tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor

How many careers can one man have? How many times can one man cheat death?
 
Skilled as a fitter and turner, engineer, steam boiler and engine attendant, brewer, light aircraft manufacturer and medical researcher – Colin Kerby could be described as Australia’s most multi-skilled individual.
 
His parents held the lease for the St Kilda Pier kiosk at the start of World War II and in 1962, Col and his wife Judy took over the popular landmark known to Melbournians as Kerby’s Kiosk.
 
Col and his wife of more than fifty years, dancer Judy Lingard, continue to make their home aboard Ooroo, the yacht they designed and built themselves.
 
Jan Mitchell has meticulously recorded the humourous anecdotes of Colin Kerby’s remarkable life and spun them into a fast-paced read. The book is funny and compulsively likeable - as is the man himself.