1956 Sydney Hobart Race Film – Hard to Windward
Lin Pardy has just posted a great youtube link on the WoodenBoat Forum for the 1956 Sydney > Hobart race. Lin’s comments below
“Kim Newstead, our hosts when we were invited to speak at the Hobart Wooden Boat Festival last year, just sent along a link to a wonderful 15 minute movie someone found in their garage. It is a professionally made program (16 or 17 minutes) from the 1956 Sydney Hobart Race, all on classic wooden boats, all with cotton sails, not a harness, pulpit or stern rail to be seen. Yes, times have changed. Thought everyone here might enjoy this.”
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Fascinating!! Must dig out the relevant “Seaspray” and check it out, but I think the first boat home (and host for the film crew) was the Livingstone bros. “Kurrewa IV”, second boat Vic Meyer’s steel “Solo”.
There may not have been any harnesses evident, but there were plenty of pulpits and lifelines in sight.
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