2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival HOBART

Wooden Boats Afloat Their Stories

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 1 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Page 2 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Able Mabel

Name: Able Mabel Boat Owner: Robert Wallis Builder: Roger Harwood Designer: Holman & Pye Description: Able Mabel has been to every wooden boat festival since launched by renowned local boat builder Roger Harwood in 1996. It is almost entirely Huon Pine and was built as a comfortable boat for his family. It is a typical english 4 tonne 1960’s design as a Twister class which had a very successful racing record. There are not many of this class in Australia and she has been recognised as a Twister by travelling Englishmen. The Holman and Pye design evolved as a larger version of the Danish folk boat design. We would love to continue her tradition of attending every wooden boat festival. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Masthead Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1996

Admiral

Name: Admiral Boat Owner: Admiral Restoration Group Builder: Thomas Morland Designer: Thomas Morland Description: Australia’s oldest commercial vessel began her working life in Hobart 150 years ago, taking passengers to the eastern shore for picnics. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Rowing Ferry State: Tasmania Built: 1865

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 3 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Alcheringa

Name: Alcher inga Boat Owner : Peter Wes ter n & Mar k Chapman Builder : I an Snell, Peter Wes ter n & Mar k Chapman Des igner : Peter Brady Des cr iption: Us ing vacuum moulding, s tr ip planking and plywood f r aming and bulkheads Alcher inga was built by the owner s with her s is ter , Kiella, in a f ar m s hed over a per iod of f our and a half year s . The f itout ar r ived as a tr uckload of r ough s awn Silky Oak f r om which all mouldings and f itout timber s wer e cr eated. Alcher inga has done s ignif icant blue water voyaging ar ound Victor ia, Tas mania, South Aus tr alia and New s outh Wales .Us ed extens ively f or f is hing and cr uis ing s he can s leep 8 and is commonly cr ewed with f ive or s ix. Her f ir s t voyage was a cir cumnavigation of Tas mania. The two boats s how what can be achieved by a s mall cooper ative team us ing s kills gained over a lif etime of mucking ar ound in boats and building them. Backgr ound of the builder s ar e teaching, machiner y s ales and maintenance and f ar ming. LOD f eet: 43 Hull Timber : Paulonia Type of Boat: Fis hing cr uis er State: Victor ia Built: 2007

Alicia

Name: Alicia Boat Owner: Chris Crerar Designer: Charles Houstein Description: Alicia is a classic example of a working Tamar couta boat from the early 20th Century. Fully restored and gaff rigged, with a Simplex engine. Magic! Restored by John Philp LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Couta Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1930

Page 4 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Altura

Name: Altura Boat Owner: Ian Gough Builder: Viv Innes Designer: Viv Innes Description: A much admired and loved vessel with a wonderful document history. Sailed in the 100 years Royal Hobart Regatta and many events before and since. Represented the Cygnet Sailing Club in A Class events against the RYCT representatives. In 1969 the original owner builder/designer Viv Innes sold the Altura to the Weidenhoffer Family who raced the Altura in A class events for many years. The current owner (Ian Gough) purchased Altura in 1984 and raced in Vintage Boat Club events until 2001. During a race from Bellerive to Kettering in the late 1990’s Altrura gained line honours in winds recorded at over 70 knots. That event was written in Classic Boat magazine published in England. In previous Festivals Altura attracted great public Interest. LOD feet: 42Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Gaff Rigged Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1923

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Aotea

Name: Aotea Boat Owner: Annie Venables Builder: Clement Blunt Designer: William Fife 3rd Description: Aotea was built at Williamstown, Victoria in 1900 by the Nelson Place boat builder, Clement Blunt, to a design by the famous Scottish naval architect William Fife Jr. Aotea was built as a lug rigged yawl for use on Port Phillip Bay. In her first race at the Geelong Regatta on New Years Day 1901 she was dismasted and was later re-rigged as a sloop. Aotea was not entirely successful under that rig either and before the 1901 yachting season was over, she was re-rigged as a cutter with a pole mast and a jack yard. This improved her performance and she was the fourth most successful competitor in Royal Yacht Club of Victoria events for seasons ending in 1902, 1903 and 1905 and third in 1904. Owner A C Barber was later a well known Sydney-based naval architect. In 1907, Hobart clerk A. V. Windsor purchased Aotea. Under his ownership Aotea won the cruisers race at the Hobart regatta three years in a row: 1908, 1909 and 1910, sailed by Frederick Turner on all 3 occasions. She led the fleet round Cape Bruny in the 1908 100 Mile Ocean Race (now called Bruny Island race) but broke her gaff. In 1951, with her days as a first class racer behind her, Aotea’s then owner Stan Davidson of the Bellerive Yacht Club had her topsides built up at Cuthbertson’s Yards at Montagu Bay to make her more comfortable for inshore cruising. Unlike many such conversions it was tastefully done and although it completely altered her character she re-emerged as an elegant craft, her rakish lines set off by oval port holes along her raised hurricane deck. Steve Harvey converted her to a cutter rig with a roller- reefing headsail in 1973/74, making her suitable for single-handed sailing. Aotea, now owned by Port Cygnet Yacht Club member Annie Venables, continues to be loved, raced and sailed in the Huon Estuary and Channel some 118 years after she was built. She won the Noel Doepel Classic Yacht Trophy at Dover in 2017 for the first time, fitting as she used to belong to Noel, and then went back and won again in 2018 up against Varg and Exodus. She is looking particularly fine at the moment after many hours of scraping and painting and general maintenance in the last 18 months since Annie took her over. Annie Venables was taught to sail and given her love of classic boats by her late father, Tony Venables. She was probably even conceived on a classic boat whilst her parents honeymooned in the UK on the windfall yacht “Overlord”. She is one of a very small group (4!) of lady boat owners who own 100 year old wooden boats. LOD feet: 35 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Classic yacht State: Tasmania Built: 1900

Page 6 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Apollo

Name: Apollo Boat Owner: Alsion & Bruce Fyfe Builder: Pompei Designer: Pompei Description: We found Apollo on the hardstand at Queenscliff, she had been on a mooring and had partially sunk. The old Detroit engine was swamped and no longer working but had managed to leak oil right throughout her bilge and cabin. She was trucked to Kettering where her restoration began by two very enthusiastic owners. Our incentive was to see her entered in the Wooden Boat Festival 2015 sporting a new makeover. She was repowered with a 160hp Yanmar, completely rewired from 24v to 12v. The old chain steering that had rusted and no longer worked was replaced with a modern hydraulic steering. As her instruments had been badly weathered these were also replaced and where possible items of her era were used. She had to come out of the 60’s a bit, but as much as possible was retained. Lots of painting later and many late nights she was starting to look amazing. (We are biased). Built by Pompei Brothers of Mordialloc Creek for Jack Clarke, owner of G V Clarke Motors in Preston Vic. She was launched in 1969 hence her name Apollo. Jack had wanted to use her in Port Phillip Bay and beyond for a private fishing vessel which sadly he never got to enjoy before he died. She was taken to Noosa by Jack’s son for many years but was never used and began to deteriorate. Her history is extremely important to us and we have arranged to visit Joe Pompei in the coming weeks to discuss Apollo with him. His memory is astounding for a man in his 80’s and he could reel off all her details on the phone without any prompting. While researching her history we came across a photo of her on the Paynseville Wooden Boat Rally Facebook site. I asked the question if anyone knew of her, and within hours Bill Morley contacted me to share her history: Charles and Beverley Morley bought her from Jack’s son and moved her to Woongoolba where she was used for family trips to Sanctuary Cove and the Gold Coast. As Beverley and Charles have both passed away, their son, Bill Morley, was able to fill in many of these gaps and supply photos of her days with his family. She was a much loved part of the family as Bill’s words display; Hope this fills a gap, she’s an amazing boat, it was a religion for us every weekend in Southern Moreton Bay. Hopefully if we make the festival one year I can steal a tour off you. Having found two more of her owners, their words all resonate with Bill in the fact she was an amazing boat that they all loved immensely. We feel very lucky and honoured to be custodians of her now. We would love to be able to share her story and many photos with members of the public which is why we would love her to be considered to enter the AWBF. We would love to see many more Pompei boats in the festival and our dream would be for the surviving Pompei brother, Joe to be able to visit the festival and see his boats displayed that he and his brother crafted. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1969

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 7 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart April of Cygnet

Name: April of Cygnet Boat Owner: Gary Pritchard Builder: John Castle Designer: Lyle Hess Description: This boat was built locally but has sailed on the East Coast of Australia. It has undergone a major refit to include garboards, transom, cockpit, running rigging, standing rigging, cream sails, roller furler jib and instrumentation. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Bristol Channel Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1992

Argos of Sydney

Name: Argos of Sydney Boat Owner: Alan Gluyas Builder: Phil Heaney Designer: Phil Heaney Description: Argos of Sydney made a world circumnavigation under the original owners, Phil and Margaret Heaney in 2004-2012. LOD feet: 51 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Long Range Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 2004

Page 8 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Argus

Name: Argus Boat Owner: Michael & Sally Duke Builder: Searles Boatyard Designer: Searles Description: Like many vessels of her size and age, the Argus’s exact history is a combination of myth and guesstimation. It is believed that she was originally commissioned by BHP for service at Pt. Pirie. At some point though she found herself on the Murray. The previous owners, Tim and Ann Potter, themselves SA Wooden Boat Association identities, acquired her after Tim had assisted in a salvage operation to retrieve her from the bottom of the river near Walkers Flat. She had sunk after the refilling of the Murray Basin at the end of the drought which ravaged the river in the first decade of this century. Tim floated her again and she enjoyed many admiring glances as she putted, posing her pleasant proportions. Besotted also by her form, Sally and I purchased her in August 2013 and took immediately to this cathartic “slow-down” aspect of an otherwise hectic life style. We did regular “overnighters” between Murray Bridge and Mannum. We married a year later, embarking upon a most romantic honeymoon along the ancient waterway to Wakerie, not far (by land at least) to where we grew up in SA’s Riverland. After enjoying another Wooden Boat Festival in 2015, the Argus was on her homeward voyage back to Murray Bridge when Lake Alexandrina, fabled for her sudden and mischievous transformations from millpond to tumult, delaminated some fibreglass from her belly. Leaking, we headed for the nearest visible land. Fortuitously, our distress was noted by neighboring vessels who were able to follow behind and pick up jettisoning cargo until we managed reach the shores of Snake Island. High and dry on a low loader after salvage, Michael uttered those words which would embark on a labor of folley, sweat, money but ultimately of love; “You know what Sally?, Lets just fix everything!” And so it began in the boat yard of Duck Flat Wooden Boats in Mt Barker. Stripped down to nothing but hull,Pat and his crew turned her turtle where they splined and glassed her to the waterline. She had at some stage been converted to outboard propulsion so that had to go, a 10HP Nanni installed on hefty new Tas Oak bearers, the new heart donor. We took the empty caucus back to a long suffering friend’s farm shed where the construction of the new aft wheel house side decks and cowling commenced. An unforseen change of employment took us and the Argus to our new home in Kingston where the interior fitment commenced in view of the Derwent. Much of the timber work has been made with recycled Oregon shed frames and is now exposed through rich clear varnish. Her form now, still traditional, is much less work boat and more Gentlemen’s Cruiser. She retains many of her original Bronze fittings such as portholes, wheel and cleats and many more brass fittings have been purchased to pop against the fresh bright work. The waterways of Southern Tasmania are a brand new adventure for the Argus and us. We are aiming for a mid spring launch to Argus’s new home in Port Huon. Never predicted that! LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Gentleman’s Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1950

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 9 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Athena of Sydney

Name: Athena of Sydney Boat Owner: Phil & Margaret Heaney Builder: Phil Heaney Designer: Phil Heaney Description: Athena was built at our boat yard in Toronto, Lake Macquarie and took two years to build. I designed the hull along the lines of the Maine lobster boats on the North East coast of America, which we observed while cruising on our previous boat Argos a 50 ft long range cruise which we sailed around the world. We wanted a boat which would be more suited for coastal and river cruising and Athena has proved ideal for the purpose. To date we have traveled 4500 miles since launching LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Hoop Pine Type of Boat: Coastal cruiser State: New South Wales Built: 2016

Aurora

Name: Aurora Boat Owner: Drew Lark Builder: Unknown Designer: Richard Hartley Description: Aurora is a fine example of quality home-built craftsmanship. Hartley designs are famous the world over – and Hartley’s range of trailer-sailers have been popular in Australia, particularly the venerable TS16. Many people haven’t heard of the Hartley 24, the smallest of Hartley’s offshore capable yachts yet, unlike it’s smaller trailer-sailer cousins, the Hartley 24 design includes the option to be built in full fin keel, bilge keel or centreboard configuration. Aurora is a sturdy and simple vessel, built to withstand the rigours of coastal cruising and beyond. Her large steel centreplate keel is handled by an electric winch and conveniently tucks away in its centreboard case allowing the yacht to be put on a trailer and towed behind a four wheel drive. Aurora is my first cruising sailboat and I’ve been her proud owner since early 2018. The coming years are going to be filled with plenty of great adventure with my two children, as we explore Australia’s beautiful waterways in our beloved wooden boat. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: Australian Plywood Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1990

Page 10 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Bacarli

Name: Bacarli Boat Owner: Brian and Vivien Tonkin Builder: Blunts Shipyard. Designer: Unknown Description: Owned and sailed by the Tonkin Family, Adelaide, SA. Sailed in 1988 Tall Ships Race Hobart to Sydney. LOD feet: 57 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: ketch State: South Australia Built: 1974

Barcarolle

Name: Barcarolle Boat Owner: Julian & Abi Freeman Builder: Hugh Morris Designer: Hugh Morris Description: The Barcarolle was designed and built in 1974 by well known boat builder Hugh Morris as his personal vessel. LOD feet: 48 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1974

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 11 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Benito

Name: Benito Boat Owner: Will and Sally Baillieu Builder: Peter Kass – Johns Bay Boat Company Designer: Peter Kass Description: Benito is Hull N0. 62, built to order by Pete Kass of Johns Bay Boat Company, South Bristol Maine USA, for Will and Sally Baillieu of Cape Schanck Victoria. Local Maine Cedar was milled on site for the planking, and a White Oak log was brought from upstate for the backbone. Fastened with silicon bronze screws. The wheelhouse joinery and furniture is varnished African Sipo (Red Mahogany), and there is accommodation for six. Fridge, freezer, water maker and Maine style pot hauler with side davit. 6KVA Mase Genset. 240V, 24V and 12V systems. Instruments are SIMRAD Fully equipped with hot water, hydronic heating as well as a slow combustion wood stove below, separate shower and head. There is gas and electric cooking in the stainless steel galley. Benito’s wheelhouse was built longer for the purpose of cruising. Traditional down east Lobster Boats have a long and rich history, fishing the North Atlantic coast of America. The lobster men fit their boats out with great pride, for comfortable cruising with family when not engaged commercially. The boats often work in treacherous conditions including sea ice. Lobster Boats this size typically have 700-1000 HP motors, and every year there are Lobster Boat races held in various lobster ports along the NE coast of US. Benito was taken some 600 miles under its own power from South Bristol, Maine to Baltimore, Maryland, for shipment direct to Melbourne, Australia via Wilenius Whilemsen RoRo ship. The Baltimore trip was undertaken during a gap between Hurricanes Phillipe and Rina. Benito now resides at the southern end of Port Phillip, Victoria, and is used for fishing and family cruising around Bass Strait and Tasmania. Benito was featured in an article and o front cover of Wooden Boat Magazine No. 227 July/August 2012. LOD feet: 44 Hull Timber: Maine Cedar Type of Boat: Cruising Lobster Boat State: Victoria Built: 2011

