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Hald and Johansen – Danish Boatbuilders in Sydney in the 1960s Part 2 – some of their boats
TUP is on the Australian Register of Historic Vessels. As just over half of their 36 yachts were folkies, they are in many ways H & J’s “signature” boats, and they were probably responsible for the largest number of the class in Australia
Hald and Johansen – Danish boat builders in Sydney in the 1960s.
As I later found out, this was the first boat built in Australia by a young Danish shipwright Anders Johansen, who, after teaming up with his uncle John Hald, built more than 30 yachts over 8 or so years in Sydney in the ‘60’s
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