Blue Boat House
Cobalt-blue timber boatshed on tidal pylons, rebuilt by one family after a near-demolition.
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This guide to the Blue Boat House in Crawley, on Perth's Swan River, follows one small timber shed's uneasy relationship with the water it sits in, from a twenty twenty storm that put its jetty underwater to the Nattrass family's decades-long fight to keep the place standing at all. You'll hear how a five-pound purchase, a demolition threat, and an unlikely paint suggestion shaped its fate. Best heard standing right at the water's edge, watching the tide work at the pylons below you.
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