Page 12 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Betty

Boat Owner: Peter Eblen Builder: Hackercraft Boat Company Designer: John Hacker Description: The Betty, a Hacker designed cruising hydroplane, 23 feet 6 inches in length, was imported from Detroit in 1927 by Napier Kiffin Birks, director of Adelaide Motors and heir to Charles Birks department stores. It is understood that Betty, with a speed of 32 miles an hour and the only one of its type in the state, was kept at his Goolwa residence, part of which is known as Birks Marina. She was quoted as being loaned to the Victor Harbor Nursing Association as a fundraiser at the 1928 Goolwa speedboat regatta. I understand that Betty’s next owner was Lou Leahy (The Leahy Hotel Group Murray Bridge and Adelaide). Betty was subsequently purchased from the widow (Mrs) F Leahy by Mr Ian Ramsay Manning of Glenelg North on 8th Sept 1960 for 200 pounds. Mr Manning is a dear mate of my late father George Eblen. In 1999 Ian gifted Betty to me. Whilst inspired, it took another three years of research, planning and shed building before I extracted Betty from her resting place. She was mostly buried under 40 years of junk and was damaged and partly fibre-glassed. During this time I did a TAFE course on wooden boat building where the teacher Mr Alan Marsh agreed to mentor me through the process of restoration. A year later the process began, dismantling individual sections, the port hull and frame repair or replacement where necessary. I replaced the broken stringers then the hull with three layers, two diagonal and one length ways with 4mm ply, followed by glassing, filling and fairing. The sides were a matter of removing and repairing the original timbers, thicknessing back to 5-7 mm then laying them over a primary layer of 4mm ply which lay over the original seam battens. The interior was mostly pre painted. Almost the entire brightwork came with the boat; the original motor, a Scripps F-6 100hp Gold cup was not suitable to reuse. The seating, steering wheel and windscreen needed replacing as well. Following a visit to Lake Tahoe Concours D’Elegance in 2009, some new contacts advised me on repowering and furnishing including photographs from which the missing items could be replicated. Mark Mason of New England Boat and Motor, New Hampshire is the master of Mahogany boats, in restoration, building, from engineering to the finished product and although a very busy man still provided essential advice, photographs, historical reference and technical assistance. Because of the desire to reuse as much original timber as possible to maintain authenticity, achieving a perfect stain was a most difficult process. The stain was sprayed then I applied numerous layers by hand using International Paints Awlwood, final coats sprayed. I am thrilled at the end result. Source “Nine Months Abroad” The Register (Adelaide) Page 10, 18th February 1928 LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Honduras Mahogany Type of Boat: Classic Runabout State: South Australia Built: 1927

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 13 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Bia 2

Name: Bia 2 Boat Owner: Dick & Maria Stiles Builder: DIck Stiles Designer: Andrew Wolstenholme Description: Bia 2 is based on a unique boat design created by Andrew Wolstenholme of Norfolk, England, for a special customer. This boat was called Polly. Subtle changes to the lines enabled Andrew to preserve the uniqueness of Polly while producing a copy of her for others to build and enjoy. During the lofting process, the builder of Bia 2, Dick Stiles, made further changes including the curving of the transom and the aft seat back. This was achieved with multiple marine ply laminates using the vacuum bagging process. The hull was fabricated from Khaya (Maghony) and Sitka Spruce laminates glued diagonally over a jig. The bulkheads, thwarts and seats were made from marine ply and then match boarded with Khaya laminate. The inwales and forward coaming were made from European Oak while the sole was constructed from Douglas Fir. The boat is bright finished internally and across the transom, while the hull is painted with two pack epoxy, white below the waterline and red above it. The original design called for a small diesel engine. Dick elected to power Bia 2 with an electric pod motor driven by a bank of Glass Mat batteries. This arrangement offers some five hours of cruising at about 60% power before a battery recharge is required. Greater endurance is possible if the batteries are depleted further. Dick made two spoon oars for the boat and rowlocks were fitted. She pulls well with the oarsman or oarswomen sitting on the midships thwarts. As steering is achieved by rudder and tiller, the coxswain can sit in the stern seat and watch the activity midships! A purpose made Bimini completes the extras added to the boat. Bia 2 is an ideal tender for a larger boat. She has good sea keeping abilities with her displacement hull and so she can handle open sea, estuary or river conditions equally well. LOD feet: 13 Hull Timber: Mahogany & Sitka Spruce Type of Boat: Power Boat State: South Australia Built: 2010

Page 14 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Bob

Name: Bob Boat Owner: Harry Diers Description: Inboard Stirling engines are becoming popular on the River Thames in England. They are novel and can be very quiet. The first I knew of this it was fitted in a boat called Robert. Mine is the first in Australia, so I called my boat Bob. Bob was built to test Stirling engines and to take my wife fishing. The design objective was a flat bottomed boat that my wife (who has balance problems) could get in and out of. The hull is extended behind the transom either side of the outboard to increase the buoyancy and to provide a step for entry when the stern is on the beach. Extended bollards (“molgogers” British tugs) can be placed in vertical rod holders to help balance when entering or moving around in the boat. They can also carry bunting. My granddaughter painted the sea gulls on the bow. I love watching seagulls fly. Our web master with the Stirling Engine Society in England has described my Stirling outboard as “The only known Stirling outboard”. All the others are inboard engines mainly because of their weight. “Stirling Engine Boats.com/ home page”. The engine has been a 20 year development project. LOD feet: 10 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Plywood dingy State: Tasmania Built: 2010

Bolero

Name: Bolero Boat Owner: Philip and Michelle Whistler Designer: John Alden Builder: Andy Engwirda Description: Constructed over 12 years after sourcing Huon Pine logs and milling in Burleigh Heads. Burmese Teak selected personally. Andy and Margaret Engwirda built and sailed Bolero around the world. Philip and Michelle purchased Bolero in 2004 and have sailed extensively on the east coast. Bolero has been at the RYCT since Jan 2017 and is hopefully here to stay. LOD feet: 55 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Huon Yawl State: Tasmania Built: 1985

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 15 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Boxer

Name: Boxer Boat Owner: Chris Tyquin Designer: Norman R Wright Builder: Jones McKinnon Regan and Eastgate Description: Designed originally for netting the banks of Moreton Bay with a crew of 2 or 3 using 16 foot oars when there wasn’t enough breeze and used for the odd weekend race with a crew of 10 to 12. Boxer is of significance to the maritime history of Moreton Bay and early Brisbane, in that she is the only boat of her type to exist. Boxer was built over 8 years under the watchful eye of Bill Wright (Norman’s grandson and head of Norman R Wright and Sons). She was launched in 2002 and is used for picnics, camping and racing. Her interior incorporates several discreetly placed creature comforts and mod cons including a drop leaf Mahogany dining table that seats six, ice boxes, toilet , double sink, lighting, stereo, a demountable galley, electronic navigation and bench sleeping for six. In racing configuration she can hoist over 1500 square feet of sail that includes gaff mainsail, topsail, spinnaker,balloon jib, ringtail (extends off the boom) and watersail (extends under the boom) . LOD feet: 23 Hull Timber: Australian Red Cedar Type of Boat: Gaff sloop State: Queensland Built: 2002

Britannia

Name: Britannia Boat Owner: Isabella Laughton-Clark Designer: Richard Davey Builder: Richard Davey Description: Originally built in 1898 on Dog Island, off Flinders Island, the gaff- cutter was designed to be used for carrying freight around the islands. The vessel was purchased in 1910 by the Davis family of Bruny Island, to be put into work fishing for scallops and couta in the Channel. Now owned by 5th generation Davis, Isabella Laughton-Clark, Britannia was fully restored in 2006-2008 by Terry Lean, the late Mike Seeney, Anne Laughton and Andrew Clark at their home in Kettering. The vessel now consists of not only New Zealand Kauri Pine, but Tasmanian timbers like Blackwood, Huon Pine and Celery Top Pine. It is used today for pleasure and weekend cruising. The vessel has changed from a double-ender to a counter-stern a number of times to suit the needs over the previous 120 years. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Pine Type of Boat: Gaff-Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1898

Page 16 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Canopus

Name: Canopus Boat Owner: Huw Griffiths Designer: unknown Builder: Horace Frimley Description: A late example of a traditional Bass Strait fishing boat, originally named Alison after the first owner’s daughter, used as a couta boat in the 40s and 50s. In the 70s renamed Canopus by her owner Robert Scott, and converted for coastal cruising. Listed in the book ‘Those That Survive’ by Graeme Broxam, pg. 62. Purchased in 2018 as a 50th birthday present. I would like to acknowledge the amazing effort of the previous owners, thanks for the good times and great fishing ahead! LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Converted Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1948

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 17 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Capella ll

Name: Capella ll Boat Owner: Byron Bennett Designer: John G Alden Builder: Smith & Taylor Description: John G Alden took a fancy to the name of a vanished spit of land, Cape Malabar, found on an old chart and felt the name would be fitting for a schooner he had designed and built for himself. This boat was first in a series of schooners named Malabar and based on the fisherman schooners of Gloucester, Maine, with internal ballast, beamy, low sided for easy handling of dories and cheap to build. He ordered a 41 1/2 foot schooner from C.A. Morse and Son of Thomaston, Maine before actually drawing the plans to design 155. The forward cabin trunk was kept short to allow for a dinghy on deck and no engine was installed as the designer had ‘better use for the room’. She had a bald headed self tending gaff rig including a gaff foresail for single handing. In 1923 she placed fourth in a fleet of 22 boats in the Newport to Bermuda race. In 1934 John Alden described her as the most interesting of the Malabars. (Source: ‘John G Alden and his yacht designs’ Carrick and Henderson 1995) Around 1966, on request, Alden designs modified the Malabar 1 design with the hull form remaining the same but with external ballast, an engine and the forward cabin trunk extended to give more headroom. The new plan number was designated 155-67. This boat was built as ‘Capella’, the builders own boat, by Misters Smith and Taylor alongside two others of identical hull form but fitted out as party boats, one for the local fire chief and the other for a local lawyer. There is no known record of the fate of the other two vessels and Capella ll is thought to be the only remaining example of the type, the original Malabar 1 believed to have been lost on a reef in Tahiti. Launched with a gaff main and foresail and a self tending jib, Capella ll now carries a staysail schooner rig with a marconi main and a furling headsail.. She carries a fisherman and a large gollywobbler. Re-installation of a self tending jib is in the pipeline. She is easily singlehanded under limited sail and with a bit of effort can carry all 5 sails. All spars are of spruce, solid bowsprit and boom and laminated masts. She has had 7 caretakers, of which I am the latest having owned her for almost 7 years. She is currently well into a 2 1/2 year below waterline and midships to the gunwhale rebuild and should be relaunched in the coming 4 months. Planned to be a 6 month partial frame replacement, it has turned out to be a major project with stem knee, lower stem section, all frames and floors replaced, partial horn timber replacement and total replanking below the waterline along with innumerable other repairs and rebuilds.. As such, I have no recent on water photos. LOD feet: 41 Hull Timber: Sapele & Mahogany Type of Boat: Schooner State: Queensland Built: 1967

Page 18 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Capricornia

Name: Capricornia Boat Owner: Pieter Lunstedt Builder: Jean Pierre Malagny Description: Built by French immigrant carpenter Jean Pierre Malagny in 1986 as a day sailor for Darwin Harbour. Her shallow draught, flat bottom and good sailing characteristics made her perfect for this role. Restored and improved for Tasmanian conditions by the current owner Pieter Lunstedt, the finishing work being done at the Living Boat Trust Franklin. The Trust uses Capricornia, together with their other whaleboats, Swiftsure II and an ex-RAN Montagu whaler, for long distance sailing/camping expeditions. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Hardwood Type of Boat: Whaleboat State: Tasmania Built: 1986

Carolyn

Name: Carolyn Boat Owner: Dick & Carolyn Lutjens Designer: Meyer Builder: Dean Wilson Description: Built by well known Tasmanian craftsman, Dean Wilson, in 1964, Carolyn began life as the Amelia II. She was built in Smithton as an aft wheelhouse crayboat, fishing in Tasmanian waters until disaster struck in 1989. Attempting to cross the St Helen’s bar, she rolled and tragically the skipper Bob Davison was lost; his body never recovered. The only other crew, Bob’s son, survived and was rescued. John Wells, owner of the original Margate Marina, salvaged her and after plugging the wet well converted her to a motor sailer pleasure craft renamed, Wrestashore. The original Gardner 6L W was stripped and rebuilt and still powers the boat today. John and his wife sailed in company with the Cruising Yacht Club, being a regular participant in the round Tasmania event. They also took Wrestashore up the eastern seaboard of Australia. Now called Carolyn, her distinctive hull is still well recognised by boaties who regale us with stories of past adventures on her, in company with John Wells. Participating in the Wooden Boat Festival biannually is a joy, as we never fail to meet people who have tales to tell of her history, and love to clamour aboard to drool over the Gardner engine once more. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Converted Fishing boat State: Tasmania Built: 1964

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 19 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Caroma

Name: Caroma Boat Owner: Roger Streater Designer: W. Ward & Swanson Builder: R. Streater Description: Caroma is a Carmen class sloop which was very prominent in the mid 60’s winning many ocean races in that period. Caroma was first launched in November 1978, in Sydney, she was a back yard built project which took three and a half years to completion. I kept her for 5 years and in 1983 I parted with her and in 1991, on Australia Day, bought her back and have maintained her in good order to this day. She is splined glued in Oregon and dynel sheathed. Much of the bright work is Teak which was salvaged from the Ferry Dee-Why which was being broken up by Harry Stride in Black Wattle Bay Sydney Harbour. Although I have not raced the vessel a great deal, I have cruised many miles,including two trips to the Barrier Reef and regular trips to Lord Howe Island. She has had many upgrades including three engines over her life time and is coming up to 40 years since launch. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Sloop tate: Tasmania Built: 1978

Charlotte

Name: Charlotte Boat Owner: Klaus Sussenbach Designer: Bruce Kirby Builder: klaus Sussenbach Description: Charlotte was built with single handed coastal cruising in mind. For this some modifications from the plans were made to make this task very easy. She feels safe and secure while underway, she is comfortable, dry and cosy below, her large cockpit is well protected from spray and her bimini shelters from the sun. A large dodger with a removable wind screen shelters the companion hatch, additional cockpit shades can be attached to this. She is easy to rig by one person, with her masts on tabernacles and booms that remain in place when the masts are down for road towing. Launching and retrieving is also a simple one person task and who does not get wet feet during that process. Her sails are housed inside on boom sailbags, supported by lazy jacks. This makes setting and lowering sail an easy job with the mainsail handled securely from the fore hatch and the mizzen from the safety of the cockpit. Both masts can rotate to allow sail handling while not having to motor directly upwind. This feature also removes the fear of rounding up when sailing Cont’d next page Page 20 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart downwind in heavy airs as the boom end can rotate forward of its mast. The cat rig has become a docile kitten on my NIS26. There is no need to leave the cockpit when underway unless lowering or retrieving her anchor with the electric anchor winch. Charlotte was built with strength and quality of workmanship in mind and has endured her by now over 10,000 miles cruised very well. She has visited very remote locations in the Kimberleys, has cruised on Lake Argyle twice and at several other locations on the long coast of Western Australia. She also was towed to Goolwa twice to cruise on the Coorong, the lower Murray, Lake Alexandrina and motoring up the mighty Murray past Murray bridge. My boat serves as a comfortable caravan while towing her to cruising locations. There is plenty of stowage space for an extended cruise, her longest was 70 days away from any re supply in the Kimberleys. In addition there is room for extra cruising gear like spare fuel, anchors, warps etc. A lightweight nesting dinghy can locate on the fore deck. This is my own design made in foam sandwich with the 2 halves weighing 13 & 19 kg respectively. All the required safety equipment is aboard plus a chart plotter, VHF and 27 Meg 2 way radio, stereo and fishfinder/ depth sounder. Charlotte can steer herself on the wind by locking the tiller, there is also a tiller pilot so one can relax in the cockpit or sit sheltered under the dodger if it rains while underway. She is powered by a 9.9Hp 4 stroke motor and fitted with a high forward/reverse thrust propeller. 360W of solar panel keep the two 100Ah batteries charged. She is 18 years now but wears her age very well thanks to one owner not being afraid to do whatever maintenance was required. Charlotte is on the market now, at 72 her owner builder has enjoyed her long enough and is looking for somebody to continue exploring places where few other boats of her size can go. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Cat Ketch State: West Australia Built: 1998

