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www.adelaidenow.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipesBUSINESSMAN and adventurer Dick Smith has been made a Rear Admiral of the Lake Eyre Yacht Club as sailors roll into a small South Australian town for the club's rare desert regatta.
"I am THE Rear Admiral of the yacht club," Mr Smith said today.
"And to commemorate this we will put a big marina there, I think, something bigger than in Dubai," he joked.
The clubhouse sits in the small town of Marree, 685km north of Adelaide, on the edge of the desert in SA.
Its members can only sail on the very rare occasion when floodwaters from other states turn the salt beds into vast inland lakes.
Commodore Bob Backway says sailing in the desert is a rare and glorious experience.He is expecting 200 people and sixty boats to take part in the club's 10th birthday regatta from July 5 to 9 on Lake Killamperunna, where Cooper Creek crosses the Birdsville Track, about an hour and a half north of Marree.
