In pictures: Grangemouth crowds get all enthusiastic for duck shaped yellow plastic

Duck sponsors were looking on with anticipation as their buoyant bath time toys raced – albeit very slowly – to take the chequered flag.

In the end it was Yvonne Wilson’s duck (number 613) who came first with Claire Headridge (581) a close second and Elspeth Shepherd (319) coming in third place.

The big winner of Saturday’s event was charity, with £1300 raised from the purchase of ducks and donations.

As you can see from Alan Murray’s photographs, the afternoon was more about good old fashioned family fun than anything else.