We had this. It was silent and angry, roomy, always manned by our staff, naturally, safe beautiful, practical with a wide flat-bottom like mine. It had a slippery swift shape, for speed and economy. Built in bunks and WC. It was a well-designed little beauty. A graceful big craft with small golden-crusted fittings inside, as you do. It had a couple of huge Mercury engines. I remember well when Frank Sinatra visited us and came for a cruise on Port Phillip Bay for a day of fishing. He enjoyed it so much that he returned the following year with a young Elvis Presley. Those were the days. No life jackets, smoking, drinking and completely carefree. Image Unavailable, Please Login
Our favourite boat was our Bertram 28 ,shaft drives with 2 x 351 Fords .. Great boat 1977 to 1990. Here we are heading back from Portsea to the St.Kilda marina . Image Unavailable, Please Login
Bondwood or 'glass very popular design in the late 50s/60s. Named after your mother? Our family boats were always named after my mothers mother "Elsie Sherrin"
Not really. We named our boats after our mother too just like others on here. Our boat was called Queen Elizabeth. We flipped it to Cunard after we had it for awhile and we needed a bigger boat, just like in Jaws.
Back when we had our own private island, we had to have a vessel that suited. So we got this beauty. Fully 4.5m from bow to stern. It had two seats and a fold-up bench. Power came from a stonking 40hp Mariner two-stroke. The thing was so fast we named it “Satan’s Sleigh”. Here we are launching it at the local boat ramp. Pic probably taken just before I realised I forgot to put a rock behind the wheels and the Rangie and trailer ended up in the water (again). Image Unavailable, Please Login
