Record Breaker

The UAE, mainly Dubai and Abu Dhabi, are constantly raising the bar and creating world records of some type or other. As I have mentioned, Dubai, at half a mile high, is building the worlds tallest tower, at 5,555m long Abu Dhabi had the worlds longest inaugural ribbon and in Liwa a month ago, they broke the record for the largest plates of dates ever, a steel plate 10.06m by 2.03m with over 2,000kg of dates or over 2 tonnes.


Well even though I am in the UAE, I am proud to say I have played a small part in a world record that Britain has achieved. Yesterday on the River Thames, Britain broke their own world record and held the largest ever yellow rubber duck race.

The record in 2006 was held by Singapore who raced 100,000 of our rubber friends over a 1km distance. In 2007, Britain rose to the challenge and broke that record by racing a staggering 165,000 of these loved creatures a kilometre down the River Thames. On August the 31st 2008, Britain, to safeguard their record, raced an amazing 250,000 rubber ducks from Molesey Lock, near Hampton Court Bridge the 1km to Sherriff Boat Club at Albany Reach. The race took around 3 hours, and the sponsor of the winning duck won 10,000 pounds. My part I sponsored 5 of the little fellas, and though it was a tight fought race, doesn't seem like any finished amongst the leading pack. Still, money was raised for a good cause and a world record firmly secured for Britain ............. for now!