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Tacoma returns to Port Fairy

TACOMA returns to Port Fairy – almost! 27th April 2011 The historically significant 84 ft wooden tuna clipper MFV Tacoma recently attempted to return to Port Fairy, sixty years after it was launched but poor weather and rising seas made the task too difficult. The Tacoma was built by brothers Bill, Alan and Hughie Haldane

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Sixty Years Later

Sixty Years Later Moyne Gazette, April 2011 The 84 foot motor fishing vessel, Tacoma, is expected to arrive at Port Fairy on Friday or Saturday, February 18/19. This will be the first visit to the port by the vessel since it was launched in the Moyne on November 5, 1951. The Tacoma will be en

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