Bridport Football Club Function Centre
The fringe of the Tassie Scallop Fiesta will kick-off again with the Mariners’ Muse story-
telling session on Friday 26 July 2024.
A panel of four diverse speakers has been assembled to relate their tales of involvement
with the sea.
The Muse this year will be held at the Bridport Footy clubrooms, taking advantage of the big
screen, but will follow the tried-and-true formula for the popular event – a welcoming
scallop taster a couple of presentations, some food served in an intermission, then another
two speakers and an open forum to wind things up.
You can listen to Adelaide businessman David Harris, who came to Bridport to look at a boat
and went home owner of the whole ferry operation.
Creagh Dixon will tell us of his exploits circumnavigating Tasmania in the replica of George
Bass and Matthew Flinders’ sloop Norfolk.
Maritime Safety Authority officer Claire Cunningham will share some of her life on the water
at work and play.
And Mike Stevens is bound to extoll the virtues of a recreational fishing life, having a spent a
lifetime studying the subject.
The Speakers
David Harris
Adelaide-based businessman who came to Bridport to look at a boat and ended up buying a
ferry business, but he’ll talk mainly about his other interests in sailing his home-built
catamaran particularly a return voyage from Hong Kong, at one point being chased by
pirates.
Creagh Dixon
Now one of the volunteer custodians of the replica sloop Norfolk at George Town’s Bass and
Flinders Maritime Museum, he was also in the crew that re-enacted the circumnavigation of
Van Diemen’s Land 200 years on from the original in 1798.
Claire Cunningham
Tasmanian liaison officer with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority is her day-to-day
job, but she has always lived for the sea. A multiple Sydney to Hobart race sailor, Claire also
enjoys diving and generally messing around in boats.
Mike Stevens
Recreational fisherman, retailer, publisher, broadcaster and advocate for the noble art of
angling. He has a long association with several representative and lobby groups like Anglers’
Alliance, of which he was inaugural chair and TARfish. As part of his commitment to
promotion fishing he helped initiate Take a kid fishing day.
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Bar opens at 5:30 pm