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Lancewood is a website management business based in Melbourne. I provide design, domain-name and hosting services, and specialise in Internet technology and nautical websites. I also write maritime history books.

Each hand-crafted Lancewood website is individually designed for speed and communication, and logically laid out to showcase ideas, activities and products – see Gallery1 and Gallery2. Please contact me for further information.

Internet and IPv6 sites

Nautical and other sites

Maritime Books

Book cover ALAN VILLERS: Voyager of the Winds
Kate Lance, National Maritime Museum, 2009.

Australian journalist Alan Villiers sailed on the last great commercial windjammers between the wars, when his writings and images made him famous. This biography, drawn from his personal diaries, explores the complex man who also sailed with Arab traders, commanded Allied landing ships, and inspired modern sail-training and ship-preservation efforts.
Winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award, October 2009.
Book cover REDBILL: From Pearls to Peace
Kate Lance, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2004

REDBILL is the true story of a wooden boat's voyage through a century of history, from pearling to the Pacific War, from Greenpeace actions to a devastating cyclone.
Images, introduction, more ...

Winner of Western Australian Premier's Book Award 2004 for Non-Fiction