It was the 1960s and Bruce Oehlman was happy spending his days navigating a busy Sydney Harbour at the helm of one of its fleet of workboats.
"There wouldn't be many people who don't like Sydney Harbour, and when you are getting paid to traverse it every now and then as a job, I liked it … I didn't see anybody that didn't like it," he said.
Mr Oehlman was employed by the Maritime Services Board and regularly skippered a wooden workboat and pilot tender, the Goolabah, and its sister ship, the Goniemah, which was used as the Harbour Master's launch.
