The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Peter Mounsey & the LARAPINTA
“I’d like to live to be 100 and die at sea,” Peter Mounsey says. The way he's going he'll live well beyond that. And why isn't he a “National Living Treasure” I ask?
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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