Australians love having fun in the sun and a Mackay business is dedicated to ensuring that they do it safely.
Terri Thompson started the Dirty Oar, a line of sun-safe outdoor apparel, after she was diagnosed with skin cancer in early 2021, not long after having her first daughter.
“I was operated on twice as they didn’t get it all the first time,” she said.
“It was really hard.
“Having a newborn, being up all hours of the night, my husband had to take time off work to help me out.
“It was a stressful time.”
Around six months later, Terri had a lightbulb moment.
“We wanted to come up with something that could help people and educate people in sun safety, so we came up with family friendly, sun safe fishing shirts,” she said.
“We want to help people not have to go through what I went through.”
The Dirty Oar offers a wide variety of cool and colourful fishing shirts for blokes, ladies and the littlies.
Stickers, hats and stubby coolers are also available, and you can even have custom fishing apparel made to commemorate that mammoth trip to the cape or dress your staff in style.
“It’s fishing apparel but it’s family friendly sun safe apparel, perfect for going camping or trips to the Cape, things like that,” Terri said.
While the business is run predominantly online, Terri will personally deliver throughout Mackay free of charge.
Not only is the Dirty Oar keeping the people of Mackay, Queensland and Australia sun safe, a portion of every sale also gets donated to Skin Cancer Australia.
“I feel we are so blessed to have this opportunity to help others,” Terri said.
Terri says one of the best parts of being a woman in business is being her own boss and having more time to spend with her family.
They’re an outdoors family, thriving when they’re fishing, camping and boating, their Dirty Oar shirts keeping protected from the sun for years to come.
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