Rowan Ramsay MP supports Tacoma Marina berth Port Lincoln Times, 22nd February 2017 A Fisherman’s Memorial Promenade and Passenger Terminal is being planned as part of a community marina facility for Lincoln Cove at Port Lincoln. The Tacoma Preservation Society (TPS) is making application to the Building Better Regions Fund under the Infrastructure Projects Stream […]
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Pontoon space should be for all Port Lincoln Times, 17th January 2017 THE Port Lincoln City Council will ask the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure for a three month extension to the closing date of proposal requests, due on January 31, for the waterway next to the Marina Hotel. In December last year the department issued a request
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Annual Taylor’s Island wool clip run by MVF Tacoma Taylor’s & Tacoma, 21st November 2016 MFV Tacoma: 84ft, launched 1951 at Pt Fairy, Victoria. A gracious wooden boat on it’s annual wool clip run. VIEW FULL GALLERY
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MFV Tacoma Plan Approved November 15th 2016 At last nights Port Lincoln Council DAP meeting, the Tacoma Preservation Society’s (TPS) application to build a pontoon structure within the Lincoln Cove Marina was approved. “It’s taken a lot of effort and input from a number of people, organisations and government departments and we are delighted that
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Preserving Tacoma, a new life for a historic tuna boat Signals Quarterly, Sept/Oct/Nov 2016 Thousands of wooden fishing boats are slowly rotting in a quiet grave – a backyard, a muddy mangrove swamp or a lonely boatyard. One vessel saved from this fate by a group of volunteers is the MFV Tacoma, a South Australian
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Tacoma program raises $15,000 Port Lincoln Times, 21st July 2016 MORE than $15,000 has been raised for local charities over the past three years through the Tacoma Preservation Society’s charity program. Secretary Leonie Sawyer said groups that had benefited from the program included Meals on Wheels, the National Servicemen’s Association, the Royal Flying Doctor Service,
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MVF Tacoma’s JANGAARD DOCK June 3rd 2016 The Tacoma Preservation Society’s (TPS) development application for its proposed marina berth has achieved another milestone in its endeavours to gain access to the Fisherman’s Memorial site in the Marina. Following a very productive face-to-face meeting with a number of personnel from the Department of Planning, Transport and
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JANGAARD DOCK – MFV Tacoma’s proposed new home 20th May 2016 The Tacoma Preservation Society (TPS) has made a development application to the Port Lincoln Council to install a new pontoon structure, adjacent to the Lincoln Cove Marina Fisherman’s Memorial. If successful, the pontoon will be the new home for the historic MFV Tacoma, the
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MFV Tacoma applies for new home 11th April 2016 The Tacoma Preservation Society (TPS) has made a development application to the Port Lincoln Council to install a new pontoon structure adjacent to the Lincoln Cove Marina Fisherman’s Memorial. The application, if approved, will open up the possibility for the TPS gaining a lease of the
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Young Men and the Sea Great Ocean Quarterly, 2014 Stroll the boardwalk of any fishing hamlet and it’s hard not to reflect on past times: boats arriving with salty fishermen, rusty hooks and fish scales drying in the sun. Canvas drumming in the wind, bending to the heavy air of southern chill; wet, cold salt
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