Meeting, 27 September 2022 @ 7.30pm

Bruce Gooley will speak on the topic of ‘Men and Ships Driven by the Wind‘ at our September meeting.

Bruce is a graduate of Melbourne University and a researcher, presenter and self-published author with a special interest in maritime history. He is a volunteer tutor at the Hawthorn University of the Third Age (U3A). He has presented over 120 one and a half hour illustrated maritime history talks there, and has also presented to Provis and Historical Societies, and has documented these talks in book format. 

Bruce was a member of the Mornington Yacht Club for more than 50 years and owned and raced yachts in Port Phillip Bay, and Bass Strait, and has crewed on yachts racing to Vanuatu and around the State of Hawaii and cruising in the Beagle Channel. 

He is also a member of the Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network and he has presented several papers to them.

The Port Melbourne Historical Society meet at 7.30pm on the fourth Tuesday each month bar December in the Council Chamber of the first floor of Port Melbourne Town Hall^# and via Zoom.

^# Access via lift or stairs