Sailing
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Lloyd "helping" Pep Manthorpe
work on "Josephine", November 1959. |
As a youth my Dad had been in the sea scouts and sailed in
heavyweight Sharpies at the Whyalla Yacht Club. He'd
sometimes go out sailing with Pep Manthorpe on his yacht
"Josephine".
I grew up reading the books of
Sir Francis Chichester and Joshua Slocum.
Thus in the early 1970s, it wasn't a surprise that Dad decided
to build a Heron dinghy for us to sail in.
For many years, Dad still had the Heron, "Jurra", parked in the
driveway in Sydney. Of course, he would never sell it.
I concocted a plan to
get it down to me in Victoria and make it ship shape again. It would have been nice
for Dad's grandchildren to have the opportunity to learn to sail in the boat
their Grandfather built and taught us to sail in. That would have had a nice symmetry,
but sadly didn't happen.
Local time: 1:37 am Friday 5 December 2025
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