Cherry Cheer

Name: Cherry Cheer Boat Owner: David & Cynthia Burdon Designer: Ron Swanson & Wally Ward Builder: Peter Attrill Description: I have a very special connection with Cherry Cheer and the previous owner Peter Attrill. Peter, who happens to be my uncle, taught me to sail in Ferguson and then Enterprise class yachts prior to launching Cherry Cheer in 1977 (a Carmen class yacht) Cherry Cheer was built in Peter Attrill’s back yard at Howrah over a period of 5 years prior to its launching in 1977. I have a very special connection with Cherry Cheer and Peter, who is responsible for my love of sailing and wooden boats. Peter who is 88 years young, still sails with us today and is still passing on his wealth of knowledge. Peter has represented Australia at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games and is also been inducted into the Tasmanian Yachting Hall of Fame. Cherry Cheer still competes in yacht racing today on the Derwent River. There has only been one previous owner and that was my uncle Peter Attrill. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1977

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 21 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Charlotte

Name: Charlotte Boat Owner: Klaus Sussenbach Designer: Bruce Kirby Builder: Klaus Sussenbach Description: Charlotte was built with single handed coastal cruising in mind. For this some modifications from the plans were made to make this task very easy. She feels safe and secure while underway, she is comfortable, dry and cosy below, her large cockpit is well protected from spray and her bimini shelters from the sun. A large dodger with a removable wind screen shelters the companion hatch, additional cockpit shades can be attached to this. She is easy to rig by one person, with her masts on tabernacles and booms that remain in place when the masts are down for road towing. Launching and retrieving is also a simple one person task and who does not get wet feet during that process. Her sails are housed inside on boom sailbags, supported by lazy jacks. This makes setting and lowering sail an easy job with the mainsail handled securely from the fore hatch and the mizzen from the safety of the cockpit. Both masts can rotate to allow sail handling while not having to motor directly upwind. This feature also removes the fear of rounding up when sailing downwind in heavy airs as the boom end can rotate forward of its mast. The cat rig has become a docile kitten on my NIS26. There is no need to leave the cockpit when underway unless lowering or retrieving her anchor with the electric anchor winch. Charlotte was built with strength and quality of workmanship in mind and has endured her by now over 10,000 miles cruised very well. She has visited very remote locations in the Kimberleys, has cruised on Lake Argyle twice and at several other locations on the long coast of Western Australia. She also was towed to Goolwa twice to cruise on the Coorong, the lower Murray, Lake Alexandrina and motoring up the mighty Murray past Murray bridge. My boat serves as a comfortable caravan while towing her to cruising locations. There is plenty of stowage space for an extended cruise, her longest was 70 days away from any re supply in the Kimberleys. In addition there is room for extra cruising gear like spare fuel, anchors, warps etc. A lightweight nesting dinghy can locate on the fore deck. This is my own design made in foam sandwich with the 2 halves weighing 13 & 19 kg respectively. All the required safety equipment is aboard plus a chart plotter, VHF and 27 Meg 2 way radio, stereo and fishfinder/ depth sounder. Charlotte can steer herself on the wind by locking the tiller, there is also a tiller pilot so one can relax in the cockpit or sit sheltered under the dodger if it rains while underway. She is powered by a 9.9Hp 4 stroke motor and fitted with a high forward/reverse thrust propeller. 360W of solar panel keep the two 100Ah batteries charged. She is 18 years now but wears her age very well thanks to one owner not being afraid to do whatever maintenance was required. Charlotte is on the market now, at 72 her owner builder has enjoyed her long enough and is looking for somebody to continue exploring places where few other boats of her size can go. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Cat Ketch State: West Australia Built: 1998

Page 22 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Clara

Name: Clara Boat Owner: Graeme Broxam Designer: Unknown Builder: Thomas William Description: Clara was built for William Davidson Peacock, a Hobart based food processor and pioneer of the direct export to Europe of fruit, and he owned her till his death in 1921. There has been some speculation that Clara may have been rebuilt from an earlier 24ft Clara built in 1881, although this is now considered unlikely. Clara was lengthened to 28ft waterline at Charles Lucas’ Battery Point slip in 1908, to make her more competitive in Hobart’s cruiser class races. After her rig was enlarged sometime later she won many races. In 1915 Clara was converted to an auxiliary motor launch: a low enclosed cabin over the forward half of the cockpit was soon fitted, but a reduced sailing rig was retained throughout her career. At some stage the centreboard was removed and a heavy false keel added to maintain stability. WD Peacock died in 1921 and Clara was sold as an auxiliary yacht with a 12 hp motor in 1922. Details of owners for the next 20 years have not been confirmed. At the close of the Second World War Clara was owned by a returned serviceman Mr Clapstick, who sold it to JD ‘Dick’ Lucas in 1948. His son Jim later became owner, and kept Clara in the family until 1979. Douglas Hornsby then bought Clara and it became part of the Vintage Boat Club of Tasmania. Michael Johnson bought Clara from Hornsby in 2002. The current owner acquired Clara in 2010. Clara has had a Wolverine and two 28-32 hp Morris Navigator petrol engines installed during its different periods of ownership, but the original engine is unknown. Early images show that a semi-enclosed wheelhouse was added to the cabin prior to 1938, just clearing the boom from the small mainsail it carried. This curious and perhaps awkward configuration was retained till 2012. In 2010 the current owner commissioned a significant restoration at the Wooden Boat Centre, Franklin. Clara has been restored to her c1910 configuration with a new 20 hp 3-cylindere Yanmar diesel. Work included splining the hull, some reribbing and new structural members including a blue gum false keel, and substantial refastening. At least 75% of the structure as existed in 1908 has been retained. Clara has a batten seam carvel built hull, with the top plank overlapping in clinker style. Most of the Kauri carvel planking dates from 1892 and 1908, the clinker top plank being replaced with celery top pine and new decks in plywood in the 2012-15 refit. CLARA is fitted with a pivoting centreboard and internal ballast, and sailed as a half-decked, semi-open boat with a low forward cabin roof designed to be removable. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Kauri & Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1892

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 23 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Cliodhna

Name: Cliodhna Boat Owner: Niall Campbell Designer: Jay R Benford Builder: Niall Campbell Description: Building Cliodhna was the fulfilment of a long held dream, a steep learning curve, calling on every skill I had learnt, from lofting to launching. Having owned a few of Tasmania’s historic wooden boats, Casilda and Utiekah lll, both now nearing 100 years old, I wanted a new vessel as a retirement home and to go cruising. I chose Benford’s Fantail 45 Cutter as my dream ship, after living aboard for 4 years and cruising Tasmania, she has exceeded my expectations, She is constructed from all local Tasmanian timbers, being strip planked with with 25mm Regnans with 3 layers of 3mm Regnans veneer and a heavy fibreglass protective skin. Below she is fitted out with some of Tassie’s beautiful timber, Huon Pine, milled from a log I found In the Picton river, Sassafras, Blackwood and Celery Top Pine, even the wheel is Leatherwood salvaged from a burnt out forestry coup. I mostly worked alone doing almost everything, including the electrics and electronics, the plumbing, an engine rebuild and installation, making the patterns and finishing the custom bronze fittings and pouring the 4000 kg ballast keel. I also built the mast and rig. So far everything works well, she is a joy to sail, easy to singlehand and a comfortable home. Following the AWBF I will be preparing for heading North to fulfil the second part of the dream, to cruise extensively for as long as I can. LOD feet: 44 ull Timber: Eucalyptyus Regnans Type of Boat: Pilot House Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 2008

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Coronet

Name: Coronet Boat Owner: Gerard Duggan Designer: Arthur Robb Builder: Athol Rowe Description: Coronet was lucky to have been built at all! Apple orchardist, Athol Rowe, of Waterloo Bay, deep in the Huon Valley, wrote, in 1959, to yacht designer Arthur Robb in London asking to buy the plans or Robb’s Crown class boat. Robb’s reply was brief “No, we don’t sell designs to amateur builders” Correspondence ensued. Robb finally relented after meeting Hobart marine chandler, Guy Rex, and sailing with him at the Cowes Regata. It appears Rex said Rowe was a natural and gifted boat builder, that the boat was to be built of the best for Rowe’s personal use and that, if Robb wanted to see the Crown design become an accepted class with lots of them being built, a Rowe-built specimen was the best advertisement he could get. Rowe kept meticulous records of materials purchased and prices paid for every item that went into her. Hull: 31ft. Written in thumb-nail dipped in tar hand-writing, the journal provides a fascinating insight to the constructor’s approach to boat-building. Also prices and values at the time; the total price of the Huon, Celery Top, King Billy Pine and Douglas Fir in her hull amounted to 103 pounds and 12 shillings! Rowe splined her topsides during construction. Coronet’s design length is 31 feet overall; beam 8ft 4in. and draft 5ft 3in. Pre-launch, she weighed-in well under her design weight. It’s possible that this was no accident. Rowe met the problem by adding a 3in lead shoe to her keel. That brought her nicely up to weight and that extra lead, further from her centre of buoyancy, stiffens her appreciably. She is a very quick and slippery hull, indeed! She was fitted with a Volvo MD7A marine diesel of 13HP in 1980. Preparation of Coronet for the 2019 Festival, and for preceding events, has been overseen by Kettering boat builder, Chris Moncrieff and his knowledge of classic-boat construction gained by a 5 year apprenticeship at Portsea’s Wooden Boat Shop and 25 years of experience, much of it with wooden boats, is largely responsible for getting her here in all her glory. Written -9 October 2018, Coronet’s birthday and the 57th anniversary of her launch. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine & Douglas Fir Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1961

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 25 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Credence

Name: Credence Boat Owner: Stewart & Jeanne Males Designer: Richard Taylor Builder: Richard Taylor Description: Richard Taylor designed and built Credence in his fathers garage in Glenorchy while still a teenager, taking three and a half years and launching her on the Domain in 1972. She is very much the result of the Tasmanian “can do” attitude built on a shoestring budget…..Richard today delights in pointing out the pennies used everywhere as washers, the result of discovering that equivalents would have cost two pence each! A subsequent owner added bulwarks enhancing the sheer and raised the deckhouse creating an aesthetically pleasing and workmanlike motor sailer. We brought our little Kaurie cutter Emma to the AWBF for many years but now in our seventies looked for a more sedate craft and have found Credence ideal and much admired. LOD feet: 23 Bull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1972

Curlew

Name: Curlew Boat Owner: Trevor Smith Designer: T. Sawyer Builder: Sawyer Brothers Description: Curlew is best described as a “PassageMaker” with auxiliary / steadying sail. At 35 feet and with a range of 1000 nautical miles, Curlew is one of a limited number of small vessels in Australian waters designed for long distance offshore cruising under power. Curlew was launched at Kettering in 1990. She has made the voyage between Kettering and Morton Bay several times and has cruised extensively in Tasmanian and Queensland waters. She is an attractive vessel, representative of the traditional Tasmanian double- ended cray boat hull design and is heavily built to commercial specifications. Curlew has a round bilged hull form and is carvel planked in 25mm x 120mm (approx.) Spotted Gum over 50mm x 25mm Spotted Gum ribs set at 135mm centres.. She is copper nailed and roved with bronze bolts. The deck is fibreglass sheathed marine plywood laid on 90mm x 40mm solid Spotted Gum deck beams. The deckhouse is framed in Spotted Gum and the marine ply panels are sheathed in fibreglass. Internal trim is Huon Pine and other decorative timbers Curlew’s main propulsion is a slow revving 90hp Fiat diesel. Although there are indications that she was built with the possibility of commercial fishing in mind she was finished, and has always been used as, a coastal cruiser. She has an easy motion and the deep side rails make her a secure vessel in a seaway. The previous owner purchased her in Kettering in 2001, cruising her to Raby Bay near Brisbane, she remained based in the Morton Bay area until we purchased her as a long distance cruising home. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Passagemaker State: Queensland Built: 1990 Page 26 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Defiance

Name: Defiance Boat Owner: Craig Coulsen Designer: Sparkman & Stephens Builder: Doug Booker Description: Defiance was built by Doug Booker and launched in September 1972. Construction is triple diagonal Oregon planking on laminated frames. The deck is double layers of cedar ply. The boat remains in original launch configuration. Defiance is reputed to be the first boat designed to the then new IOR Mark IIIA rule when launched. Defiance, being Design No 2098 is the basis for the very popular Savage Defiance 30 production yacht of which over 100 were built. The NorthStar 1000 built in Canada is also based on the Defiance design. For many years, Defiance was a mainstay of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club fleet while owned by the well known ABC newsreader James Dibble and his family. In the early to mid 1970’s Defiance was a regular placegetter in Australian 1/2 ton Championships and participant in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. In early 2016, Defiance was salvaged from a storage yard 2 days before it was to cut up and the keel sold for scrap after having been largely abandoned there in 2009. Deemed uninsurable by a well known insurer, restoration began in mid 2015 to stop any further deterioration with the balance of the work being completed during 2018. Recent work includes fitting a new engine and rig, along with cosmetic work. The restoration has returned Defiance to as close to original as possible, even matching the original 1972 paint colour from an old British Paint colour card. Much of the work however has been to remedy poor workmanship of recent years rather than the original build or wear and tear of 47 years of use. The most notable detail of construction is the lack of stringers with the laminated frames bevelled to take the planking directly. Each of the planks are full length with no joins. The quality of the original build has allowed the boat to survive to this day. Defiance is an iconic boat from a golden period of Australian ocean racing which also gave us the now classic S & S race boats Ragamuffin, Love & War, Salacia 2 and Queeqeeg. Defiance is moored at Cygnet in the Huon Valley and used for family racing and cruising. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Masthead Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1972

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 27 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Didi

Name: Didi Boat Owner: Dave Fraser Designer: Bruce Kirby Builder: Philippe Patacca Description: Didi is the smallest of the Bruce Kirby designed ‘Keeless’ Norwalk Islands Sharpies range. All of them (5.5, 7, 8, 9, 10.5, 13) make a strong case for the title of the ultimate cruising boat. The Keelless Unstayed Rig Norwalk Islands Sharpies. Changing seascapes and attitudes around the world. 200 years of Work Boat heritage, combined with Bruce Kirby’s modern design thinking (Laser, Sonar, Pixel, Americas Cup) gives us a fast, very safe, amazingly easily handled, ultra shallow draft, family cruiser or racer. All are designed to be home or professionally built in light weight modern plywood epoxy composite construction. Now around 50, in build and on the water, in all of the sizes so far except the 13 in Australia including 4 in Tasmania. There are many more in the Americas, and Europe. With their ‘Keel’ (Centreboard) ‘up’, their very shallow draft and strong bottoms mean they can moor where others cannot. Their ballast is fixed in or on the hull so they are not keel dependant for stability and righting or stuck with the dangerous tripping action of conventional keels in survival conditions. Both booms can be swung out beyond 90 degrees to CL, eliminating the need for spinnakers and sail changing. Single line reefing and all controls run to he cockpit. No need ever for sail changing or going forward in any conditions, especially survival. Because the sails never leave the booms, the already large cabin space is uncompromised by wet sails which can be such a bane on living aboard. The NIS range all self steer, with the wind forward of the beam and can even be sailed backwards. The range has been constantly tweaked by the Nisboats crew and builders over the past 30 years. For the doubters of the unstayed masts, and the types seaworthiness, the proof was the witnessed voyage to the 2007 Hobart Festival from Port Welshpool by Robert Ayliffe’s NIS 7(23′), ‘Charlie Fisher’, with Robert and his Crew and Bote Cote’s Ian Phillips. The little boat was sailed happily through a variety of conditions, often running before 40 plus knots, and on the run home, solo from Marion Bar, to Triabunna, beating and broad reaching into (witnessed) 65 plus knots. Complete and staged kits are available world wide. You can stage your project with the plywood framing and furniture kit and everything to finish the boat pack. The kits are available in Australia, the Americas and Europe. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Centre Board Cat Ketch State: South Australia Built: 2011

