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The SWS Summer Playlist

Here are the tunes you’ll need for these holidays. All songs reference boats and sailing in at least a fleeting way.

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Flotsam #2

Every week you’ll find snippets of stories from around the globe. This week in Flotsam - The AGE profiles Wyruna.

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The Life & Times of Yacht Ida

In the spring of 1895 Charles Bailey Jr and his younger brother Walter, trading as “C. & W. Bailey”, built the 5 rater Ida for their good customers, merchants Jagger brothers and W. Frater Jr. …. The restoration process commenced with cutting off the rotting, cabin top, decking and beams.

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Australian Wooden Boat Festival

it’s good to see that despite the cancellation of the 2021 Australian Wooden Boat Festival, the organisers led by Paul Stephanus, have decided to go ahead with the spectacular biennial Parade of Sail on the Derwent. on Sunday 7th of February 2021.

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Finding Aloa

ALOA has quite a special history. She was designed by AC Barber (perhaps most famous for designing the first Sydney Hobart winner RANI) and built in Berry's Bay just north of Goat Island in Sydney Harbour, possibly by Charles Pugh.

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