Terminal velocity
Aug 18, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY PETER WHITAKER
HIS TIME IN the Merchant Navy in the closing years of World War II sparked Peter Mounsey’s love of the ocean and a career with the North Coast Steam Ship Company, eventually as Chief Officer. But Peter had far wider ambitions than a life navigating thousand tonne freighters up the Richmond and Clarence Rivers.
On shore, Peter’s thrills were provided by an iridescent purple Harley-Davidson WLC – the civilian version of the WLA – and later, a brief affair with a BSA Sloper, both of which were cast aside when he married Lesley.
A ’round-the-world, four-year honeymoon aboard their
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