Page 28 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Diomede II

Name: Diomede II Boat Owner: Gary Bashford & Fiona Kuch Designer: Sparkman & Stephens Builder: Jack Gutierrez Description: Diomede II is a centre- board yawl. She is constructed according to design 1054 by Sparkman and Stephens from the USA. Finisterre, after which the design was named, was the original boat designed by Olin Stephens and was a three time winner of the 625 nautical mile Newport – Bermuda Race. There are four Finisterre yawls known to have been constructed in Australia, two of which are known to remain afloat. One of these surviving boats has been overlaid with fibre-glass meaning Diomede is the only known surviving boat of this design in Australia to original specs. A complete refurbishment has been undertaken since 2015 by Jon Minnebo from RM Marine, based in Kettering. The White Beech deck was carefully lifted and re-laid retaining 38mm of original decking. The galley has been refitted and constructed of Huon Pine. The four cylinder Perkins engine has been replaced with a Volvo Penta 55. All new running gear has been installed. In order to meet survey the stainless steel rigging is currently being replaced. Diomede’s Huon Pine planks were milled by the Morrison family at Strahan. Diomede II has competed in races in Port Phillip Bay and the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. She has cruised extensively around Tasmania, Bass Strait and interstate, attending the Sydney Tall Ships Festival with her previous owner. A comprehensive archive of original plans, blueprints and correspondence from Olin Stephens has been maintained by Diomede’s four owners. A DVD copy of the original reel-to-reel movie of the laying of the keel by Jack Gutierrez, the launching and maiden voyage to Tasmanian waters is also a feature of the collection. Diomede II is a centre-board yawl. She is constructed according to design 1054 by Sparkman and Stephens from the USA. Finisterre, after which the design was named, was the original boat designed by Olin Stephens and was a three time winner of the 625 nautical mile Newport – Bermuda Race. There are four Finisterre yawls known to have been constructed in Australia, two of which are known to remain afloat. One of these surviving boats has been overlaid with fibre-glass meaning Diomede is the only known surviving boat of this design in Australia to original specs. A complete refurbishment has been undertaken since 2015 by Jon Minnebo from RM Marine, based in Kettering. The white beech deck was carefully lifted and re-laid retaining 38mm of original decking. The galley has been refitted and constructed of Huon Pine. The four cylinder Perkins engine has been replaced with a Volvo Penta 55. All new running gear has been installed. Diomede’s Huon Pine planks were milled by the Morrison family at Strahan. A comprehensive archive of original plans, blueprints and correspondence from Olin Stephens has been maintained by Diomede’s four owners. A DVD copy of the original reel-to-reel movie of the laying of the keel by Jack Gutierrez, the launching and maiden voyage to Tasmanian waters is also a feature of the collection. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Finisterre Yawl State: Tasmania Built: 1969

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 29 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Double Dutch 2

Name: Double Dutch 2 Boat Owner: Bart Witte Designer: James Wharram Builder: Bart Witte Description: I chose to build a James Wharram designed Tiki 21 catamaran for sailing in the area of Coles Bay, Schouten Island and the Freycinet National Park. Conditions often change quickly with smooth waters in the mornings and rough waves later in the day. The Tiki 21 design is perfect for crossing the bar at the entrance to the Swan River and for visiting coves and beaches, stable, fast and no centre board. If you run aground you can just jump out, push the boat off and sail on. Wanting an all-weather boat, I made some changes to the original plans inspired by ideas from the James Wharram members magazine, Sea People. I raised the deck by 100 mm to produce larger cabins and a more comfortable deck area. I redesigned the windows and the beams to create the look of a Tiki 26. I also installed a central winch. After 10 years of planning and hard work, I launched Double Dutch 2 on my 60th birthday. Since then I have enjoyed many exhilarating trips along the coast. LOD feet: 21 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Tiki 21 Catamaran State: Tasmania Built: 2008

Duet

Name: Duet Boat Owner: David Bowker Designer: Len Randell Builder: Ken Williams Description: Duet is an exceptionally stable yacht due to her long keel and 9 tons displacement. I purchased her in 2004 and previous owners included Steve McGill of Snug (purchased 1998), Guy Deakin of Hobart (1994) and Simon Weber of Allen’s Rivulet. She is based on a design by Len Randell for the yacht Walkabout although Walkabout was a gaff rigged ketch. The highlight of her wooden interior is a magnificent Huon pine table. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1976

Page 30 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Eagle

Name: Eagle Boat Owner: William Amann Designer: Peter Cole Builder: Stronarch’s Stony Creek Launceston Description: Eagle is a Peter Cole-designed 46 foot wooden yacht, built of one and a quarter inch huon pine strip planks, edge fastened. She was built on the banks of Tasmania’s Tamar River in 1981 at the Stronarch (formerly Teasdale) boat yard. With a typical Peter Cole rolled, flush ply deck over steamed cedar frames, this powerful mast- head sloop was built for Richard Winspear and competed in numerous Sydney to Hobart races. In the late 1980s, Eagle was modified by the great Ben Lexcen (of Australia ll, America’s Cup fame) with modifications to the keel and rubber design before(being?) beautifully sheathed externally in fiberglass before(prior to?) completing the 1990 Sydney-Hobart classic. In 1995, Hudson’s of Sydney fitted out the interior with light timbers to compliment the exquisite below decks exposed Huon hull. The fit out was done to an exacting standard, creating an impeccable luxury cruiser that is easily handled and particularly well-behaved in a sea. This fast Passagemaker was purchased by John Eastway (writer of the ABC’s Mother and Son series) who fastidiously maintained her until 2012 when she was purchased by the current owner, Bill Amann, of Western Australia. She is Sydney-registered but is penned in her home state of Tasmania where she frequently plies the waters of the Derwent and East Coast. LOD feet: 42 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1981

Efficient

Boat Owner: Nick Williams Designer: A. Dovell Builder: Tim Phillips Category: Boats Afloat

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 31 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Egeria

Name: Egeria Boat Owner: The Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania Designer: John L.Thornycroft Builder: Purdon & Featherstone Pty Ltd Description: ML Egeria is a 18.9m Huon Pine carvel motor launch with Teak combings and White Beech decking. Designed by John L. Thorneycroft (c. 1937) she was built by Purdon & Featherstone, of Napoleon Street, Battery Point for the Hobart Marine Board. Egeria was launched on 20 October 1941 and replaced the old steam vessel of the same name. Initially built as the Harbour Master’s Launch, Egeria was named after HMS Egeria, flagship for the Hobart Regattas of January 1888 and 1889. On the 22nd June 1942, the Australian Navy requisitioned Egeria for harbour patrol duties on the River Derwent. Egeria then worked as a naval auxiliary launch. Egeria was sold to the Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania in 2006 and has been used since as a Vice Regal launch conveying many distinguished guests, including Royalty and our Tasmanian Governors, around Hobart. Through the efforts of her now volunteer crew and the Motor Yacht Club of Tasmania, Egeria is maintained in survey and is readily available and accessible to the people of Tasmania. The charter work undertaken (Harbour cruises, weddings and celebrations among others), assists with the ongoing maintenance and upkeep of this special vessel. A recent grant issued by the Tasmanian Community Fund enabled a full restoration of the hull to be undertaken. During the hull renovation, with all the paint removed, volunteers working on the project were able to fully appreciate the true craftsmanship of the shipwrights responsible for the building of the Egeria over 75 years ago. The hull restoration works are now complete and there is confidence that with appropriate care and maintenance, the Egeria will easily survive another 75 years on our Harbour. Once again, Egeria will continue her duty as the Official Launch for the Sail Past during the 2019 MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Throughout the festival, Egeria will be proudly on display and open for inspection. Visitors are encouraged to come aboard and explore the beauty of this historic river vessel. LOD feet: 60 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1941

Page 32 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Elf Name: Elf Boat Owner: Christopher Ricketts Designer: William Hand Builder: William Ball Jnr.. Description: A fore-runner of the one design class which were the foremost racing yachts in the early decades of the 20th century. Elf had five first-class victories in the Hobart Regatta between 1908 and 1934 and three 2nds and four 3rd places during the same period. She also won two around Bruny Island races. Originally owned by William Ball who built her, there have been a succession of owners including J. and J.T.Nicholls from 1912; D.H.Freeman by 1919; by 1923 R.S.Mills; from 1933-36 Messrs Stuart,Burt and Taylor; by 1938 Tulloch Roberts; by 1968 Geoffrey Breadon; early 1990’s Ben Marris; since 1993 by the present owner Christopher Ricketts. Elf is a well-built yacht and is still a pleasure to sail. LOD feet: 31 ull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop tate: Tasmania Built: 1907

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 33 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Elizabeth Mary

Name: Elizabeth Mary Boat Owner: Andrew Massie Description: Elizabeth Mary was built by Jack Lierick in Hastings, Victoria as a crayboat. She was sold to a shark fisherman in Port Albert and launched in 1957 as a shark boat to fish from his home port. In 1969, she sprung a leak while working in rough weather off Flinders Island and was beached near Bable Island to repair and refloated to return to Victoria. She continued shark fishing until bought by her current owner in 1987 and converted to fish in Tasmania as a Danish seiner for flathead and whiting. Elizabeth Mary was a well known vessel for her fresh fish that was sold to the public in Victoria Dock in the 1990s. She was retired from fishing in 2004 and has since been converted to a pleasure boat by her owner. In winter 2017 she cruised to Queensland for a well earned holiday. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Kauri Pine Type of Boat: Converted fishing boat State: Tasmania Built: 1957

Elusive

Name: Elusive Boat Owner: Bruno & Jenny Andolfatto Description: Elusive was built and owned by Athol Walter in 1977-1979. Then owned by HCP Cuthbert till 2015, when we bought her. Very strong and seaworthy, cold moulded hull, with 3 layers of King Billy Pine on Celery Top Pine ribs. A large cabin, over 6′ standing room and 6 berths. Family friendly boat that sails easily single handed or 8/10 crew. Penn was my sailing mentor from the age of 11 and yes, I have sailed on Elusive over the past 35 odd years. Many years of harbour racing, overnight expeditions down the Channel, boat rallies and festivals has given us a greater appreciation for the craftmanship that went into this, no fuss, fine yacht. In my opinion, a wooden boat has a soul that can’t be replicated with other materials. Happy owners the Andolfatto family. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Fractional rig Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1977

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Emeritus 2

Name: Emeritus 2 Boat Owner: Nicholas Ryan Designer: Ray Kemp Builder: Ray Kemp Description: For conversion the boat went back into the shed she was built in. That’s where we heard her original name – Kemway Star – was made up from the names of builder Ray Kemp and owners Chris & Jeff Whayman, who couldnt decide what else to call her. Built to the best standards of the day, for a well-known fishing family and at a time of high cray prices. She has splined topsides and doesn’t appear to have been ‘nail sick’, where the bow planks work their way out from the stem head – the result of years spent punching into seaways with the full weight of the boat behind.. LOD feet: 58 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1983

Emily Thomas

Name: Emily Thomas Boat Owner: John & Maria Cribb Designer: Rossiter Builder: Rossiter Description: This vessel is a clinker built professional fishing boat and was used in South Australia on a daily basis in gulf waters. LOD feet: 3 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Putt-Putt State: South Australia Built: c.1950/60

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 35 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Emma Name: Emma Boat Owner: Laurie Cook & Janine Combes Designer: Bert Woollacott Builder: Bert Woollacott Description: Emma was previously owned by Stewart and Jeanne Males and prior to that by Robert and Lesley Swan. She was sailed from Auckland to Northern Tasmania sometime in the 1980’s and was somewhat neglected for some years whilst moored in the Tamar River. She has been restored and kept in great condition by the subsequent owners. LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Cutter State: Victoria Built: c1950 Enough

Name: Enough Boat Owner: Miraim & Geoff Ashton Designer: Bill Lapworth Builder: Cheoy Lee Description: Few boats are built for a specific event. The cost is simply too high to justify a single-digit output from a production boat. But a special event was exactly what launched Bill Lapworth’s Cheoy Lee 50, a speedy sailboat that was built to race in the bi-annual Transpac, which runs from California to Hawaii. The first hull was named Ichiban and she took second overall in the 1961 race. Others soon took notice and commissioned what they deemed to be a race-winner. Fifty-five years later, most of the six original hulls are still racing, winning, and cruising. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Bill Lapworth was the preeminent designer on the West Coast USA. He became known for his Cal series racing and cruising designs. He worked with Chinese builder Cheoy Lee, to built the Lapworth 50, a masthead sloop with a canoe stern. Although not light by today’s standards, the 50-footer was agile and had a fin keel and spade rudder, a surprisingly modern underbody for the time. Built of strip-planked Philippine Mahogany (Meranti) planking on Australian Jarrah frames with bronze fasteners, the Lapworth 50 build was focused on a stiff, lightweight hull. Bronze floors, knees and engine bed lock together the wooden structure. The design offered a complete interior for long offshore passages. A full galley, one or two heads and two cabins provided plenty of accommodation for the crew. Enough underwent a complete restoration 2000-2008 in Port Townsend, Washington. With the deck removed, all systems were renewed giving her a fresh start on the next 55 years of racing and cruising. In 2014, Enough left California to Mexico, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga and New Zealand. Enough is currently cruising with her family of four, 2 adults and 2 children, in the South Pacific; New Zealand to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and on to Australia for the Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart in February 2019. LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Philippine Mahogany (Meranti) Type of Boat: racing sloop State: USA Built: 1962Page 36 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Erik

Name: Erik Boat Owner: Jane C Wilson Designer: William Atkins Builder: John-Pierre Kerry Description: Erik is a sister ship to Sir Robin Knox-Johnston’s famous Suhaili, the first boat to circumnavigate around the world non stop in the notoriously dramatic 1968 Golden Globe race and the sole finisher. Appropriately, for this 2019 AWBF, this is the 50th anniversary of the Golden Globe which is being run under 1968 conditions, ie no GPS, Sat Nav, calculators, phones etc. The race, at the time of this festival, should be currently underway and/or close to finishing, having started in July 2018. Erik is an Atkins 32, her lines were scaled down and adapted by William Atkin from the famous Colin Archer designed Redningskoites, the sailing lifesaving vessels of Norway. Erik was built in South Australia in 1984 by John-Pierre Kerry. She is beautifully and soundly constructed: carvel planked in Spotted Gum on Karri frames with Teak on ply decks. She has traditionally finished tan sails with a standard ketch fit out- staysail, main & mizzen, high cut jib and larger genoa and also the ability to change to 2 paired foresails for down wind cruising. Under full sail can look rather glamorous .Our contribution has been minor, a cockpit hatch for improved engine room access, redoing electrics, earthing and anodes to reduce early signs of de-lignification and of course endless painting and maintenance. Perhaps not noted for her speed ( just as well there’s plenty of storage room for supplies) in light winds, she more than makes up for it in heavier conditions. Erik’s seaworthy design, stability and profoundly sturdy construction makes her the ideal boat for sailing in these sometime ferociously unpredictable Tasmanian waters. She is very kindly boat to single hand in, her stability and sea kindliness come to the fore, you just need good waterproofs! I sail her in partnership with Ian Parry whose lifelong boat experience and ability has resulted in Erik being exceptionally well cared for on a limited budget. She is not a glossy racing boat, more of a stout little workhorse. We keep her spare and clean and love her to bits. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Atkins Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1984 Erin

Name: Erin Boat Owner: Marc Mumford Designer: Iain Oughtred Builder: Marc Mumford Description: Marc began construction on Erin at the age of 18, completing by the age of 20. In 2011, we had the honour of Iain Oughtred skippering Erin at the Festival. Erin has been in attendance of many of the Wooden Boat Festivals and has become a family tradition. LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: Marine Plywood Type of Boat: Sailing Yawl State: Tasmania Built: 1976 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 37 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Eva Blanche

