Beautiful, many thanks. I first went to see with my father on my grandfather's fishing boat at age 5. now I'm in my 70s looking back at it all and have just acquired a wooden 42' ketch on which I'll retire and sail the same waters of Alaska I worked for over 60 years, into the sunset.
Thankyou. In the early 60s I can remember my uncle on the back of the old combine harvester filling the old hessian bags up with wheat and lifting them onto the old dodge truck to take them down to the Tumby Bay jetty to be collected. Those days the men were strong and very resilient. 👏😁🇦🇺
"Lady Doris" appeared in Rose Bay, Sydney in 1964. She was grey to the gun'ls with black bulwarks. I was mad for anything that spoke of the old days of sail, so a friend and I rowed out and went aboard her without permission. I was fascinated. Every inch of her was covered in ancient layers of paint curling up like autumn leaves. Such things as gaff jaws and belaying pins I had only seen in pictures. One thing I will never forget was her fore stay. It was an iron rod of about an inch in diameter.
"I have seen ketches that are gone" - just beautiful. So simple, direct and moving. Thank you all.
i love the way you've recorded old days, old ways gone by.
Thank you garry.
Beautiful, many thanks. I first went to see with my father on my grandfather's fishing boat at age 5. now I'm in my 70s looking back at it all and have just acquired a wooden 42' ketch on which I'll retire and sail the same waters of Alaska I worked for over 60 years, into the sunset.
Fantastic! I shall never think of crab farts in the same light again.
Great reminiscences Garry....love these videos
Thankyou. In the early 60s I can remember my uncle on the back of the old combine harvester filling the old hessian bags up with wheat and lifting them onto the old dodge truck to take them down to the Tumby Bay jetty to be collected. Those days the men were strong and very resilient. 👏😁🇦🇺
OMG! Thank you all so much for saving this detailed history!
What a fantastic story, thank you!
What a delight! Thanks
Brilliant poetry, love it.
Great story teller and a gentle man,thanks.
many thanks , such a great & intersting story.
Thank you for this wonderful info
Thank you for all your good hard work dear sir, good wind on your sails 🙏
Loved this. Thanks for uploading. :-)
Excellent
"Lady Doris" appeared in Rose Bay, Sydney in 1964. She was grey to the gun'ls with black bulwarks. I was mad for anything that spoke of the old days of sail, so a friend and I rowed out and went aboard her without permission. I was fascinated. Every inch of her was covered in ancient layers of paint curling up like autumn leaves. Such things as gaff jaws and belaying pins I had only seen in pictures. One thing I will never forget was her fore stay. It was an iron rod of about an inch in diameter.
Surely do a video about south west western australias logging industry it's jam packed with culture and history, real tough men workin that bush.
Thankyou Garry and others involved. Thouroughly entertaining, history now recorded and saved.
Really enjoyed that thanks for posting
Well done thank you.
Thank you for this short peek into the closing days of that simpler time.
SHINE BRIGHT GARRY💥🙌💪
What a great life.
anyone know anything about the small sailing ships that traded between Geelong and Tasmania..around 1954/55 ??
😂 "He was a devout commo...well he wasn't so communistic when you were working for him!"