Landfall survives savage strait

Mike Strong, of Sydney, with his pride and joy -- the famous old yacht Landfall. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

ONE of Tasmania's most famous yachts is back in town but only after a struggle to get it home.

Owner Mike Strong said his beloved Landfall survived wild seas from Sydney. It hit something in Bass Strait and started taking on a lot of water.

"I have sailed Landfall along the east coast of Australia but Bass Strait is a different beast," Strong said.

"We came down with the yacht race fleet but stopped at Eden.

"We were determined to get here so we set out again.

"We smashed into some unknown object. There were terrible thumps."

Now Landfall, built at Percy Coverdale's Battery Point shipyard in the mid 1930s, is within sight of its birthplace, on a cradle at the Royal Tasmanian Yacht Club, awaiting repairs. It is in exactly the same spot Strong saw it for the first time when he bought it 20 years ago.

If the repairs go well, it is set to take part in next month's Australian Wooden Boat Festival and a much-anticipated match race with its Hobart sister, Sirocco.

philip.heyward@news.com.au

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