Five generations on, this little red tinny is still going strong for a devoted fishing family

It may not be very pretty, but for five generations the one family has learnt to fish in the “little red tinny”.

Ian Townsend’s grandfather took possession of the little runabout and now he is teaching his seven-year-old grandson how to fish in it.

Back in the era when Robert Menzies was the Australian Prime Minister, Darwin was declared a city and Donald Bradman had only just retired from cricket, the small boat came into the Townsend family…