The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Save Sea Hawk
She’s had a number of different lives. When new in 1920, she took parties out sailing and for picnics from Sorrento Pier on Port Phillip, something many couta boats did alongside, or as an alternative to, fishing. In 1923 SEA HAWK began her professional fishing career
The First Bermudan on the Bay?
Bassett was a forceful and decisive character who found it hard to tolerate foolishness, but was forgiving of ignorance. The uninformed he set out to educate, lucidly and patiently. He had an uncanny knack of grasping the salient problems and of solving them at the outset.
The backbone of the fishing industry
Couta Fishing Tasmanian Style. A film from 1929 thanks to the AWBF and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
Monsieur Couta
We were one of 747 boats in the Douarnenez Festival and won the Marco Polo award for having travelled the furthest. We were treated like rock stars.
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