How did they keep the grain dry in those rough seas?

Moshulu..i walked around on..if its the one on display in Philadelphia. It was re named. But i was told it was simply a ship used to transport fertilizer. Like it was nothing more then a waste barge. Kind of a degrading thing to say, if the same ship was a grain carrier with a crew of such men that raced around the cape! If it was one of those ships, the true story of it should be told. To me, its far more respectible then just a gun ship representation. Tell its truth, & give it the respect its earned. It was in the 70s when i was on it, but the history beyond the fertilizer wasn't told then.

Great content, a real pleasure to watch. Thankyou

thankyou Garry for your videos, i can remember as a boy helping fisherman in the 1970s lakes entrance pull in nets along 90 mile beach and been given a huge salmon, big as a log for helping pull nets to shore, i enjoy the history and early wooden boats, cheers mate

_A wonderful story, and _*_well told!_* thanks

My stepfather Otto Olsen of Stevanger Norway. Left home at 14 went on a whaling sailing ship. He went around the horn many times. His main complaint was the freezing atmosphere. He had a very hard life. Lived until he was 70 years old, made his home in Tiger Bay, Cardiff.

Shame

I did it twice on a jetski back in 86.

Thanks Garry.

Thanks again Gary for yet another fascinating & important interview. I doubt there's many in the league of Dugga, I used to see him almost daily during the mid 90's at some stages in October & November while working aboard a fishing charter vessel out from Patterson River-Carrum. Along with his daughter they'd be longlining snapper from the distinct blue vessel Francis, named after his wife. He'd always give us a rundown report of the previous few days of work, most of which was factored by winds & or water clarity-temperatures. Back in 2011 I was running a snapper charter on my own charter vessel & was off Sandringham. Dugga much earlier that morning had laid his longline right along the region a bunch of us were fishing & was retrieving it amongst us all. He was an absolute gentleman & slowly maneuvered through us pulling some fine fish in the process & quietly went along to the next set. Was great watching him slide past & say a quick hello to the 5 guys aboard. Thankyou Dugga, you have & you'll always be such an inspiration to so many in Melbourne.

If you count the number of prawns?

Gary I was thinking a live movie with Josh Rule would be a great boat story. Josh Rule is the grandson of Bill Mitchell! Might be wise to write Joshua's father into it. Gunner Genson.

Absolute gems 💎

U are a true legend mate,THAKS FOR THE GREAT STORIES What's the biggest snapper u caught, And did u ever see and big GREAT WHITES AND DID TUNA EVER SCHOOL UP IN THE BAY

Bloody legend mate.

Good film Gary, met a guy named kirk this week maybe he was 60 started his boat building apprenticeship with pompeis when he was 14 went on to work for Lacco amazing once the salt touches you it connects you.

👏👏👏 great thanks very much 🙏

What a legend.

Great video cheers!

Two & half inch beach nets . . 20m by 1.5 drop , legal without license NT till 2002 , caught everything big & small except Spanish mackerel torpedo's . . caught smaller dog mackerel inside Darwin harbor no problem

Another excellent video Gary

Another great one Garry , im from the other side of the bay seaford area but these are great stories Cheers .

Great video Garry. 👍

Thank you Garry, I just love these vids. Hey but I just saw another commenter offering & thought. I'm 70 now, retired W.A. desert truckie, mostly triple flatops out to the mines. 50 years in the outback. The thing is, that I knew many of the old school bush characters hereabouts. Prospectors, miners, machinery contractors, stockmen, policemen, etc. etc., all eccentrics, mostly good folk, the odd wrong'un, therefore crazy stories. If you've any interest, I may be able to add to your knowledge base of such. Let me know by reply & I'll give you my number.

I met Dugga in 1986. Couta boats, I wish I listened to him then. Alas I was 16 and couldn’t be told anything. Fantastic interview, thank you.

Excellent Garry,, always a real pleasure,, thankyou

Best video you have done,love all your videos. As a kid I fished at St Lenard’s with an old bloke ,Daniel.(might have been a Rigby)net fishing in Swan Bay.He had a Couta and a net boat.1962.

Great work mate thanks 😊 👍

Great interview Gary. Hi Dugga. There are so many stories that I could tell you about Dugga and all the boats he has saved. And some of the stories are amazing. Really, there is so much more, you could do an hour or more ,easy. His knowledge of the bay and the Yarra and beyond and the people who fished there could fill books. Talk about old school , genuine ,helpful sharing. He always has time to chat. Got to know him in the mid 80s. I was boat mad and he helped so much with advice and materials when I was restoring a sunk old Peter Lock 16ft Couta boat. I used to do a bit of the leathering of the outhaul rings on his sailboats. I think he let me do it because he could see how keen I was just to have anything at all to do with boats.And talk about generous , he used to let me and a mate and other people use his boats any time we wanted. He loved to see them out sailing along the Port Melb beach. When we got back he would give us a good review of how we had the boat rigged and how we could get more out of her. Talking about that old cotton fishing line, he still had bundles of it in his shed and I asked him what he did with it as it was no longer being used . It was a big bundle of spaghetti and Dugga said if I wanted to untangle it I could have it. I was doing some fancy knotting at the time and thought I struck gold. If you are interested ,and with Digga's ok I would be happy to share the stories of just the time I spent with him while he was fixing up another old wreck to pristine sailing condition. Heres my number if its any good to you . 0412517524. Hope that works. Or you can ask Dugga for my number. Your work is so important about fishing and boats in Australai.Cheers.Roman

