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Reminds me of the time when (with a friend) we lugged a Celestron-8 with its tripod to the Gap at Watsons Bay to observe the start of the Sydney Hobart race. We had by far the biggest "cannon"... more as a joke than to do anything serious with it.
The filthy looks and *****-envy writ large on the faces of many other photographers were priceless - many had spent quite large sums of money for relatively piddling lenses that looked like of tin of salmon stuck on a stalk.
I should add that anything more than 500mm FL is not very useful photographically looking down the harbour, while in moments of passable seeing you can read the names on the caps of the crew at the start line, the turbulence will ruin a photo - at any shutter speed, and IS is not a solution...
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