The Ferries
The “Amelia K” is the main ferry and performs the majority of the scheduled services.
She was purpose built by the previous owner Mr. Jack Kirkpatrick in 1995 as a dedicated vessel for this service.
Constructed in aluminium and surveyed to carry 65 passengers she is fuel efficient and rugged. Known by the locals as the “tin can”, the “Kettle” or the “Ferrari” she does the regular school run from Scotland Island and the Western Foreshores to Newport School.
The “Curlew” is the main support vessel and performs the scheduled runs while the Amelia K covers the student service or when it is undergoing maintenance,
She is of timber construction and built in 1922.
She is surveyed to carry 57 passengers and has proved highly reliable and efficient to operate. She is loved by the locals, and has a back deck where commuters can sit and chat on their way home in the summer evenings.
The Curlew was originally known as the “Gloria” and has operated as a banana boat on the Hawkesbury River. Her history is not well known but it is believed that a larger propeller was added in the 1960’s with a longer stern so that she could compete in the “Ferry Wars”. The story goes that the residents of the area set up another Ferry Service in completion and that whichever Ferry got to the wharf first would get the fares. The story also tells of railway tracks being used as battering rams.
The “Elvina” operates as a backup vessel in order to maintain the integrity of the schedule. She is of timber construction and is a classic ferry and surveyed to carry 27 passengers. She is believed to have been built in 1928 by Goddards of Palm Beach and was originally called the “Falcon”. In the 1940s she was bought by the Port Jackson and Manly Steamship Company.
Ferry Services around this time where quite basic, being mainly tourist trips around Pittwater. In 1934-4 the Port Jackson Company purchased the controversial “Currawong” site and added this to its Ferry Service.
During the war it is believed that the Falcon took troops to the gun emplacements located on West Head.
It is thought that the Falcon was purchased by E.H. Caldwell of Church Point in December 1951and her name changed to the Elvina after one of the bays serviced by the Church Point Ferry Service in Pittwater. It is likely that this was when the Church Point Ferry Service was started under this existing trading name. | 