Name: Eva Blanche Boat Owner: David & Mary Lou Conway Designer: Arthur ‘Tucker’ Abel Builder: Arthur ‘Tucker’ Abel Description: Eva Blanche was one of three launches in A.A.’Tucker’ Abel’s Royal Blue Motor Launch Line (RBML), as charter and ferry boats. (Mays, N (in draft). Industrious, Innovative and Altruistic: The 20th Century Boat Builders of Battery Point’; Broxam, G. ‘Those that survive’). Tucker Abel was the first major motor launch operator in Tasmania and also owned a substantial boatyard in Battery Point until it was partially destroyed by fire in 1917. Among other ventures, Tucker continued to build smaller boats and dinghies until his death in 1938. It is believed that Eva Blanche is the sole remaining member of the RBML. According to the October 24, 1910 edition of the Hobart newspaper, the Daily Post, Eva Blanche was launched on the 18 October 1910. Eva was described as ‘one of the finest of its kind, is built especially for tourist and pleasure parties by the owner Mr A. Abel’. Eva Blanche was sold to Mr A. Hammond, of the Huon Valley in late 1922 and stayed in the Hammond family into the 1940’s where she was used to transport people and cargo, mainly apples, on the lower reaches of the Huon River. Between then and now, Eva Blanche has been in the Rodway, Coad and now Conway families as a pleasure craft on the Derwent River, D’ Entrecasteux Channel and Huon River. During this period her front deck was raised making her more commodious. A lengthy renovation and repair was undertaken over the past 10 years at Cygnet, by the Conways. This involved replacing 60 m of hull boards and 50 % of her ribs; installing new stem and stern posts, aft deck and cabin. Eva is now driven by a 30 HP Kubota Beta diesel motor, positioned towards the bow, similar to her original design. Her current cabin configuration is also more in keeping to her ferry roots. Eva was relaunched on the 26 March, 2018 at Port Huon and now resides at Franklin Marina. LOD feet: 35 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1910

Page 38 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Evening Tide

Name: Evening Tide Boat Owner: Philip Hibbs Designer: Robert Perry Builder: Bruce Darcey Description: The Valiant 40 was the design that started Robert Perry’s career. It was known as the first performance cruiser, hundreds have been built and are cruising all around the world. The Valiant 40 is an extremely tough and seaworthy design with a good turn of speed. Evening tide is the pilot house version and was built in Hobart by the late Bruce Darcy, who’s craftsmanship is second to none. Evening Tide was built for a Sydney client and only the best materials were used in construction; African Mahogany hull, Teak decks and Silver Ash and Teak fit out. She was launched in 1985 and cruised straight to Sydney where she spent most of her life in Pittwater and surrounding areas. She was purchased by Phllip Hibbs and sailed to Tasmania where she underwent an extensive refit before entering the 2015 Mystate Wooden boat festival in Hobart. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: African Mahogany Type of Boat: cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1985

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 39 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Fair Winds

Name: Fair Winds Boat Owner: Mark Chew Designer: Philip Rhodes Builder: Abeking Description: Fair Winds was built by the famous German shipyard of Abeking and Rasmussen in 1956 for a wealthy West Coast American. She is Design Number 633 from the board of Philip Rhodes perhaps the most elegant of the legendary mid 20th century American naval architects. Her launch was covered by articles in both “The Rudder” and “Yachting World”, the two most prestigious sailing publications of the day. She has crossed the Atlantic four times, and the Pacific once. Mark Chew, her current owner, purchased her in Auckland New Zealand in 2004 and sailed her back to her home port of Melbourne (RYCV). She has had two major refits giving her a new deck and hull planking. In the last 10 years she has sailed back to New Zealand, up to New Caledonia, down to Hobart and made numerous passages up and down the east coast of Australia. She has raced in Classic Yacht events under the CYAA/RYCV burgees in Auckland, The Bay of Islands, Sydney, Pittwater, Brisbane, Hamilton Island, Flinders, Queenscliff, Geelong and Melbourne, and hopes to do so soon on the Derwent. In 2016, following a successful North Queensland regatta season she made the cover of Australian Sailing Magazine twice in 12 months. She is simply fitted out with minimal electronics, basic comforts and no auto pilot. She is crewed by a tight knit group of close friends and their families. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Mahogany & Kauri Type of Boat: Sloop State: Victoria Built: 1956

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Fairwind

Name: Fairwind Boat Owner: Stef van den Hoek Designer: John Watkinson Builder: Michael Elton Description: The Drascombe longboat was only ever built under licence in Australia, unlike it’s smaller cousin, the lugger, which was available to buy as a kit or built from plans. Fairwind is the 4th of 9 longboats built by Michael Elton, a Sydney-based builder. He was the only registered boat builder of Drascombe longboats in Australia. I believe I am the third owner of Fairwind. I bought her in 2011 from William Bell of Kiama who had her for 10 years. She was loved and sailed by her in the waters off Kiama. I do not know anything of her original owner. I wanted a sail boat to expedition, camp and travel with the ease of being trailable for storage and accessing new waterways to explore. Also a simple boat to share sailing with other non-sailors. It was at the 2011 Wooden Boat festival that I was looking at newer designs similar to the longboat, and I confidently stated, ‘Drascombe longboats never come up for sale in Australia’. Of course, almost instantly I noticed what is now my boat listed intheAfloat magazine. Fairwind and I have spent almost every summer since I bought her, exploring up and down the east coast from the Whitsundays to Broken Bay and the Hawkesbury, Myall Lakes, Port Stephens, Gippsland Lakes, Bateman’s Bay, Sydney Harbour, and Port Phillip. I plan to take her home to the West coast some time soon, there’s just been so much to explore on the east. That brings me to this summer, on the east coast of Tasmania and this year’s Tawe Nunnegah Raid. Great boat for some fabulous adventures. LOD feet: 21 Hull Timber: Marine Ply Type of Boat: Drascombe longboat State: Victoria Built: 1996

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 41 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Farewell

Name: Farewell Boat Owner: Noel & Stephen Hall Designer: Noel Hall Builder: Noel Hall Description: Farewell was built as a family cruising boat over 3 years in the farm shed at Farewell Hill, Oyster Cove & has always been owned by The Halls. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Motor-sailer Pleasure Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1998

Fiona

Name: Fiona Boat Owner: Harold Paulsen Designer: Jock Muir Builder: Ted & Michael Boyle Description: Over the years Fiona has gone through extensive rebuilds and is currently under restoration. She worked out of Flinders Island under Samuel William Barrett, commonly known as Bill Barrett, in 1971 and he is well known in the fishing industry. The current owner believes that Fiona was used as a postal delivery boat within the Furneaux group of islands and he would appreciate any further information as there is not a lot known about her working history. She is sloop rigged and weighs 21.56 tons, and according to Bill Barrett she originally had an aft wheel house as shown in drawing but now has a centre wheel house and comfortably sleeps 8 with a functional galley and washroom. The wheel house and interior is made of Huon and King Billy Pine. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: Hardwood Type of Boat: Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1947

Page 42 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Fleetwood

Name: Fleetwood Boat Owner: Gordon Scrim Designer: Chris Craft USA Builder: Gordon Scrim Description: Fleetwood was built over a three year period by Gordon with help from a number of professionals when required. Fleetwood was built using the original 1950 plans which were converted to CAD format. Finished in Philippine Mahogany with Celery Top Pine inlay, Fleetwood looks very much like the original versions. Period hardware was used where available to continue the 1950 theme. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: Balsa & Ply Type of Boat: Runabout State: Tasmania Built: 2009 Flemingo

Name: Flemingo Boat Owner: John Eastway Designer: Fred Fleming Builder: Fred Fleming Description: Fred Fleming originally built MV Flemingo* for himself, commencing design in 1964 and then building her between regular paying work at his Norman Creek boatshed. During the 1974 Brisbane floods, as the river waters began to rise, his team worked flat out to get her unfinished hull caulked and out of the shed before the flood waters crushed her against the roof. She was finally launched in 1979. Fred sold her in 1984 for charter work along the Queensland coast. During her second charter season she famously grounded on a rock at Cape Upstart on a falling tide leaving her high and dry. Fortunately very little damage was done to her tough Ironbark hull and she floated off on the next tide. Flemingo changed hands again in 1988 and continued in the charter business with different owners for the next 11 years, operating mainly on the Queensland coast and as far north as Papua New Guinea. Geoff Davies bought Flemingo in 1999 and in 2000 began a major refit, relaunching her in 2007. John Eastway purchased Flemingo in July 2012 and continues to cruise her extensively on the east coast from Queensland to Tasmania To quote Andrew Harper’s standard reference book “Classic Moreton Bay Cruisers” “Flemingo is an excellent example of what can be achieved when restoring a traditional Moreton Bay cruiser. She offers the convenience of modern layout and equipment while maintaining the traditional values and charm that these individual vessels exhibit” *Fred Fleming named a few of his own boats with puns on his name – apparently he built three boats called “Flemingo” for himself over the years – and of course there’s “Rufred“ a combination of his wife Ruth’s name and of course himself. LOD feet: 50 Hull Timber: Iron Bark Type of Boat: Moreton Bay Cruiser State: New South Wales Built: 1964 – 1979 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 43 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Folly III

Name: Folly III Boat Owner: Stephen Lake Designer: not known Builder: W Holmes Description: She was built after the death of William Holmes in 1925. His son Reginald had taken over the business. Reginald was a colourful character, not only was he involved in boatbuilding, but he also controlled a lucrative smuggling ring using speedboats built at his boat shed to pick up cocaine, cigarettes and other contrabands thrown overboard from ships passing off Sydney Heads. A previous owner believes that Folly III, then know as Sirocco, was involved in some of these transactions due to remnants of bullets found in the transom during repainting. This has never been confirmed. She was trucked to the Gold Coast in 1961 and had numerous owners in the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane. In 1977 she was painted black and used in the film ‘Love In Ambush’ starring Sigrid Thornton and Gary Sweet, which was filmed off Stradbroke Island. We bought her in 2016 and after spending 2 weeks on board attending the Classic Boat Regatta at Bribie Island discovered that she was in a worse state than the survey revealed. Major repairs and total refurbishment were carried out taking 18 months to complete. The hull was stripped back to bare timber; rotten timber was cut out and replaced. The original chalking was raked out and filled with epoxy and fibreglass sheathed. The interior was gutted and also stripped back to original timber; any rotten wood was replaced before being saturated in timber preservative. The original timber interior structures were sanded and repainted before being reinstalled, leaving the boat true to its original 1920’s period. In December 2017 she was launched and cruised back to Sydney. She spent New Years Eve, watching the fireworks, anchored off Lavender Bay, her original birthplace. No matter where she is, tied up in a marina or at anchor in a bay somewhere, there is always someone that comes up to us to tell us how beautiful she is. A previous owner said ‘that I feel like I have Elle McPherson on my arm every time I take her out.’ She is true classic wooden boat of which very few examples of her style still exist. LOD feet: 31 ull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Traditional Cabin Cruiser State: New South Wales Built: c 1928 Freyja

Name: Freyja Boat Owner: Living Boat Trust Designer: Iain Oughtred Builder: Grant Drummond & others Description: This boat is part of the Tawe Nunnugah Fleet, rowed 100 nautical miles from Recherche Bay to the Festival. It is a fine example of the St Ayles skiff, a design intended to be built and used by community groups which has been extraordinarily successful in its native Scotland and which is steadily gaining traction in Australia. LODPage 44 feet: 22 Hull Timber: Plywood Type Classic of Yacht Boat: Association St Ayles Skiffof Australia State: Tasmania Built: 2016 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Friendly Light

Name: Friendly Light Boat Owner: Angus & Lyn Hughes Designer: Lyle Hess Builder: Laurie Jenkins Description: Sister ship to the Pardey’s Taleisin, which has made several world circumnavigations. Lin & Larry came aboard at the AWBF and we could not decide whose vessel was launched first in ’83. Brion Toss in “Riggers Apprentice” describes the rig as almost perfect. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: QLD White Beech Type of Boat: Falmouth Cutter State: Victoria Built: 1983

Galadriel

Name: Galadriel Boat Owner: Kevin Hussey Designer: Len Randell Builder: Kevin Hussey Description: A Blythe Spirit design built over 37 years (1976 – 2013) using the best available materials and appropriate professional help. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Huon Pine – Carvel – Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 2013

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Name: Geni Boat Owner: Robert Thompson Designer: Max Creese & Len Randall Builder: Darrell Wridgeway Description: Big Chip was launched at Montrose Bay in Hobart on 23/12/1982. Built by Darrel Ridgeway for his father, Ian Ridgeway, to a Max Creese/Len Randell design she was his ultimate fishing launch. She was berthed in Newtown Bay for 18 years, regularly used by the family for fishing and game fishing trips. Competed in cruiser racing at Sandy Bay and Hobart regatta’s regularly winning the prized case of champagne. Originally powered by a TV8-510 Perkins turbo V8 Diesel she had a top speed of 24 knots and comfortable cruise of 15 -18 knots. Her name was then changed to Genioso and she participated in the Wooden Boat Festival of 2003. The next few years saw her used for recreational pursuits by Steve Coad and family. In December 2006 she was purchased by Rob & Anne Thompson and her name shortened to Geni. The engine was replaced by a Yanmar 4LHA and small design modifications undertaken, eg: installation of shower, replaced ice box with refrigerator, replaced tackle locker with additional storage and slide-out table. Rob & Anne live on the Huon River and delight in recreational boating regularly. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Fishing Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1982 Georges Bay

Georges Bay Name: Georges Bay Boat Owner: Bob Cleary Description: Built by the Dood and brother John Pike.The Pike brothers built several boats including Wavecrest Bonnie Rose and Rockaway. The Pike’s spent time building boats with Ned Jack and I guess the design is an evolution of earlier sail dependant fishing boats. Georges Bay has worked hard in her life and is reputed to have worn out two Gardner diesels and is currently powered by a 150 hp Iveco, she went out of survey about 8 years ago and a trunk cabin installed above the original well area. The well was removed by Garry Sward while she was still fishing and a tank installed while fishing Bass Strait. Purchased 14 months ago and I have worked at turning her into an off-shore sailing fishing boat. During the last year she has travelled 200 miles in Tasmanian costal waters. The ketch rig was installed only a short time ago and the boat is very much a work in progress. LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Converted Cray Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1965 Page 46 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Geronimo

Geronimo Boat Owner: Bruce Jessup Designer: John Georgalas Builder: C9 Marin

Gloria of Hobart

Gloria of Hobart Name: Gloria of Hobart Boat Owner: Anatoli & Josephine Jaworsky Designer: L F Herreshoff Builder: Wilson Brothers Description: Through passionate attention to detail, while being faithful to the original drawings, decades of perseverance led to the creation of this elegant modern build of L. Francis Herreshoff’s Mobjack, design # 63 of 1935. Built with the highest integrity by Wilson Brothers of Cygnet, the plans were updated to discretely incorporate modern amenities in a cold-molded hull, also, to subtlety up-rate the original specifications for local conditions. Maintaining the genius of L. Francis Herreshoffs design took much trial and error but the result is a clean, classic profile with the original artistry. Gloria was built to incorporate wherever possible, original design LFH bronze fittings and fastenings, most crafted locally. Under sail Gloria is a joy and easily handled. The quiet resonance of wind and water heard through her wooden hull and masts is a particular joy. After many years in the water, the quality of the construction ensures only the smell of the Tasmanian timbers below, which is an ongoing pleasure for the owners. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 2006 Goblin

Name: Goblin Boat Owner: Philip S Myer Designer: A C Barber & Percy Douglas Builder: A W Cuthbertson Description: Goblin is one of a number of Derwent Class yachts built by A W Cuthbertson after the war and was keenly raced on the Derwent in the 1950’s and 60’s. She was run over and sunk by a Derwent Ferry in the 1950’s- fortunately no injuries. Goblin was purchased by Philip Myer in 2015 and fully restored and re rigged by boat builder Dave Golding of Glen Huon. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Derwent class sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1948 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 47 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Goolara

Name: Goolara Boat Owner: Blakes Marine Designer: Maritime Services Board Builder: MSB Description: Ex pilot cutter, sister to Girralong. Converted to a Passagemaker 1996/2004.

