GRAHAM NEWLAND : A well navigated life

Written by his daughter Jan Newland, the book titled “Graham Newland – A well navigated life”  shows the hidden life of one of Australia’s greatest ocean racing navigators which was discovered in a box of scrapbooks.

When Graham Newland’s daughter inherited a box of old scrapbooks, she had no inkling of how rich her father’s life had been. Of course, Jan Newland knew about the two Sydney to Hobart victories her father had won when she was young, but the scrapbooks highlighted just how important Graham had been in making Australian yachts, not just contenders, but victors, on the international scene.
But Graham was also a quiet man, as happy tinkering in his engineering workshop as he was, sailing on Sydney Harbour. He wasn’t a man to blow his own trumpet. However, the accolades in newspaper clippings and correspondence outline the glory over a forty-year career had transfixed his daughter.

She found a sailor who had been toasted by the Duke of Edinburgh and partied with the Aga Khan.
Graham had raced with the who’s who of Australia’s golden age of racing. His skills were sought out by the great yacht designer, Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens from New York. Known colloquially as The Yacht Doctor, the boats Graham had tuned for success stand as a litany of that age; The very first Ragamuffin, Vittoria, Love & War, Stormy Petrel, Salacia II, Mark Twain, Queequeg to name just a few.

The scrapbooks highlighted just how important Graham had been in making Australian yachts, not just contenders, but victors, on the international scene

Author : Jan Newland

Paperback : 220 Pages
SKU: P3330

The Author:
Television producer Jan Newland, is the owner of the leading production house, Eden Media, based in Sydney. She has worked around the world and is something of an explorer herself having being one of the first non-Russians to travel the Trans-Siberian railway from Vladivostok to Moscow in 1971. She is also an accomplished competitive sailor and a stalwart of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron.