The South Passage

she was built on the slipway in breakfast Creek in Brisbane by Percy Tripp kane' in 1952 for mr. Frank Jarvis when built she was powered by a GM 671 but today she sports a gardener 6 XL diesel [Applause] [Music] she is a story but named after the South passage bar which was once the main entrance for shipping from the South Pacific Ocean into Moreton Bay the bar is located between the two sand islands Morton to the north and North Stradbroke to the south Frank Jarvis married a man named Frank days daughter days gun which is just inside the South passage bar was named after Frank day it's thought that the family's connection to the locale influenced the choice of the South passengers handsome name [Music] her cabin saw it's an interior fit out her and silky ugh the South passage measures 50 feet long she has a beam of 13 feet and 4 inches draft of 4 feet and 6 inches Akil and below water line planking are all in spotted gun and her top sides are made of her pine [Music] [Music] the highlights are appropriately colored Moreton Bay mustard [Music] the history is a benefit in 1963 she acted as a special escort to the Royal Yacht Britannia on the Queen's official visit to Brisbane in 1970 she acted as radio relationship for the Brisbane to Gloucester in your trace the most notorious escapade however occurred in 1988 in 1986 the South passage found herself in Townsville where she was purchased by two men from Sydney hewed Dylan Edwards and his brother Warren according to the Australian Federal Police at some stage in 1987 and donkey train traveled from Pakistan to India that donkey train carried 1.13 tonnes of hashish from India the hashish with an estimated then street value about ten million Australian dollars was loaded onto a luxury yacht the yacht was the lady be the catch registered to a company in the Channel Islands and manned by a German crew which included a do brewer who was a West German ship ride the lady be traveled from the Maldives down to madding in Papua New Guinea and then on to North Queensland while on this voyage however the Australian Federal Police received an anonymous tip off as to her cargo further when Brewer flew into Brisbane on 22 December 1987 police covertly searched his luggage and found a child of a Whitsunday Island region which had markings on the narrow inlet on 6 January 1988 the South passage with Dylan and born at woods aboard moored in the Nara Inlet she was followed in by the Layton V at 5:50 a.m. on the morning of 8 January the lady be weighed anchor and police moved in they discovered 59 vilasa bags each weighing about 5 kilograms and filled with hashish in the trunk cabin of the South passage together with about 20 jerry cans of diesel after a trial Dylan Edwards was sentenced to nine and a half years in jail or born the sims to 8 years to South passage found herself confiscated by the Australian Customs Service and was sold by ten to a year and a half later with the exception of the Vaughn's the South passengers have been lucky with her owners who have spared no expense in her up kid she still resides on Moreton Bay in the Lee of a namesake bar [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: Timber boat;, wooden boat, moreton bay, moreton bay cruiser, Tripcony, Percy Tripcony, Simon Paroz, South Passage, South Passage Bar, Frank Day, Day's Gutter, Days Gutter, Frank Jervis, Breakfast Creek, Breakfast Creek Boat Club, Gardner, Gardner Engine, Gardner 6XL

Id: N2aFp8lLK24

Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 04 2020