LOD feet: 63 ull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Passage Maker State: New South Wales Built: 1958

Gracie

Name: Gracie Boat Owner: M & G Earnshaw Designer: Norman Cross Builder: Gordon Kemp Description: Gracie is a great example of Norman Cross’s classic trimaran designs and very rarely seen in Australia. Built in the famous Cal Custom Boatyard in LA by renowned builder Gordon Kemp. She sails beautifully and the cold moulded hulls not only give her lovely lines that are very pleasing to the eye but leave very little wake even while cruising at a gentle 12-13 kn. While not “traditional” in a European sense, the trimaran is a wonderful link to the history of sailing the Pacific and certainly a testament to the value of wood as a material. Gracie would be wonderful local addition to the festival while bringing a rich US/Pacific heritage. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Mahogany Type of Boat: Cruising Trimaran State: Tasmania Built: 1976

Page 48 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Granuaile

Name: Granuaile Boat Owner: Steven English Description: You wouldn’t know where to start with this Irish Pirate Queen Granuaile. The largest boat launched in Dublin Bay 1905 – she arrived in two parts to Dublin Bay Yacht Club and we have the press article. Designed by respected boatbuilder James Edward Doyle who was renown for his Colleen Class – this was his last boat and showpiece. She has won transatlantic races, rescued our troops from Dunkirk and has chartered the West Coast of Tasmania and her story of how she got to Tasmania is extraordinary in itself and we have the logbook. Originally shown at a boat show in the mid 1980s as the Wraith of Hamble by Trev and Meg Norton and has history with Rob Sweeney, our recently departed craftsman, as well as many other amazing Tasmanian characters. We are hoping to arrange a reunion of all those associated with her history at this years festival. LOD feet: 48 Hull Timber: Teak Type of Boat: Sloop Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1905

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Name: Gullwing Boat Owner: Andrew Skinner Designer: Jack Pompei Builder: Pompei Bros Description: In 1975 Robert Lane, (of Lane’s Motors fame) who held the Mercedes Benz franchise for Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia, commissioned Jack Pompei Boats of Mordialloc to build him a 36 motor launch for use principally as a day boat at Portsea near his beach house. Naturally the boat had a Mercedes Benz marine diesel engine fitted. Pompei Bros at that time were one of Port Phillip’s most prolific builders of wooden boats. After many years of great enjoyment the boat was sold to interests in Gippsland and the boat eventually fell into disrepair down there and in 2015 was purchased by Tim Phillips at the Wooden Boat Shop in Sorrento as a restoration project. In mid 2016, I took on the project with Tim to have her restored. We wanted to bring the boat into contemporary times but maintain the classic Pompei lines that made her look so beautiful. We stripped her back to bare hull and rebuilt her completely from the hull up, with a practical cabin-top which has slightly more round in it than the traditional Pompei cabin but respects the hull lines and boat sheer. She is fitted simply but with modern taste, a new Yanmar 110hp diesel, head, galley, sleeping quarters, hot & cold running water and practical instruments and electronics. She is being launched mid 2018 and we hope the first time we will truly show her off is at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in February 2019 in Hobart We’ve given her a new registration number too C198. 198 being the prototype number at the Mercedes Benz factory in Germany assigned to the famous prototype Gullwing motor vehicle The owner intends to take her to Hobart for the Festival on her maiden crossing of Bass Strait. Andrew Skinner, owner LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon & King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Launch/Picnic Boat State: Victoria Built: 1975

Page 50 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Gwynne B

Name: Gwynne B Boat Owner: Arthur Lazarou Description: We purchased the boat only 12 months ago from Eddie Storer who has performed most of the work on her so far. The boat is now moored in Adventure Bay and used recreationally. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1966

Gypsy

Name: Gypsy Boat Owner: Steve Knight Designer: Walter Reeks/adapted Alfred Blore Builder: Wyn Tatnell & William Ball Description: Gypsy is an original example of a pre – World War 1 yacht; designed by Walter Reeks & adapted by Alfred Blore. She has never been altered. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Yawl tate: Tasmania Built: 1914

Heather Belle

Name: Heather Belle Boat Owner: Andrew Wilson Designer: Lyle Hess Builder: Andrew Wilson Description: The plans used to build Heather Belle showed a Marconi cutter rig, however I preferred the alternate gaff cutter rig derived from the original concept boat “Renegade”. I was attracted to the traditional character of the gaff rig, which traces back to the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter type on which the Hess design was based. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: Nyatoh Type of Boat: Gaff Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1990 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 51 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Henry II

Name: Henry II Boat Owner: Alex Jerrim Description: Saved from certain death, this little boat was brought back to life by one of our nation’s most respected builders of small boat’s, Ned Trewartha. Like many a restoration, the enormity of her problems soon surfaced. Little remains of the original hull’s 6 planks, half the stem and half of the transom. The original fish-well gave way to a centre-case that sits in a large open cockpit (relatively) that’s framed by a Huon Pine laid deck. Our aim was to create a capable day boat. What eventuated was a small expedition craft. We can go away for up to a week and not step foot on land. Her boom tent and internal layout complement comfortable camp cruising. Her cray boat roots and low centre of effort gaff rig, means she highly stable and able to manage the tough conditions Tassie waters throw at her. Our adventures have included a four-day circumnavigation of Bruny Island, several trips to Recherche Bay, three days across Macquarie Habour up the Franklin and back to Strahan, several trips travelling the length of the Tamar, the same on the Derwent, four days on the Yarra also exploring the Maribyrnong and Williamstown, five days from Hobart to the Lune River, four days Cygnet to Nubeena and return and a five day trip from Cygnet to Coles Bay via the Dunalley Canal. If Festival goers would like to learn more about camp cruising in a small boat, we’d welcome their questions. LOD feet: 13 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Gaff Sloop State: Tasmania Built: c.1950

Page 52 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Hinemoa

Name: Hinemoa Boat Owner: Colin Grazules Designer: Chips Gronfors Builder: Chips Gronfors Description: Hinemoa was designed and built by August Ivar Gronfors AKA “Chips” Gronfors, a nickname he received while working at the Charles Lucas yard in Battery Point in Hobart. In 1925, while working for Charles, Chips Gronfors built the restricted 21ft racing yacht Tassie in 4 weeks. In 1936, Chips Gronfors was again working for Charlie Lucas and was contacted by a Sydney yachtswoman to build a new ocean-going yacht. When Chips insisted that it would be best built here in Hobart, Amber Merle Grey said she wanted it built in NSW so she could watch the construction. Chips returned to Newcastle in 1937 and built Ambermerle for Amber Merle Grey. Ambermerle was later purchased by John Colquhoun and competed in the 1945 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and was placed second on handicap to Captain Illingworth’s Rani. That same year, Chips designed and built Hinemoa for Newcastle optometrist Clem Walsh. Clem wanted a fast Cruiser Racer for Lake Macquarie that would be based at the Lake Macquarie Yacht Club. Chips used his knowledge of racing yachts from Tasmania and the Mullet Boats he had seen in New Zealand to design Hinemoa. Taking the underwater profile and bolt on keel of the Tasmanian One designs and the short ended Mullet Boats of New Zealand, Chips designed what was described by the local press of the time as “a new type of fast cruiser of light displacement” . Hinemoa won her first major race, The Oughton Trophy, in 1938 with Clem Walsh at the helm. Hinemoa spent until 1954 in Lake Macquarie under different owners. Clem Walsh eventually sold her to Major Ivins. Hinemoa was sold to Nelson Rundle in 1953. In 1954, Nelson sold Hinemoa to Leo Reilly of Sydney where over many years she competed successfully under the bargee of the Middle Harbour Yacht Club. In the late 1960’s Hinemoa was found derelict in Qld by Mrs Ann Wollcott and taken to Cabbage Creek in Brisbane, where Ann and her husband spent a year rebuilding her for an intended Coral Sea cruise. On arriving in Cairns the Wollcott’s decided that Hinemoa was not suitable for ocean passages and sold her. Somehow Hinemoa found her way back from Cairns and ended up in the Gippsland Lakes. In 1989, Hinemoa was taken to Melbourne and restored by her current owner and in 2007 after a successful Bass Strait crossing attended her first AWBF. Since 2011 Hinemoa has been based in Cygnet Tasmania a place I believe her builder would have very much approved of. LOD feet: 35 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1937

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 53 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Hirondelle

Name: Hirondelle Boat Owner: Doug Fuglsang Designer: Francis Herreshoff Builder: Cecil Cartledge Description: Excellent example of later H28 with 2007 Charles Ritchie refit and recent topsides work and new covers. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1973 HMB Endeavour

Name: HMB Endeavour Boat Owner: Australian National Maritime Museum Designer: MMD Naval Architects Builder: HMB Endeavour Foundation Description: World renown replica of Captain James Cook’s ship of science. Explored the east coast of Australia in 1770. LOD feet: 108 Hull Timber: Oregan & Jarrah Type of Boat: Tall Ship State: New South Wales Built: 1984 Hop the Wag

Name: Hop the Wag Boat Owner: Martin Riddle and Deb van Velzen Designer: Matt Newland Builder: Swallow Boats Description: Traditional looks conceal a clever modern design. Loading 300kg of water-ballast transforms her from sprightly performer to self-righting family boat. LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: ketch State: Tasmania Built: 2008 Page 54 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Huon

Name: Huon Boat Owner: Bruce Jessup Designer: John Georgalas Builder: C9 Marine Description: SL Huon built by C9 Marine Launceston Tasmania, designed by John Georgalas of Melbourne. York Compound Engine, engineered by Charles Singleton of Westbury, Tasmania. Fire tube boiler engineered by Strath Steam of Goolwa, SA. LOD feet: 24Hull Timber: Huon Pine & Blackwood Type of Boat: Steam Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2006

Huon Hunter

Name: Huon Hunter Boat Owner: Kevin & Lyn Ackroyd Designer: J. M. Piersy Builder: J.M. Piersy Description: In October 1996, as a retirement project, I purchased the Huon Hunter from Mr. William H. Ladd who was based in Queensland. He used it extensively for cruising particularly along the eastern seaboard of the mainland and successfully competing in several navigation trials. He also owned the Tasmanian built Derwent Hunter which was run by his son as a Whitsunday charter sailing vessel When I purchased the Huon Hunter she was in a very run-down condition. I stripped her complete hull, cabin and decks to bare wood. I replaced the deck with new marine ply and fibreglass. The cabin is now varnished, top- sides white, boot-top blue and red anti-fouling. After the failure of the existing engine I had a fully rebuilt 120 HP. Ford Lehman diesel engine installed by well known shipwright Mr. Ray Kemp of Woodbridge, Tasmania. After 22 years the interior restoration is almost completed. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Launch: Gentlemans Motor Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1955

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 55 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Hurrica-V

Name: Hurrica-V Boat Owner: Annabel & Steve Gunns Designer: Charles Nicholson Builder: WM Ford & Norman Wrights Description: Hurrica V is a classic English gentleman’s sailing yacht, born in the glamour of the Edwardian era of March 1924. As a sizable and significant yacht of its period, Hurrica V was a triple- headed gaff auxiliary ketch to the design of the esteemed Charles E Nicholson, built in Sydney by Australia’s premier boatyard W M Ford. She was launched for wealthy wool pastoralist of Melbourne, William Oliver, with splendid maintenance by three live-aboard paid hands. Hurrica V was the feature yacht at the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria until 1938. The elegant hull has graceful lines now rarely drawn – a long continuous keel with a well-proportioned form, and is the founding of a capable and sea-kindly yacht. Characteristic of the period, Hurrica V’s harmonious sheer ends in pronounced overhangs at a spoon bow, and counter stern with retrouse transom. With 80 hard years behind, weathering two cyclones, a beaching, years of tropic war service and considerable neglect, a much-needed bare shell restoration was carried out by Australia’s now premier boatyard Norman R Wrights & Sons of Brisbane. Hurrica V’s hull of Browns Pine on Spotted Gum hardwood frame is now in better and stronger condition than new. Styling and craftsmanship of varnished Mahogany deck house and butterfly skylights adorn the deck, retaining the style and allure of a bygone era. While respecting her past, Hurrica V has been restored to be sailed again with carefully concealed and flawlessly incorporated systems and subtle modern amenities for practical living on deck and below. Hurrica V now superbly fitted, can be easily managed as a private yacht without paid hands. With robust construction and now converted from gaff to a bermudan rig (based on a 1923 Nicholson profile), berths for 8 and 2 bathrooms, Hurrica V can operate for corporate work, or more aptly as a unique private yacht as she was first built. Attention to detail in this restoration has been taken to very high levels, and the result is a structure, systems and finish that is equal to the very best. After the restoration, Hurrica V returned to her home port at Newport Sydney in early 2011. She has since proven herself as a bona fide yacht with recent double crossings of the notorious Bass Strait to Hobart (with a maximum pace of 11.6 knots), and a recent 4000 km voyage to Australia’s Hamilton Island to attend Race Week. No race was won but Hurrica won the Concourse de Elegance. LOD feet: 60 Hull Timber: Carvel Type of Boat: Ketch State: New South Wales Built: 1924/2011

Page 56 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Imagine

Name: Imagine Boat Owner: Living Boat Trust Designer: Ian Oughtred Builder: Women on Water & Peter Laidlaw Description: Imagine was completed by the Women on the Water (WOW) just in time to participate in the 2013 Tawe Nunnugah Raid, one hundred nautical miles of open water rowing along the Tasmanian south east coast. Since then she has been by far the most used boat at the Living Boat Trust at her home on the Huon. Her success has prompted the building of many other skiffs in Australasia, which participate in regattas, excursions and expeditions, and the organisation of a national Skiff association. LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: St Ayles Skiff State: Tasmania Built: 2012

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 57 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Indi

Name: Indi Boat Owner: Graham & Reuben Kent Designer: Colin Archer inspired William Atkin design Builder: Lackington Bros – hull only. Alex Finlay Description: Long-time favourite at Hobsons Bay Yacht Club (HBYC) Indi sits alongside Ferguson Street pier entertaining with temptations to pack up & sail away. In 2013 we took ownership from the Finlay family who understood she was coming into skilful hands for a restoration to her former glory. After a lot of painstaking work we are chuffed with how she looks and sails. Built to the William Atkin, Ingrid design inspired by the great Colin Archer north-sea double ended rescue boats of the early 1900’s. The keel was laid and hull constructed by Lackington Brothers Port, Melbourne between 1948 & 1951. She was carefully fitted out by young engineer Alex Finlay and in 1957 Indi was trucked to HBYC and launched the dream of sailing the world. Family intervened and Indi has instead sailed waters of SE Australia & New Zealand. When shipwright & budding naval architect Reuben Kent and dad Graham came along, Indi needed an overhaul. We stripped her out, replaced garboards, floors, ribs to the waterline, engine and all systems. To get off the hardstand we worked round the clock while Reuben took odd jobs in the boat yard and restoring tall ship Alma Dopel, while Graham enjoyed long service leave. The restoration philosophy was to be faithful to tradition maintaining original curved panelling style, varnished openings and the honest yacht look. Unique to Indi is Alex’s program of continuous improvements. We honoured this by evaluating each and modernising without compromising heritage. Modifications include a fridge and a composting toilet. Alex’s son Ross remains involved, popping in to check on progress, helping out and keeping his chief deck oiler status. New floors are recycled Red Gum, new engine beds are timber salvaged off the Ferguson St. Pier. Old Blackwood ribs were replaced with Tasmanian Celery Top also used for new benches, lockers & drawers. The Leyland motor 2nd hand in 1975 was replaced with a smooth running new Yanmar 54 hp. Indi’s fourth engine! We stripped old fibre glass off the spruce rig and rebuilt the box section masts with recycled Canadian Douglas Fir (Reuben’s payment for rebuilding a HYBC member’s H28 garboard). We eye spliced new galvanised wire rigging which we parcel and served by hand. Christmas Eve 2017, we had our first sail in almost 2 years to the day. What a feeling! Stories of older members who have sailed aboard Indi are plenty. These, as well as stories of Alex’s special bits and pieces, inspired us to stay true to the original and traditional. After all the work it’s nice to stand on the old boat’s original Celery Top deck and know she’s as strong as ever. HBYC members have remarked that Reuben must have used every bit of knowledge gained through his apprenticeship & shipwright skills learnt at the Sorrento Wooden Boat Shop under the guidance of Tim Phillips. Here he learnt his trade in an environment seldom seen today, building and sailing Couta boats the real way. LOD feet: 37 Hull Timber: Island Kauri & dead wood – Jarrah Type of Boat: Classic custom ketch State: VictoriaPage 58 Built: 1957 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Inga

