Too Fast to Be Legal: The Shark Skin Scandal

Bob Hawke looks down the camera and says: any boss who sacks an employee for not showing up today is a bum. A nation stops. Beer is raised. A boat wins. A jacket becomes iconic. That’s what we remember. But under the surface, something else was happening. Not just a race between boats, but a race in how water itself was being handled. A surface that didn’t fight the flow, but shaped it. This episode sits inside that moment. It traces what happens when performance shifts from effort to design....