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 tuna clipper from the 1950s, writes Ross Haldane, President of the Tacoma Preservation Society.