Name: Inga Boat Owner: Noel & Marijke Addison Designer: Noel Addison Builder: Noel Addison & Andrew Notenboom Description: Inga is an unusual trailer sailer, especially for a boat built in the early 1970’s. The hull and cabin are cold moulded from King Billy Pine, with the deck and fitout from (mainly) Queensland Maple ply. The only fiberglass used is sheathing the Cedar cored rudder foil. The exterior is sheathed with dynel to improve the epoxy resin sealing. Epoxy resin was used throughout the process for glueing and laminating. The round bilged hull form is very easily driven, with a narrow waterline and wide beam at the deck. Whilst the initial hull stability is low, this is more than compensated for by a heavy pivoting retractable high-aspect NACA foil keel which automatically locks down when she begins to heel. The 1.6m draft is deep for a boat only 5.5m long, but it makes for a very high self-righting moment and very good upwind performance. She has been raced extensively, winning DSS, Bellerive and Austins Ferry pennants, several state championships, as well as an Interstate Challenge held on Lake Burley Griffin in 1976. She competed in the huge (220 starters) 2018 Marlay Point Overnight Race finishing 25th out of 80 in her classification after being caught in a glassout a few miles from the finish. This was despite her comparatively heavy displacement (1 tonne) and small sail area (15 square metres working sail and no spinnaker). She was designed to be a safe Derwent and Channel cruising boat for our then-young family. There were not any designs available for trailer sailers except for centreboarders such as the Hartley TS16, which I had already raced successfully for a couple of seasons. We needed a keel ballasted boat, so I had to design our own. Easy to sail was another criterion, so the fractional rig, keel and rudder foils were carefully designed for efficiency. The keel and rudder are accurate NACA foils, rare on yachts in those days. She also had to be tough and low-maintenance, so heat-cured epoxy and high-tech urethane finishes were used. The deck and cabin still have the original finish applied in 1974. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Trailer Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1975

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 59 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Intrepid

Name: Intrepid Boat Owner: Edwin Lang Designer: Horace M Tate Builder: Horace M Tate Description: Intrepid celebrates nearly a century of day sailing on the Derwent Estuary. It is a unique B class yacht, built by Horace M Tate with the help of his wife in Bellerive here in Tasmania in 1922. It is one of a succession of competitive ocean and estuary racing yachts, which Horace and his wife built between 1910 and 1945. The Governor of Tasmania owned one of his boats Kathleen. Horace, one time the Commodore of the Bellerive Yacht Club, and his wife competed in another of their built yachts Active in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Intrepid’s original sail plans from 1922, courtesy of the Maritime Museum of Tasmania, and an early picture at sail, show that Intrepid was originally gaff rigged. For its time a very fast yacht with two inches of Huon Pine planking keeping her seaworthy despite over 97 years afloat on the Derwent. Horace was a blacksmith by trade. Some of her fittings have, like the timbers, survived the test of time. Intrepid is a stable weighted deep keel boat with lovely lines. Yes you are close to the water in this “wet boat” but sailing her is the fun of the century. You can still catch a glimpse of this wonderful bit of Tasmanian heritage at sail on the Derwent or at its mooring at the top of Lindisfarne Bay. LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Double Parallel Diagonal Carvel Planked Type of Boat: Racing Day-Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1922

Page 60 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Irene

Name: Irene Boat Owner: Peter & Terry Ford Designer: Laurent Giles Builder: Jack Stewart Description: In the early 1960s, Jack Stewart set out to build himself a yacht. He chose the Normandy 28 design by the legendary English Royal Designer, award winner of 1951, Jack Laurent Giles. Jack Stewart had never built a boat himself, but over the years he had helped several other people to build theirs. He was therefore quite an experienced builder. Jack personally felled the Ironbark tree in the forest in the Otway Ranges. He then let the log soak for six months in seawater, under the pier at Geelong, before starting to shape it. He built the frames of Spotted Gum and planked the carvel hull in New Zealand Kauri. He laid the pine deck over a base of marine plywood. The hollow mast was built of fine-grained Oregon by a leading mast-builder of the day. Jack fabricated most of the fittings himself. It took about seven years of painstaking work before the boat was launched at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club in, 1969. Jack Stewart named his new boat after his wife, Irene. All subsequent owners have retained the name. Irene has been dearly loved by all her owners, Jack Stewart wished he never sold her, later owner Geoff Braybrook wanted to buy her back! Irene has visited Tasmania on many occasions including a couple of circumnavigations. Her first visit to the Wooden Boat Festival was in 200 and she attended the 2005 and 2017 festivals. Irene has cruised the East Coast extensively including far North Queensland. Here is an excerpt from her 1997 Tasmanian circumnavigation by her then Owner Miles Maxwell Pete and I sailed to Hobart by the West Coast route. Though not the longest trip I ever made, it was by far the most adventurous. We sheltered in the Bathurst Channel during a fearful westerly storm that lasted the best part of a week. When we finally dared to stick our nose out, we had to motor over the huge swells that rolled into Port Davey. There was no wind in the troughs! Not long after rounding South-West Cape, we were caught in another westerly gale. The autopilot was completely overwhelmed by the seas coming up from astern. The night was pitch black, and the noise of the surf breaking on the rocks seemed terrifyingly close. We could neither see where we were going nor could we steer to avoid the following seas. The cockpit was full of water from breaking wave-tops. Trying to steer by compass, we were yawing through 120º. By some mysterious chance, when I found a moment to check the GPS, we were exactly at the point where I had planned to turn northwards to sail up the East Coast. May God bless all those who design and build GPS units.

LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri TypeClassic of Boat: Yacht Sloop Association State: of Victoria Australia Built: 1968 Page 61 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Island Star

Name: Island Star Boat Owner: David Weir Designer: not known Builder: Merv Kroll Description: Island Star was converted from a ferry to a fishing boat by George Nicholson and used as a fishing boat. She was later sold to Michael Burrows, Bernard Wilson, and Phil Pyke, these owners all used her for fishing. She was again sold to Ray Batt who kept her as a fishing boat but used her for pleasure purposes. She has recently been acquired by David Weir who has had the well removed and is presently having her fitted out as a pleasure vessel. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Jarrah Type of Boat: Motor Sailer, ex Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1967

Island Vertue

Island Vertue Name: Island Vertue Boat Owner: Michael Vaughan Designer: Laurent Giles. Builder: Dennis Lees Description: Island Vertue is a Vertue Class yacht which is one of the most capable and beautiful pocket cruisers ever built. The Vertue Class is seen as one of the legendary Laurent Giles designs. “Ivy” is one of about 300 Vertues ever built. She was built and launched by Dennis Lees of Hobart and sailed by him and his family locally until his son Andrew took her to Perth. “Ivy” ? cruised the Western Australia coast extensively before returning to Perth where she was purchased by Phil Edwards. After sailing locally in Perth for a few years, she retuned to Hobart in 2010 and has sailed locally here since. Island Vertue is the perfect small cruising yacht for Tasmania, being sea-kindly and extremely capable. She is a pleasure to sail, a pleasure to look at and a pleasure to be aboard. What more could a skipper ask for? LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Western Red Cedar Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 2000 Page 62 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Islander

Name: Islander Boat Owner: Peter & Jenny Makepeace Designer: Max Creese Builder: Geoff Cuthbertson Description: Islander has been much travelled, having crossed Bass Strait several times. It was previously owned by John Wignall then purchased by Don McLagan. Peter and Jenny Makepeace bought Islander from Bill Reid in November 2017. It has been repainted inside and out. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1963

Islander 2

Name: Islander 2 Boat Owner: Nick & Dave Connor & Greg Davoren Designer: Max Creese Builder: Geoff Cuthbertson Description: Launched on 17 February 1968 at Cuthbertsons boatyard at the Montagu Bay, Islander 2 was commissioned as a private fishing boat by Hobart businessman John Wignall and remained in Tasmania with only three owners until 2014 when it was sold to Queensland. The current owners bought the boat in 2016 and have returned her home to Hobart where external refurbishment works have been completed. Designed by Max Creese, famous for many of Tasman’s wooden cray fishing boats, Islander 2 brings together the unique mix of the quintessential Tasmanian fishing boat and private pilothouse motorsailer. Built to last, Islander 2 has a round bilged hull form strip planked in 25mm thick Huon Pine over triple laminated 45mm x 50mm Huon Pine ribs set at 235mm centres. The hull is additionally reinforced with 125mm x 50mm bilge stringers with a 115mm x 45mm deck shelf forward and a 75mm x 38mm cockpit deck shelf. The solid wood keel floors are 75mm thick and are set at 350mm centres through which the bronze keel bolts are fastened. The laminated ribs are copper nailed and clenched whilst the bilge stringers, deck shelf and shear clamp are copper nailed and roved. Recent extensive external refurbishment now sees Islander 2 in mint showroom condition. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1968

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 63 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Iverus

Name: Iverus Boat Owner: James Butler Designer: Jock Muir Builder: Alan Ranahan Description: Iverus is regularly used around Tasmania’s inshore and coastal waterways. She is enjoyed by a young family and Maurice the Mini Schnauzer. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1991

J-Lee-M

Name: J-Lee-M Boat Owner: Alan Morrison Designer: Max Creese Builder: Jim Jones & Jock Muir Description: J-Lee-M has always been in the Morrison family, who used to harvest Huon Pine from the Gordon River and tributaries for boat building all over the world. LOD feet: 64 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1953 Page 64 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Jacaranda

Name: Jacaranda Boat Owner: Marc Hundleby Designer: Don Muir Builder: Jack & Ray Griggs Description: Jacaranda is a one off, Don Muir designed, converted Tasmanian fishing vessel. She was built between 1958 and 1960 in Tasmania for use by her builders, the Griggs brothers. She is a superb example of a motor launch used for couta fishing in the region, and is a contrast to the well- known sailing couta boats from Victoria. She was used for couta fishing in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel area to the south of Hobart. In 1963 she went north to the Tasman Peninsula and fished for tuna out of Pirates Bay for many years, owned by Toby Lyell and then Alf Gough. All Previous Owners: Jack and Ray Griggs , Toby Lyell, Alf Gough, Eileen Kennedy, Kelvin Cruises, Geoff Anderson, Geoff Darcy, Ron Massie and David and Sharon Powell. She is registered as an Australian Historical Vessel (HV000559), she has classic lines, has been fastidiously cared for and always draws much attention and comments from passers by. Stunning varnished Australian Red Cedar coachouse, fwd hatch & toe-rails along with a superb internal fitout by Tasmanian shipwright Ron Crawford in Birdseye Huon Pine, Fiddle-back Myrtle and Australian Cedar. Jacaranda has always remained in Tasmania. She is now used as a private vessel with a larger wheelhouse and cabin arrangement. The craft has retained the mast that it was built with, but a furling jib and mainsail are now incorporated making her a small motor-sailer. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: c1960

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 65 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart James Craig

Name: James Craig Boat Owner: Sydney Heritage Fleet Designer: Unknown Builder: Bartram, Haswell & Co Description: She is a true restoration, not a replica. In 2003, she was awarded the World Ship Trust’s, International Maritime Heritage Medal for authentic restoration. She joins a select band of restored ships throughout the world. In 1900, she was purchased by Mr J J Craig of Auckland, New Zealand, who used her on trans-Tasman trade routes as a general cargo carrier. In 1911 she was laid up because increasing competition from steam ships made sailing vessels uneconomical. She was then stripped and used as a copra hulk in New Guinea. After the First World War there was an acute shortage of cargo ships and she was bought by the well-known Australian jam manufacturer, Henry Jones IXL. This gave James Craig a new lease of life after being towed from New Guinea to Sydney for re-fitting. Her return to service was brief because in 1925 she was reduced to a coal hulk at Recherche Bay, Tasmania. In 1932 she was abandoned and became beached after breaking her moorings in a storm. She remained beached until 1972 when volunteers from the Sydney Heritage Fleet re-floated her. In 1973 she was towed to Hobart where temporary repairs were carried out. She was towed to Sydney in 1981 and restoration work commenced. James Craig’s restored hull was re-launched in February 1997. There are only four operational barques from the 19th Century still capable of sailing, Star of India in San Diego, California, (launched 1863), James Craig in Sydney (1874), Elissa in Galveston, Texas, (1877) and Belem in France (1896). Of these, James Craig is the only one in the Southern Hemisphere, and is the only of the four which regularly carries members of the general public to sea. Though her days of sailing around Cape Horn are probably over, she has 23 roundings to her credit. James Craig – Website link LOD feet: 192 Hull Timber: Iron/Steel plated Type of Boat: Tall Ship State: New South Wales Built: 1874 Jane

Name: Jane Boat Owner: Christopher Sinn Designer: Ken Lacco & Tim Phillips Builder: The Wooden Boat Shop Description: This unique boat designed by Ken Lacco and built by Tim Phillips at the Wooden Boat Shop, mimics the lines of the couta boats with a sprung keel. It was built in the traditional manner with steam bent ribs and has proved to be very comfortable and seaworthy under both motor and sail. It is rigged as a gaff rigger cutter with sails by Doyle, using only wooden blocks and traditional three strand rope, there is not need for winches on this boat! The standing rigging is state of the art dyneema which has been spliced and served with tared twine. The boat is fitted out with with a Wallace diesel stove and hot plate, continuous running fridge, hot water, inverter, genset and Sardine wood fired stove. There is an extensive library along with Simrad navigation systems. There is accomodation for up seven people with an ideal cruising crew of four. The pilot house provides protection from the elements in all weather with the aft cockpit being self draining. The Jane has a 1000nm range thanks to the 860 fuel and water tanks and the economic 110 hp Yanmar motor. LODPage 66 feet: 40 Hull Timber: Cedratta Type Classic of Yacht Boat: Association Gaff Rigged of Australia Cutter State: Victoria Built: 2013 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Jane Kerr

Name: Jane Kerr Boat Owner: Tim & Sally Phillips Designer: Ken Lacco Builder: Garry Stewart Description: Jane Kerr is one of the very last commercial timber fishing vessels launched. Built for Garry and Judy Kerr she was used for cray-fishing off Victoria and Tasmania for 20 years. Her current owners have retained her original fishing boat configuration, including an open wet well for holding live crayfish. With her ketch rig, traditional lines and varnished Huon pine transom she is admired wherever she sails. LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Huon pine Type of Boat: Fishing ketch State: Victoria Built: 1981

Janus

Name: Janus Boat Owner: Oliver McKay Designer: Percy C. Douglas Builder: J. Bridge Description: Janus D12 – a Derwent Class yacht, was designed and built specifically for racing on the River Derwent. LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Derwent Class State: Tasmania Built: 1946

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 67 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Jenny VII

Name: Jenny VII Boat Owner: Ian Wright Designer: Norman Wright Jnr Builder: Norman Wright Jnr Description: Jenny VII was built by Norman Wright Junior for himself. His father Norman senior started the boat building business that still exists today and will be 110 years in 2019 . Jenny resembles a 1950’s 18 foot skiff in hull form. Norman junior in the earlier Jennys won the Australian 18 footer championship 5 times and the World Championship once. He also navigated Gretel and Dame Pattie in the Americas Cup and won the Australian Dragon Championship in 1976 before retiring from competitive sailing . Jenny was built out of cold molded Maple plywood over Silver Ash and Oregon stringers and Maple laminated frames. Deck and original cabin top were plywood. The rig was one of Norms old Dragon rigs modified to suit . He was in his mid seventies when he built Jenny. She was built for his own use, taking his grandchildren sailing. She was kept on a mooring in the Mooloolabah river. She was sold just before his death in 1996 to new owners at Nudgee beach and was kept afloat on a mooring and used for cruising Moreton Bay . I was out cruising with my sea kayaking partner on my converted Diamond Saltash. She kept saying how nice it would be to have a boat that could go in shallow water and on the beach like her kayak. Said she knew where my uncles boat was, we had lost track of it ! She lived at Nudgee beach so knew the owners. They had sold their house there 7 years earlier and moved west of Brisbane. We found Jenny there in a dry shed but with barnacles still on her bottom! I owned her a few days later. Being Norm’s nephew he would have been very happy. I then did a 2 year refit. Kept the hull, foredeck, centerboard and cockpit footwell. We designed and built a new wider more modern and more practical doghouse and layout. Fitted a new diesel engine, fridge, heater, bathroom’ including toilet and black water treatment system. Replaced the rig with a new carbon swept spreader rig and sails and added a range of downwind sails. Also plenty of wine storage! Set her up for cruising and living aboard for extended holidays . In 2010, after initial shakedown on Moreton Bay, we did a 3 week cruise in the Whitsundays. Then a trip to Tasmania for 10 days cruising in Macquarie Harbour followed by a few weeks in D’Entrecasteaux Channel before displaying her at the 2011 Wooden Boat Festival. We then packed her up on her trailer and headed home to Brisbane . For the next few years I used her for Moreton Bay cruising and competed in the Bay to Bay trailer boat race inside Fraser Island. We won our division and also a prize for the best wooden boat. I also lived aboard at Manly for 18 months while I was building a new house . We returned to Tasmania again in 2015 for more cruising on the East Coast,then did the Tawe Nunnugah small boat raid followed by the Wooden Boat Festival. We plan to return to Tasmania again in 2019 for the TN19 raid, more cruising and the Wooden Boat Festival. Maybe a visit to Port Davey too. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Queensland Maple Plywood Type of Boat: sloop State: Queensland Built: 1988

