Tom Ohman our 1956 Olympic canoeist was no doubt bemused by this beast! What on earth has he discovered? ……………….read on to find out.
Answer: The Ballarat Council’s ‘Wendouree Submarine’ used to remove weed from Lake Wendouree.
History, we are told, has the great capacity to repeat itself. Here are two FCC tales to prove this very point!
Rummaging through Arthur Howard’s old scrapbook of newspaper cuttings relating to canoeing, we came across this “classic” from the POST that verifies our earlier snippet on this willow-covered enterprise.
As reported by Yvonne Wilson April 30, 1953.
We all consider that our era is a time of the most intense sporting competitiveness.
Dredging the newspapers of old through TROVE would suggest that this is not the case (sandpaper ball-tampering aside!) and a FCC boat is evidence of this.
Enjoying your History Snippets?
What have you been doing this January?
Given the article that surfaced at our Legends Lunch in November, perhaps this should be titled “What you should have been doing this month”!
Tuesday 20th November found twenty Club Legends from the 50s & 60s gathered together by our two living Life Members, Marg Buck and Jonathon Mayne, to share a lunch to re-connect and unearth old memories to aid our Centenary History Group broaden our knowledge of the Club from a very different
