The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.
Destructive Valuing
If you are looking for someone willing to spend a few million dollars restoring a very beautiful 1910 Herreschoff schooner that’s lying wrecked on the seabed of Osaka Harbour, Japan, would you really ask them for A$161,523?
Never to Float Again
After almost two weeks of uncertainty, and six months' worth of mud drying on the weary paddle wheeler's hull, Longreach tourism company Outback Pioneers revealed the boat would not be able to cruise again.
PRIDE OF THE MURRAY will Rise Again
It's an ignominious resting place for the 99-year-old wooden paddle wheeler, which attracted national headlines when it was trucked nearly 1,750 kilometres from country Victoria to Longreach in May 2022.
Port Lincoln's historic fishing vessel rots on the seabed
The ALMONTA remains on the seabed, its crow's nest and railings breaking the surface of the calm waters of Porter Bay and lilting precariously to one side.
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