In the early 1920 s my Grandfather went from Rosyth to Vancouver, round Cape Horne, in a ship that resembled a Clyde Puffer. In his log he describes the crew - the cook, who had been on sailng ships described as an old " shell back" with so many stoeries about life on sailing ships ,for as long as you had time to listen Bavarian, and a big Highlander who had seen better days. They battled thru the Bay of Biscay, needed repairs at the Azores, and eventually reached Vancouver. A photograph of him and his cousin at the Redwood Tree.

I was use to seeing frozen squid as cray bait in Tasmania. Every boat had boxes and boxes. Then I started work in Victoria and the first job was spot audits at Portland. I looked down into the ice room could not work out what these strange looking things stacked neatly in boxes. I asked the owner and said they where horse hoofs from the nackery, or pet food factory??, they used them as cray bait. My felow surveyor never saw a wheel house with a pot belly stove and a pile of fire wood. He asked me what we should do about it? Nothing but get them to put a hand rail around it so they wont fall over it.

It was always a pleasure to meet and talk to Les Warren and survey his vessel in Eden. Great family.

Who in the hell did they think was gonna eat all this. What a bunch of dumb ass

FANTASTIC STUFF . Were the threaded bolts machine/ die cut then galvanised? Was this for the keels and floor frames? Were all the timber stringers frames, and keel kept underwater until cut? How long do you steam for each inch thickness?

Fantastic documentry. One of the problems is that the ocean floor is limestone without thick layer of mud or sand. Even now ships do not like to anchor outside th port because the anchors drag over the limestone and don't grip. This was told to me by a tug master operating out of Portland.

Wonderful documentary. Thankyou !!

I remember in late 80's every restaurant had orange roughy. now nobody has seen any forever.

You would never get me up the sails... afraid of heights... wondering what people afraid of heights forced up the sails fared?

When ships were made of wood and men of steel

Being an old seafarer, I love stories like this. Well done to the Cayzers. Thanks Garry.

Hi, my name's Ben, my grandfather was Richard Chesterman, his father and family ran Chesterman and co 🙂

Sail around the horn 8 years, then rear gunner in a bomber, WW2 ,then ride motorcycle in Australia rest of your life. Wow a man couldn't ask for more.

Gary, the two masted Ketch at 12:10 looks like the Hawk. Is it so?

I remember old Roger "Doc" Howlett i worked with him for years when the Tuna farming industry first started.He was always a gentleman,always willing to tell a yarn and always ready for a beer or a "Cape Baron cocktail " which was Coke and Port .He was a pioneer in a few fishing ventures.RIP Doccy.I worked a couple seasons on the old Boston Bay purse seining Tuna many years ago i remember it got to the end of the season and all i wanted to do was grab my gear and head off for a break and a few beers and to visit a girlfriend in Whyalla .The late Sam Sarin ( also worked with skippers Neddo Letnic and Smytzer on there ) was skipper and he wasn't a real fan of days off during the season ,you unloaded, fueled up ,mended the net and went back to sea no matter how long you had just been out there.If people needed cigarettes or anything else one person was allowed to take everyone's money and go buy them we wouldn't even get off the wharf .Anyway i had my bags and was walking down the wharf however i didn't get more than a couple of hundred yards when the cook off the Boston Bay pulled up in a car with some bloke i didn't know who was a skipper off a prawn boat he had lost one deckie and desperately needed someone to fill the job so he could go out that afternoon ....so i turned around and walked back down the wharf and ended up out in the Gulf for the next two weeks .Money was good though which was handy as i had built up quite a thirst by the time we got back in.Good old days they were ,never see them again

I am sure they understand the actions they took, ultimately had. The people coming on here slathering around the gumbs over how evil these guys are should go and look at the mines the glass from their phones come from or the batteries from that are needed to run EVs. Just because you are 2 or 3 removed from the r*ping of resources every single person living in the west requires just to live, does not mean you are above anyone. For you to live, many things have to die and the greed gene is in every single human being. It is reasonably obvious they realised the destruction they contributed to.

What is a "score"? Example "we had about 20 score"

What a fantastic documentary ! Such courage these men had! wonderful - Enjoyed every minute! Thank you :-)

What a fantastic visual record of these hard men, gives Patrick O'briens books perspective.

having gone to school at Eden N.S.W, "Twofold bay" ( 3:02 ) and "Imlay" ( 3:06 ) are both boats that i knew of. is there anything out there on youtube about Eden or its fishing industry?

Destroyed the land