Only knobs need apply: Festival of the Knob celebrated this weekend

Only a real knob can be crowned King Knob. The Festival of the Knob kicks off tomorrow at the Far North’s knobbiest beach.

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ONLY a real knob can be crowned King Knob.

On Saturday, new knobby royalty will be elected on the shores of knobbiest of all beach communities, Yorkeys Knob.

The renown Festival of the Knob kicks off at 10am, with 100 stalls, music and entertainment till 4pm.

But most importantly, a new King and Queen will be ordained with knobby crowns by the Yorkey’s Knob Residents Association.

“It’s time to hand over my reign,” outgoing King of the Knob, Peter Mapstone, 50, said.

“The crown has timber knobs - it suits the humour of the day,” he said.

King Peter has been a Yorkey’s resident for eight years.

“I am a true knobster,” he said.

“We have been getting quite a few nominations but I’m not sure who will be elected.”

One of his last duties was to welcome ashore a no doubt perplexed American sailor Jacob Hendrikson who had rowed from the United States over eleven months and drifted off course to Trinity Beach.

“The Coast Guard towed him back to Yorkeys” King Peter said.

After eleven months alone at sea, the sight of a knobby king might drive anyone into hysteria, but Mr Hendrikson seemed to have handled the welcome in his stride.

The Festival of the Knov has been going strong since 2005 and is a celebration of knobby pride in the Cairns beaches.

“It gets bigger every year - we have people who come in from other beach suburbs now,” King Pete said.

Originally published as Only knobs need apply: Festival of the Knob celebrated this weekend