Noel Smith - Ketch Hand

[@ianking-w6f]

i love the way you've recorded old days, old ways gone by. Thank you garry.

[@davidotness6199]

Beautiful, many thanks. I first went to see with my father on my grandfather's fishing boat at age 5. now I'm in my 70s looking back at it all and have just acquired a wooden 42' ketch on which I'll retire and sail the same waters of Alaska I worked for over 60 years, into the sunset.

[@andrewdennison5700]

"I have seen ketches that are gone" - just beautiful. So simple, direct and moving. Thank you all.

[@bradwilson6601]

OMG! Thank you all so much for saving this detailed history!

[@peterlovett5841]

Fantastic! I shall never think of crab farts in the same light again.

[@colinvandenhoff2612]

Great reminiscences Garry....love these videos

[@bustercrabbe8447]

Fisherman are the salt of the earth. An old school Fisherman like I grew up with here in Boston, Massachusetts USA. Good for you Sir!

[@davidrandall7708]

Thank you for this wonderful info

[@stathiskokto]

Thank you for all your good hard work dear sir, good wind on your sails 🙏

[@MrMoto63]

Great story teller and a gentle man,thanks.

[@bradwilson6601]

What a fantastic story, thank you!

[@stuartbrown5783]

Loved this. Thanks for uploading. :-)

[@wandeenboatbuilding3524]

What a delight! Thanks

[@jeffb6131]

Brilliant poetry, love it.

[@dleogump2752]

many thanks , such a great & intersting story.

[@arthurdunger4223]

Thankyou Garry and others involved. Thouroughly entertaining, history now recorded and saved.

[@nledaig]

Excellent

[@SWbushy]

Surely do a video about south west western australias logging industry it's jam packed with culture and history, real tough men workin that bush.

[@michaelpage7691]

Thankyou. In the early 60s I can remember my uncle on the back of the old combine harvester filling the old hessian bags up with wheat and lifting them onto the old dodge truck to take them down to the Tumby Bay jetty to be collected. Those days the men were strong and very resilient. 👏😁🇦🇺

[@johnmcdyer7297]

Really enjoyed that thanks for posting

[@2011Matz]

"Lady Doris" appeared in Rose Bay, Sydney in 1964. She was grey to the gun'ls with black bulwarks. I was mad for anything that spoke of the old days of sail, so a friend and I rowed out and went aboard her without permission. I was fascinated. Every inch of her was covered in ancient layers of paint curling up like autumn leaves. Such things as gaff jaws and belaying pins I had only seen in pictures. One thing I will never forget was her fore stay. It was an iron rod of about an inch in diameter.

[@trottermalone379]

Thank you for this short peek into the closing days of that simpler time.

[@denisiwaszczuk1176]

Well done thank you.

[@steveschwartz6138]

What a great life.

[@johnmay23]

anyone know anything about the small sailing ships that traded between Geelong and Tasmania..around 1954/55 ??

[@glengrant3884]

SHINE BRIGHT GARRY💥🙌💪

[@velocity9828]

😂 "He was a devout commo...well he wasn't so communistic when you were working for him!"