Larry beats the odds to get back on the water

Updated November 19 2012 - 7:29am, first published 12:00am
Restoring life: Larry Pullen lauching his restored boat Trusan, which was built in 1967, at the Martime Museum boatyard on the Hastings River.
Restoring life: Larry Pullen lauching his restored boat Trusan, which was built in 1967, at the Martime Museum boatyard on the Hastings River.
Restoring life: Larry Pullen lauching his restored boat Trusan, which was built in 1967, at the Martime Museum boatyard on the Hastings River.
Restoring life: Larry Pullen lauching his restored boat Trusan, which was built in 1967, at the Martime Museum boatyard on the Hastings River.
Larry Pullen looks on at the lauching his restored boat TRUSAN which was biult in 1948 in Western Australia at the Martime Museum boatyard at Hibbard with Dave McManus who did most of the work on the boat guidding the boat into the water
Larry Pullen looks on at the lauching his restored boat TRUSAN which was biult in 1948 in Western Australia at the Martime Museum boatyard at Hibbard with Dave McManus who did most of the work on the boat guidding the boat into the water
Larry Pullen in tender guidding his retored boat into the water
Larry Pullen in tender guidding his retored boat into the water

JUST six months ago, dementia sufferer Larry Pullen passed each day watching the comings and goings of the Hastings River on a chair at the front of his house.

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