Hull toys Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty Ltd

Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty Ltd built 1

timbers soft with age

producing vessels ranging from leisure cruisers to wartime naval craft

Sunlight cuts through the deteriorating roof of Malthouse One West

serving a coal town that once held over 100

Hull toys Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty LtdA weathered hull sits within the former Lars Halvorsen Sons Pty Ltd Boatyard at Putney, its surface stripped back to rust and peeling paint. The yard operated on the Parramatta River from 1939, producing over 250 military vessels during the Second World War and later launching Gretel, Australia's first America's Cup challenger, in 1962. Part of the Halvorsen's Boat Yard series.