Jack From Bluff

Author(s): Ross Cantrick

Nautical | NZ - Biography

Jack from Bluff is the story of a New Zealand fisherman whose career
spans over 70 years, of blue codding, crayfishing and tuna fishing. Jack
(Jackie) Cantrick was born on Stewart island and brought up in The Bluff.
In 1947, as a 15 year old, he skippered his first fishing boat at Bluff and
as an 86-year-old skipper, living in Nelson with his own boat the
President Kennedy, a well known New Zealand fishing vessel, he was still
fishing. This could well be the story of New Zealand’s oldest fisherman as
well as the country’s youngest and oldest skipper of an inshore fishing
boat.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780473525880
  • : Anchor Print Ltd.
  • : February 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ross Cantrick