Messina was not the usual boat for such a venture. Powered by diesel and built in the sixties of carvel jarrah, it had a varied career as a crayfishing boat before becoming a home as well as an obsession.

Messina News is the tale of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Though primarily an account of a sea voyage through the isolated north, it is also a human story of triumph over adversity, determination, love and loss.

Based on the humorous and numerous newsletters sent home to family and friends during the trip, Messina News also contains entertaining comparisons with the experiences of early mariners such as King, Flinders and Cook, who sailed the same seas. Interwoven historical research and oral history brings life to out of the way places such as Norwegian Bay Whaling Station, Broome, and Port Essington, making the book absorbing and entertaining reading for the mariner and landlubber alike.

All Hesperian Press books are printed on quality paper and will not discolour with age.  They are section sewn, the pages will not drop out and the binding will not crack.  This book is made to last.