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Goondooloo Gone

The crew of 1958 pilot cutter Goondooloo called police at 3:45pm on Wednesday after the vessel experienced a mechanical failure in D'Entrecasteaux Channel, in the state's south.

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Destructive Valuing

If you are looking for someone willing to spend a few million dollars restoring a very beautiful 1910 Herreschoff schooner that’s lying wrecked on the seabed of Osaka Harbour, Japan, would you really ask them for A$161,523?

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Never to Float Again

After almost two weeks of uncertainty, and six months' worth of mud drying on the weary paddle wheeler's hull, Longreach tourism company Outback Pioneers revealed the boat would not be able to cruise again.

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PRIDE OF THE MURRAY will Rise Again

It's an ignominious resting place for the 99-year-old wooden paddle wheeler, which attracted national headlines when it was trucked nearly 1,750 kilometres from country Victoria to Longreach in May 2022.

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