26th March 2018
This morning the ketch Tullyvallin was moored near the Currambene Creek rivermouth. The ketch tried to enter the river the day before but ran aground on the shallow sand spit at the entrance requiring the Coastal Patrol to pull the vessel free.
She was designed by the famous yacht design innovator Nathanael Greene Herreschoff, and built in 1992/1996 near Ballina. The Tullyvallin is a beautifully built Spotted gum timber vessel. She left Sydney on Friday 23rd and is on her way to Eden.
In the 1900's ketches were used extensively for shipping cargo between ports right around the coastline of Australia. Jervis Bay was a safe harbour for these hard-working little yachts which punched well above their weight when it came to travelling across the open ocean often laden with heavy loads. Here are just a few examples of Ketches using Jervis Bay for shelter in unfavourable conditions around 1879, There are many more.
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