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Down To The Sea In Boats

While abalone fishing is the glamour fishing enterprise at Mallacoota, with its flash, high-powered boats and rich rewards, and while it is ‘developing about it some of the romance which is inevitable every time men go to sea, there is nothing quite as beautiful or romantic as one of the traditional fishing ketches.

The rigging and the smell develop the aura which has inspired all young people to dream of running away to sea.