Earnslaw ready to depart Queenstown with some deck cargo



Skipper preparing windlass and deckhand readying capstan



Stokers helping land the cargo at Walter Peak station. February 2008. Photos: Alan Mitchell

TSS Earnslaw is a beautiful steamer that sails regularly through the summer season on Lake Wakatipu out of Queenstown, New Zealand. See http://www.zqn.co.nz/earnslaw/

Boomerang gets ready to land a shore party to see whether the disused floating restaurant might be of some use to the Fleet. October 2007. Photo : Alan Mitchell

Barry Jones using yet another of his inventive solutions to finish off grinding repaired section of John Oxley's rudder stock. Photo: David Logie