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Destroyer
At last the series final has arrived, and, perhaps appropriately, the key to victory is destruction. The challenge is to build destroyers – vessels that can sink anything in their path. The first to scupper the enemy and land at the island claims the coveted Scrapheap trophy.
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Barley Pickers
The Barley Pickers are a team of Devonshire farmers. Andy Barnes, the captain, is a dairy, arable and beef farmer. Keeping the wheels turning on the farm is one of his responsibilities. Robin Bright is self-employed and says he's regularly told: 'It's a good job you work for yourself – nobody else is going to give you a job.' Keith Sparks's day always starts with checking and feeding livestock (which includes 31,000 cockerels and 100 beef cattle), but like most farmers he can and does turn his hand to more or less anything.
The Barley Pickers' new TC is Simeon 'Sim' Oakley, a freelance designer/fabricator who has built a wide range of marine vessels, from boats to hovercrafts. 'Clients come to me with a brief and I build whatever they want,' he says. His claim to fame is that he was the Scrapheap chief engineer for the first three series, so he's worked on pretty much every junk machine imaginable.
The Barley Pickers are sons of the soil and may find themselves all at sea. But these farmers are formidable bodgers. Can they reap the ultimate reward?
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Boat Buoys
This is a team of boat specialists who go banger racing in their spare time. Toby Kilner spent many years as a marine engineer and now builds houseboats. Johnny Boys has always had an interest in taking things apart and reconstructing them. For a living he buys and sells boats and engines. Monty Ravenscroft built his own workshop when he was 15 and has slaved in it ever since, building a variety of custom cars, inventions and design prototypes.
This week the Boat Buoys' TC is Iain Thomas, who has seawater running in his veins after 30 years of sailing, including two trans-Atlantic crossings, six Fastnet races, and more than 100 offshore yacht races. He also has huge experience as a boat designer and boat builder.
This seems like the perfect challenge for the Boat Buoys. But might they get that sinking feeling all the same?
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The expert
Paul Mara first became intrigued by boats when, at the tender age of four, he fell out of one. He wanted to know why the boat floated and he didn't. Paul now lives on a houseboat in Hammersmith and works as a training officer for the Thames's largest passenger boat operator. In his spare time he is chief instructor of a Royal Yachting Association school and one of the country's most experienced powerboat drivers. But perhaps what most qualifies Paul for the job of expert in the final of Scrapheap Challenge is that he has sunk a houseboat and also overturned an apparently uncapsizeable speedboat – twice, in one outing.
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