Complex sentence: Born in the coastal town of Newcastle on the 19 March 1936 in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, he left school at age 14 to pursue a locomotive mechanic's apprenticeship but soon found his attention turning to sailboats.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in the coastal town of Newcastle on the 19 March 1936 in the Hunter Region of New South Wales. He left school at age 14 to pursue a locomotive mechanic's apprenticeship but soon found his attention turning to sailboats.