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Sailing Couta Boats

Come and have a sail with me onboard this traditional Fishing boat called a Couta boat. We're sailing out of Queenscliff, which is a small town on the Bellarine Peninsula, south of Melbourne, in Victoria Australia. We are south of Swan Bay at the entrance to the calm, sometimes scary, Port Phillip Bay. The tides are huuuge here as the vast ocean of the Bass Strait tries to fill up the bay, and suck it back out again through a narrow bottle neck. They call it "The Rip", and it literally steps up in volume when the tide is running. These couta boats were fishing boats back in the day, between 1870 and 1930, and they would sail through this treacherous entrance, most heading out before dawn to catch fish! As soon as these incredibly seaworthy boats had met their quota of barracouta, the brave fishermen raced back to port as fast as they could, because the first boat back got the best prices! That's how these fishing boats became racing boats!