The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Peter Mander - Give a Man a Boat
Both Mander and Tasker published books with accounts of this career defining competition. They reveal different approaches to sailing mostly defined by character.
The Sharpie Story - Saving Sabre
The collective archives of our nation are suffering slow strangulation by lack of commitment and funding. The National Library of Australia, the National Museum, the National Film & Sound Archive, the ABC and various State Maritime Museums are struggling. Collections are deteriorating and large parts remain undigitised. Archivists, researchers and librarians have been sacked and if retained have been ironically rebranded as Knowledge Keepers or Navigators.
The Sharpie Story - Finding Sabre
The word Sharpie has always appealed. They were 1960’s working class street gangs with flash style and tough attitude. Melbourne’s own West Side Story was Romper Stomper, a movie made in Footscray and Spotswood, next door to the Royal Yacht Club Victoria in Williamstown. The club had its own fleet of Sharpies in the 1950’s and 60’s and hosted the Olympic Sharpies at the 1956 regatta.
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