Queenscliff Mariitme Weekend
A host of maritime events on offer this monthThe Queenscliff (Vic) Maritime Weekend is coming up on March 28-30.
Focal points of the weekend will be the Queenscliffe Maritime Museum and the races held for the Couta boats and yachts. Visiting yachts are welcome to enter and, although the racing can be taken seriously, there is certainly a fun and social feel to the weekend.
For the uninitiated, there is also a race called the ‘Race the Ferry’ where participants try and outrun the Sorrento-Queenscliff ferry from the Pope’s Eye to just off The Cut at Queenscliff (what could possibly go wrong there?).
The races are a great spectacle from the shore, where a visit to the museum is highly recommended. Highlights include the restored lifeboat Queenscliffe, model ships, shipwreck artefacts, a hydrographic model of The Rip (the notorious entrance to Port Phillip), the history of the Port Phillip Sea Pilots, and heaps more.
In other Queenscliffe Maritime Museum news, journalist Greg Wane has recently completed editing the 70th edition of The Dog Watch, the annual publication of the Shiplovers’ Society of Victoria. All 70 editions of the publications are available for viewing in the Museum’s excellent library.
Greg Wane has also written a book called Aground in the Rip which tells the story of the 1949 grounding of the coastal freighter SS Time. The wreck was attended by the Queenscliff lifeboat crews and remained as a local feature and tourist attraction for some time during the 1950s.
More details of the Weekend are available at www.ssbc.com.au and at http://www.maritimequeenscliffe.org.au
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