2021 DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
Welcome to our fourth Newsletter this year! MERRY CHRISTMAS! A SPECIAL AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND FEATURE! In 1962 Bill Nance worked his way into Fremantle aboard Cardinal Vertue under jury rig, after 'running his easting down' from Cape Town and losing some of his mast on the way. It was one of the most audacious passages ever completed with a Vertue, although what happened to him and the boat next was not the proudest moment for the Australian bureacratic machine. By that time, at least four other Vertues were already afloat on the…Read more