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Length: 6.85m, Beam: 2.7m, Draft: 0.6m 
Propulsion: shaft drive propeller
Engine
: 15hp twin cyl Yanmar diesel
Construction
: timber carvel hull and timber cabin
Owner:  Chris Avery, Raymond Island Vic.
 
Built in 1937 at Mallacoota for Mrs Mattsson, proprietor of Gypsy Point Hotel, Gypsy Point near Genoa.  Built by Ray Kiernan.  Purpose built for a tourist day boat for the Mallacoota Inlet and Genoa River.  Owned by the Hotel for about 7 years before sold and used as a barracouta fishing boat at Eden, NSW.  Purchased by Rod Pheeney and used as a fishing boat at Mallacoota.
 
Sold to Wilsons at Tamboon Inlet and used for seine net fishing.  Sold and used at Lakes Entrance as a fishing boat and water taxi.  A day boat at Metung.  Purchased in 1998 by Irene Bould of Raymond Island and refitted by Andrew Bould and Robert Ashworth Marine Services.  Nicknamed 'Chugga'.