RACE the Rubeena had a great turnout this year, hitting capacity at 300 entrants mid-last week, despite the event’s cancellation because of COVID-19 in 2020.
People sprinted, ran, jogged, walked and everything in between to try and beat the historic Rubeena – the oldest boat on Victoria’s boating register – from Longford Swing Bridge to the Port of Sale.
This year the race, which raises money for Central Gippsland Health and Sale Rotary Club’s community projects, included two dragon boats manned by the newly-formed Gippsland Water Dragons, who paddled the five kilometres back to the Port of Sale along the Thomson River and Flooding Creek.
More in Friday’s Gippsland Times.
