The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
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Forlorn Hope -1864
A flawed attempt to settle Australia’s ‘empty north’ triggered an epic 2,300NM open boat voyage along the unexplored northwest coast, from Van Diemen Gulf down to today’s Geraldton.
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