boat performed well.
"The problem was probably us a little bit," he said.
Civil engineering students Isaac Probert, Dylan Villiers and Joseph Holloway helped design a boat for the 'leaders challenge' at the soggy bottom cardboard boat regatta as part of their work experience.
The challenge saw Youngtown Rotary club president Chris Westlake and Jan Beams face off against Mayor Albert Van Zetten and Deputy Mayor Danny Gibson.
The students said one of the hardest parts of the build was knowing where to start.
"There are photos of previous years and what not but as you can tell the event is largely run and won by young children," Mr Probert said.
"Obviously there is a bit of a mass difference between young children and fully grown adults."
The event was organised by a collaboration of Rotary clubs with funds raised going to Diabetes Tasmania.
Soggy Bottom Event Committee chair Lee Dyson said the turn out for the event was amazing.
He said they had roughly double the amount of people as last year despite the poor weather at the start of the day.
