District Billy Cart Derby :: Sunday 27th August 2006

Avast, all ye scurvy Cubs! No landlubbers to be found at th' helm at this years event - only a pack of old seadogs. Batten th' hatches and brace th' mainsail, prepare for some storm runnin' as this years event goes Nautical. It looks like it'll be one helluva derby! Arrrh!!

A quick jump to have a look at the Billy Cart Derby Photos > > >

The Event

Theme: 20,000 Leagues under the sea
 
Venue: Clifford Park; MEL 24 J6 [Google Maps] using oval area and Rowallan hut
 
Cost: $5- per Cub
$2- per Adult/Spectator
 
Weather: Rain hail or shine

The format

Rather than using "Billy Carts" this year we will use a "Billy Box". The box will be a "Henley-on-Todd" regatta craft made from cardboard, plastic, string, .... you get the picture ;) These are a 'bottomless' boat raced in a dry river bed.

Central Australia's annual Henley on Todd is a boat race with a difference. It's held on the dry sands of the Todd River that runs through the centre of Alice Springs. Custom designed bottomless boats allow contestants to run, scramble and stumble their way through a variety of traditionally inspired but completely novel events.
[George Negus Tonight, ABC]

For the Cub version: all Craft must have an 'under the sea' theme and encircle the crew.
(Multiple small craft that encircle the crew will be ok for this event.)
Award for the best entry.

Please note that all carts will be scrutineered after judging to ensure that they are safe for competition.

Need a Notice?

Proposed Program

timeline for 10.30AM – 4.00PM

10:30	Check in
10:45am	Assembly
11:00	Inspection [theme - 50 pts?]
	(+ scruitineering for safety)
11:30am	"TREASURE HUNT"
12:00	Lunch
12:30	Events "20,000 Leagues under the sea"
	2 laps around bases?
	scoring: 10pts per cart per activity


Confirmed Activity Bases
	* Bosun’s locker : Swampies/Wattle Glen
	* Yellow Submarine : 1st Plenty
	* Pirate Craft : 1st Hurstbridge 
	* Lower Plenty - "The Spanish Armada" torpedoes/shanghai
	* 1st Plenty. - 'Yellow Submarine' 
	* 1st Eltham Sweeny - tba
	* 1st Eltham Gellibrand - The Admiralty's Tall Ship Training 
	* Eltham North - tba
	* Research - tba


eg. Activity Bases
	* Sunken Wreck
	* Octopus' Garden
	* Kelp Forest
	* Pirate Ship/Mutiny (Pirates of the Caribbean)
	* Arial, Sebastian
	* King Neptunes trident
	* Grid location in the sandpit ... clues? (as per survivor)
	* Sirens
	* Davey Jones' Locker
	* Captain Nemo's crash course in submarination (race)
	* Beach Volley Ball
	* squid tossing

2:30 Obstacle course/Challenge Valley ?
3:30 Presentation
4:00 Pick up time 

How will it work?

TROPHY
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* Best Theme cart/costume
* King of the Paddock
* best activity (leaders/groups)
* best obstacle course
* "Titanic" crash award

ENTRY
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* $5- per Cub
* $2- per Adult/Spectator
* min.4 - max. 6 cubs per cart (Aged between 7 and 11)
* no uniform, come in costume
* pack scarf should be used 'somehow' in cart decoration
* change of clothes as you WILL get dirty

FIRST AID STATION
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A First Aid tent with a dedicated first aider will be on-site. 

BOOK IN PROCESS
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- check in table
- per-cart pre-prepared "booking" form handed out in Seeonee
- Numbers for cart
- preprepared scoring sheets

SAUSAGE SIZZLE
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A sausage sizzle will be provided by 1st Eltham Scouts. 
Buy a sausage in bread and help wit the Scout's Jamboree fund!

NEED TO KNOW:
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* Estimate of what happeining at each base? (10 minutes at the base)
* Number of kids at a base at any time =  N(teams) x 6(ship)
	{dependant on number of bases + number of ships}
* need feed back within next fortnight (end of July) regarding what the bases are

Packs to provided a base; if required packs can combine to run base
- resources physical and head-counts

	eg. 
	Eltham North will combine on the day to raun a single base

Looking for more?

For more information regarding Henley-on-Todd craft construction see our Henley-on-Todd craft pages. (comming soon to a screen near you)

For more information regarding the Henley-on-Todd regatta see the Wikipedia or Answers.com pages.

For more information regarding Billy Carts, Billy Cart construction and Billy Cart Derby see our Billy Cart pages.

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