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 Front cover: Sailing – Audi Victoria Week 2010, Geelong.
Photo by Teri Dodds.
Every Month
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The Wooden Boat Shop
by Bruce Stannard
Tim Phillips is Australia’s most successful wooden boat builder. His Wooden Boat Shop at Sorrento, employs 27 tradesmen and apprentices and each year turns out a steady stream of beautiful Couta Boats and traditional launches... more »
Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge
by Alan Lucas
As a kid, if I wasn’t on the Lane Cove River trying to drown myself with corrugated iron canoes sealed with fresh road tar, kerosene-tin rafts and aeroplane belly tanks, I could be found at Central Railway Station transfixed by the comings and goings of steam trains... more »
Tom Blaxell - You can’t keep a pioneer down
by Gregory Blaxell
Tom Blaxell is acknowledged as being one of the founders of the boating industry in Western Australia. Gregory Blaxell* asked Tom to tell his story... more »
Australia’s Flat-tops Part 2: Considering the Australian Defence Force’s new helicopter carriers
by Graeme Andrews
Graeme Andrews* describes the new Australian LHDs and explains how they could offer two roles – if the RAAF decides to co-operate with the purchase of new fighters... more »
Slaughterhouse Sally - An end to mooring minders
by David Everdell
Slaughterhouse Sally, the sentinel seagull sits nesting among the stench of the faeces covered fly-bridge on a squalid and slimy ‘mooring minder’ and I am in the sad situation of being her neighbour... more »
No Beach out of Reach
They look unusual, they sound noisy, they can go on any surface and there are not many around – they’re quite a specialised vehicle, a bit pricey for their size as they are not commercialised and are uniquely handmade … sometimes one off build... more »
Down the Rhine to Strasbourg Part 1 from Kembs-Niffer to Breisach
by Valerie Helps
Having cruised along the river Doubs and the Canal du Rhône au Rhin from St Jean-de-Losne to Kembs-Niffer (Afloat, May’10) Valerie Helps* and photographer Geoffrey Bull now tackle the mighty Rhine to Strasbourg... more »
Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010
by Patrick ‘Tenpin’ Bollen
“We gotta get outta this place, if it’s the last thing we ever do.” Sung by the great Eric Burdon of the celebrated sixties band the Animals, these words must have haunted the minds of many these past five wet and chilly weeks... more » |
