Ive only stumbled on it once......somewhere in the forums....it's the photo/drawing of the very early big big land yachts on the English beaches in the 1800's, directions would be appreciated .....cheeers......Joe

you might be thinking of the Dutch yacht in the 1500's.
There area few photos f big European stuff in the 50,s
At Lefroy we only date back as far as 1898

giddday land.y, how's all you westerners things slowing down a bit in your area you got them sails finished yet A mans work....... cheers..Joe

This the above bloke started my affliction to Kartin he was called Bob Handley and hailed from Sydney town, wa-what is considered the rough side now. Returned digger who was buggered up with arthu-ritis poor bugger decided to go for broke and collared himself a bricky,s barra
Given the OK from the doc , he set out and pushed all the way up to Cairns , then out and across to the Isa. onward up and ova the Barkly and beyond to Darwin .
Resting up for a bit he decided that he hadn't had enough, so he high tailed it down thru the centre And it was just south of there where i first met he, sleeping in a run off drain somewhere south of Coober Peedee. .
I think the photo was taken about there but not by me. WE just enjoyed a handshake and a bit of a yabba as real blokes doo . Think i may have given he a Darwin Stubby from my stock, just to keep the boogymen away at night Note the depth of the corrigatars
I admired his tanasity and made a mental note to give that a go some day, but go a little up market, use a bit of ally and it must have-a-sail
Anyways we parted company and he plodded on to Pawd Agusta, i to the Kimbelly.
Over the next coupla years we met again many times. He walked west across the paddok to the end of the earth [Perth], rested again then thru the sth west he went, trecking back across the nulla-plane
To finish off he wandered down to Adel-laid on to the back door of Australia,
Melborne then finally up the Hume back into Sydney.
In all it took he about six years, considerable amounts of shoe leather, some say as many as twenty pair-o-boots, and sadly maybe eight or nine dogs He did enjoy life and we met many times as i clocked up some interstate mileage in a previous life.
A couple of years after he got back to Sydney he took the hobnails off for the last time, I think he rests at Rookwood, but could be corrected on that.
Anyone who knows some more detail to this story , I would like to hear from
also anyone know where there are any or many more of those early 1800's landyatchy photos, drawings, paintings, etchings I'm feeling inspired, he,s feeling