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From the collection of Queenscliffe Maritime Museum

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Functional object - Salvage from Couta Boat

Significance

The couta boat Pilota was hand built by Alf Fredrickson of Portland in 1900 for Les (Slippery) Eales of Port Fairy. The vessel was wrecked at Port Fairy in the 1980s with loss of two lives. The oar was broken during the wrecking

Physical description

Couta Boat Parts: mast, rudder, centre board plate, 1 oar blade & loom in 2 parts, pair of knees, samson post, fairlead, 2 tiller & bow sprit [Jib boom] from the couta boat PILOTA built in 1900.

Subjects

References

A couta boat is a type of boat sailed in Victoria, Australia, around Sorrento and Queenscliff and along Victoria's west coast as far west as Portland. It was originally used as a traditional fishing boat around the coast there from around 1870 until the 1930s, although it survived as a commercial fishing vessel until the 1950s.
The Oxford companion to Ships and the sea ISBN/ISSN: 0-19-282084-2 Boat part references

Identifier

2016-001

Production methods

Handmade

Materials

wood

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Accessed 24 April 2024

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