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  • On ya bike
    • Lock it or lose it
    • Lighten up
    • Bike light for all seasons, all riders: Knog Blinder Road
    • Saddle up; let’s ride
    • Best foot forward
    • If the glove fits…
    • Road risk researched from a cyclist’s point of view
    • Cycling glasses: More than a tool for cool
    • Teaching kids to ride
    • Old Aussie bikes changing lives in Africa
    • Pedal patrol
    • Ride guide Victoria – Marysville & Lake Mountain
    • North-east wine country: A tippler’s tour
  • Classic boats
    • Enterprize: The ship that founded Melbourne
    • Couta boats: Fleets of fancy
      • Couta boat craftsman: Tim Phillips
      • Lacco: The name behind the couta boat
      • Dugga Beazley: Fisherman, boatbuilder, sailor
      • First Home: The Couta Boat and Victoria’s Couta Coast
    • The 21-foot Restricted Class
      • The 21 footer restrictions
      • The 21 footer Jessamine: A letter from Ken Lacco
      • Critics of the 21 footers
    • The Tumlaren in Australia
      • Harold Clausen: Tumlaren builder
      • Tumlaren, and Selim Nurminen’s legacy
    • The Elwood Seahorse
    • Sayonara
    • A gondola on the Yarra
    • The VJ
  • People
    • Dugga Beazley: Fisherman, boatbuilder, sailor
    • Fishing on the fly
    • Brushing up the work ethic
    • Putting knowledge to work
    • Laurie Clancy: novelist, teacher, bloke
    • Reflected glory: The mirror man
    • Moto woman
    • The female bouncer
    • A girl in the boy’s car club
    • Sandy Blythe: Dynamic disability
    • Extinct jobs, dinosaur technology
    • The tax whisperer
    • Back to the beach
    • Australian society: Its customs and behaviours
    • Jobs that no longer exist (and some technology)
  • Money matters
    • Wacky tax facts (WTF)
    • Saving 101
    • Take control of your money: Budget planning 101
    • What’s an asset class?
    • Growth versus income
    • What is open source software? And can it save you money?
    • Strong dollar + online shopping = safety compromise?
    • What a business’s balance sheet will tell you
    • Facts, and conversation starters, about Australian money
  • Vino
    • North-east wine country: A tippler’s tour
    • The un-spin doctor
    • Old world nuance, new world nous
    • Gary Farr: winemaker
    • Cope-Williams Winery
    • Cheviot Bridge
    • Duck Muck
    • Drive drinking: the great grape road
    • High and mighty
    • The vines that tie
    • Secs and the City
    • Go with the flow
    • Just add water…
    • Yarra Valley: The wine, the history
    • Tradition gets high-tech
    • James Halliday & pinot noir
    • Kings of cool
    • Get centred
    • Home made wine: The tradition continues
  • All in the family
    • Life in Rosebud in the early years: by Vin Burnham
    • Fishing the southern bay and outside in the early days
    • Early days in Rosebud, Victoria
    • A letter from Jack Bates on fishing with the Burnham boys
    • Myrtle Burnham – her life, as told by herself
      • Uncle Les’s letter to his mum
    • A tale of two gravesites
  • Fiction
    • Benny’s Witness
      • Audiobook/podcast
    • The trouble with…
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Couta boats:
   Fleets of Fancy
   The Lacco legacy
   Tim Phillips, couta craftsman
The 21 foot Restricted Class
The class restrictions
Jessamine: A letter from Ken Lacco
Critics have their say
Tumlaren
Selim Nurminen’s legacy
One builder’s tale
Sayonara
The VJ
Gondola on the Yarra
The Enterprize:
The launch
The ship that founded Melbourne
The Elwood Seahorse
Wraith of Hamble
Boats and insurance

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