Page 68 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Jessica

Name: Jessica Boat Owner: Stephen & Lorraine Woolley Designer: Perc Coverdale Builder: Perc Coverdale Description: It is rather sketchy how long she operated as a commercial fishing boat, however I am led to believe that she sank (swamped) for several months or possibly a year in Pirates Bay. In the early 1990’s, she was raised by a Dunalley fisherman and was moved to Dunalley where she was resurrected. The old 7hp Stuart and Turner petrol engine was replaced with a NTS70 R Yanmar Diesel. She was used for recreational fishing for several years in the Dunalley area and finally a local took care of her on a jetty at Dunalley. She was still an open dinghy which was subject to the elements. I purchased her in 2001 and moved her to the Carlton River where she was used for fishing and cruising the Carlton River for several years. In 2006 she was taken out of the water onto hardstand to install another diesel engine a Yanmar YSE 8, an 8hp electric start diesel. Whilst on hardstand I repaired the hull, blanked the original wet well and built a small cabin on her. She was relaunched and continued to be used on the Carlton River for several years, then in 2013 she was placed on hardstand again for complete refurbishment. This included the burning off of all paint above and below the waterline and removal of floor and burning off all the paint from the interior and removal of the engine to be reconditioned. The interior of the hull was repainted with several coats of marine grade paint. Several floor bearers were replaced and a new Tasmanian Oak floor was installed for the cockpit area and the interior design was laid out. This consisted of a seat bunk and a small gallery with cooker. The original wet well was removed and the Huon Pine was resurrected to be used elsewhere within the boat. Engine bed was rebuilt and the reconditioned engine was re-installed with a Tasmanian Oak engine box. Huon Pine from the wet well was used to construct two midship seats and at the stern is a circular seat that is also Huon Pine. Tasmanian Oak has been used on the foredeck, and a cabin has been constructed from Tasmanian Oak sides and Celery Top Pine top. All timber work has been varnished with several coats of marine varnish. Work that need to be completed to finish the refurbishment is listed below: Gunwales to the fited. Windows to be fitted. Painting of the hull. Fitting of handmade bollards cleats and grabrails for the top of the cabin. Bow rail to be constructed and fitted. Navigation lights, cabin and cockpit lighting. It is planned to have Jessica back in the water for the coming summer and hopefully to participate in the 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival. She will have a berth in the Prince of Wales Bay Marina when back in the water and will cruise the Derwent. LOD feet: 17 Hull Timber: King Billy PineClassic Type Yacht of Boat: Association Motor of Launch Australia State: Tasmania Built: 1953 Page 69 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Jewel

Name: Jewel Boat Owner: Guy & Jenny Vickerman Designer: Dick Tripcony Builder: Dick Tripcony Description: Jewel was built to travel from Scarborough to the city as economically and quickly as possible. She doubled as a weekend fishing boat and was lengthened before the war by 1.5 m to accomodate a crab well. She was not impressed ? by the military for war service as she was probably too lightly built. Her outward appearance has morphed many times as use changed to game fishing boat, trawler (possibly)and live aboard. Essentially the forward cabin and wheelhouse has remained remarkably intact but the lengthening caused the stern to appear to droop. A two year refit required the skill and dedication of many exemplary craftsmen. Thecockpit is a clear departure from tradition and many heated discussions set the tone for the functional result. Sixty six new laminated Quandong ribs, glued nailed and clenched, a complete new foredeck with laminated Oregon deckbeams, Sampson post, Brest hook, knight heads, toe rails bowsprit and bronze stanchions, all covered with serious glass will, barring dramas, keep her together for another eighty years. The wheelhouse is mostly original with windows repaired and rehung. Side curtains which prop out allow for plenty of ventilation. Most fittings are period with the occasional concession to modernity for safety and strength. The paint was lovingly and expertly applied by a direct descendant of the builder. The story has it that Jewel is the only boat the builder repurchased for his own use. We have done our best to keep her as close to her original lines while strengthening her enough for the occasional dash in the big briny. Certainly not for circumnavigating Herd Island in winter! Metho stove, plenty of water and fuel, solar power and shallow draft will allow us to take the family out for trips to most places up and down the coast. LOD feet: 42 Hull Timber: Hoop Pine Type of Boat: Bay boat State: Queensland Built: 1932

Page 70 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Journeyman

Name: Journeyman Boat Owner: Martin Kell Designer: Hugh Angelman Builder: Les Crawford Description: Les Crawford built Journeyman in his suburban backyard but after launching decided it was too short for his needs and built a longer boat to the same design. To fund the new build, Journeyman was sold to his friend Carl Wesson in 1971 who sailed Journeyman extensively with their young family from 1969 till 1992. In 1992 they, with a family friend, crossed the Pacific and did the coconut milk run including New Zealand. Off Lord Howe Island, Journeyman was caught by cyclone Fran and suffered sail damage and engine swamping and was towed to Coffs Harbor for repairs. In 1999, Journeyman was bought by Zed and Fey Frazer who made an extensive refit before they themselves made another coconut milk run. They lived aboard and cruised till they made Tasmania in 2008 when Journeyman was again offered for sale. In 2012, Martin Kell bought Journeyman and while refitting has cruised locally in Southern Tasmania. Journeyman has been found to be a very sea kindly ketch comfortable in Tasmania’s changeable conditions, she sits well at anchor and evokes the romance of traditional sailing with heavily raked masts and lots of varnish, bronze and brass that always attracts attention and kind comment. Below decks the extensive Teak and Mahogany interior is richly varnished and oiled to give a gentlemanly civilized ambiance. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Mohogany Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1969

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 71 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Julie Burgess

Name: Julie Burgess Boat Owner: Devonport City Council Designer: Captain Harry Burgess Builder: E. A. (Ned) Jack Description: The Julie Burgess was originally built as a gaff rigged topsail fishing ketch and was the brain child of Harry Burgess, whose family had pioneered the crayfishing industry in the 1890s. Her design called for a length of 19.5 meters (64ft), and a width of 4.9 meters (16ft), which is considerably wider than the original design for these ships, and a weight of 40 ton. Harry approached Ned Jack’s shipyard in Launceston to build her, but Ned was unwilling to venture from the normal design. Harry finally convinced him, and the ketch named the Julie Burgess, after Harry’s wife, was launched in the Tamar River in 1936. She was built from Blue Gum, Huon Pine and other Tasmanian timbers and some of her original timbers were able to be used in her reconstruction. She contained awet well amidships, where she could hold 4000 crayfish in sea water. With this amount of moveable cargo below deck, the extra width made her extremely stable in the Bass Strait conditions, which due to its average depth being only 25ft, can produce a treacherous sailing environment. The extra width also makes her extremely passenger friendly, and, with thewet well being replaced with a cabin containing sleeping berths, toilets, cooking facilities and other creature comforts, the Julie Burgess is indeed a comfortable ship. She is also fitted with a diesel engine. During her career, she was also used as a trading vessel between Tasmania, Victoria and the Islands, and during WWII she was chartered by the Commonwealth and used to service the Bass Strait undersea cable. In 1988, considerable repairs were carried out on her for the Bicentennial Celebrations and she was sailed to Sydney as a Tall Ship looking very impressive with her 2 masts, carrying 7 sails. She lay idle at her mooring until 2009 when she was purchased by the Devonport City Council, and then restoration work began resulting in this beautiful vessel which you see before you. She was relaunched in 2011 and undertook her first official sail in July 2012. She is crewed by volunteers, most of whom were involved in her restoration. She represents the Devonport community at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart, and in February 2015, won the inaugural Ketch Race on the River Derwent in difficult sailing conditions, and against aggressive competition. She is an amazing vessel, and there is a detailed progressive photographic history of her restoration at the Bass Strait Maritime Centre. LOD feet: 63 Hull Timber: Blue Gum & Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1936

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Juliene

Name: Juliene Boat Owner: Ian Johnston Designer: Bernard Wilson Builder: Bernard Wilson Description: This vessel was used for cray fishing on the South East coast for many years until converted into an all weather cruising vessel. To be updated by Ian authorised by BRONNIE. Had issues with MAC computer.. LOD feet: 33 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Converted Cray Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1979

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 73 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Kalissa Name: Kalissa Boat Owner: Russell & Tracy Dobell-Mobbs Designer: Herreshoff Builder: David Glenn Description: Kalissa is a beautiful example of traditional wooden boat building techniques. She is based on Herreshoff lines and built by master shipwright David Glenn in Manly Queensland from 1982 and launched in 1987. She was built for the shipwright himself and it seems like no expense was spared as the specs are of the highest quality and ratings. She was built using Spotted Gum for the frames with Hoop Pine carvel planking for the hull. The Queensland Beech decks are laid over ply. She has a long keel with external solid lead ballast approx. 2 tonnes. She has a displacement of 8 tonnes. Kalissa is a sleek boat with characteristic details attributed to some very obvious Herreshoff lines, the classic wine glass stern and the gently curving bow that follows through the long keel. The generous and curvaceous cockpit which can seat 5 adults with ease is another of the favourite features of this boat which caught our eye when we first encountered Kalissa when she was for sale in Kettering in 2013. The central binnacle with the main controls and instruments has the crowning feature, the Sestral Major compass in its chrome housing now with it’s original dome back in place. Russell took much pleasure in restoring this instrument, replacing the clear dome and replacing the white spirit. This year during her time out of the water for her anti foul and below water line checks it was decided that it might be good timing for her to have an above water line touch up as well so she now boasts some nice white topsides which have faired reasonably well over these last few weeks of horrendous weather with only some minor bruising to the hull, it could have been a lot worse as we have seen the results of the wild weather around us! Of course, looking her best doesn’t take away from her functionality and of course this boat was designed for cruising, maybe racing? Kalissa is a pleasure to be on board and to sail. Although she has a cruising speed of 6 knots, she can show some good form when the conditions are right and although her hull and narrow beam means that with the slightest breeze she starts to heel, she can be quite balanced and great to handle with two on board. Since the last wooden boat festival we have been to Maria Island via Denison Canal. We sailed down the coast and anchored in Canoe Bay over night and then the best part sailing between Tasman Island and Cape Pillar, past Cape Raoul doing 8 knots and into Nubeena for another overnight rest. Then back to Kettering crossing Storm Bay with more great sailing. This trip outside the confines of “The Channel” and even tripping up to Hobart gave us some valuable insights into how the boat can handle the conditions and how we are able to handle her too! We plan on doing more of these in the future and venturing further with each voyage. We love our boat and enjoy the response she gets from onlookers, visitors and family who come on board for the first time and appreciate her lovely character and personality. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Hoop Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1987

Page 74 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Karalee

Name: Karalee Boat Owner: Ian Hansen Designer: Alan Payne Builder: Morrow Bros Description: Commissioned by Tom Mulhearn of Hunters Hill when Alan was in the drawing office at Cockatoo Island Dockyard in 1947. The design was entered into an International Dream Boat’s competition and gained 3rd prize behind Phillip Rhodes. Ian purchased the yacht from Tom Mulhearn in 1988 and altered her from a harbour racer to an ocean cruising yacht in a 2 year restoration. The yacht has spent it’s entire life on the same mooring at Hunters Hill. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: White Beech Type of Boat: Cutter State: New South Wales Built: 1952

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 75 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Karina

Name: Karina Boat Owner: Ian Crawford Designer: Charlie Peel Builder: Eric Montgomery Description: Karina is a Jubilee Class small yacht understood to have been built at Eric Montgomery’s shed in Footscray, Melbourne, Victoria in 1945, from ‘odds and ends’. The yacht was raffled as first prize by the Royal Brighton Yacht Club as a fundraiser. Karina was won and subsequently launched and sailed by unknown owners. Eric Montgomery became an important builder of yachts and small craft in Victoria after World War II. The 5.5 metre long hull is planked in King Billy Pine on Tea Tree frames. This is an unusual choice of timber for the planking, many of the class were built in Huon Pine or other timbers heavier than King Billy Pine. It has a canvas covered plywood deck and a Spruce mast. The Jubilee Class is a very important Australian one-design class, which remained active in 2008. The class began in the mid 1930s when Charlie Peel was asked to design a simple and inexpensive centreboard yacht for racing and recreational sailing to rebuild Melbourne’s small yacht fleet after a serious gale destroyed a large number of craft on Port Phillip. The class has remained popular in Victoria and Karina is a good example of Peel’s typical wooden construction for the class. Karina’s early history is unknown until Bill and Trish Wright found it in a paddock with ‘grass growing through the hull’ in 1958. They returned it to sailing condition and it raced out of Brighton. In 1973, Karina was sold by the Wrights who lost touch with the boat. In 1988, the Wrights were invited to a ‘burn the boat barbeque” to discover their old boat Karina was to be the barbeque. The Wrights spoiled the fun and rescued the sacrificial Karina and donated it to their newly married daughter and son-in-law. Karina was once again restored. The work began in Melbourne and was finished in Tasmania when the family moved there in 1994. The Shipwrights Point, School of Wooden Boat Building at Franklin, south of Hobart, assisted and displayed Karina as a ‘work in progress’ at the 1994,1996 and 1998 Wooden Boat Festivals in Hobart. She has appeared as a boat afloat ever since, and visited by those that helped restore her. Karina was relaunched for the third time on 1 January, 2001 and in 2008 remained the family’s summertime recreational yacht sailing out of Dover on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. In 2016, the Crawford family became the latest custodians, sailing Karina out of Barnes Bay on Bruny Island. Most recently in 2018, the Spruce mast was restored. It would be a joy to see her featured in the next Wooden Boat Festival. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1945

Page 76 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Kathleen

Name: Kathleen Boat Owner: Michael Ferrall Designer: Dodd Ritchie Builder: Dodd Ritchie Description: Kathleen has spent all her life in Tasmania with various owners including Sir Ivan Holyman, who was the founder of Australian National Airways. Restored by present owner 30 years ago. LOD feet: 20 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Topsail Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1918

Kelpie II

Name: Kelpie II Boat Owner: Peter Laidlaw Designer: Uffa Fox Builder: Wilson’s Description: Kelpie was built by Wilsons in Cygnet for Roger Linnell and his father (local sawmillers) to a design by Uffa Fox – double ended yawl of which only two were built. Roger’s father adapted the design to have a transom. She has been sailing around the Huon for the past 40 years, mostly single handed. She was scrupulously maintained over the years and is still in her original and simple condition. She has recently had a new engine and will continue to sail around the Huon. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1973 Kerrawyn

Name: Kerrawyn Boat Owner: Anastasia Konstantinidis & David Golding Designer: R Beltz Builder: Wilson Bros Description: Ex Tasmanian fishing ketch planked in 2″ Celery Top Pine. Fished for 60 years & participated in ’88 Tallships race,currently being re-fitted for charter. LOD feet: 53 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1949 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 77 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Kiella

Name: Kiella Boat Owner: Ian Snell Designer: Peter Brady Builder: Ian Snell Description: Kiella was specifically designed for Bass Strait cruising. She has cruised the Kimberly and around our islands. LOD feet: 41 Hull Timber: Paulownia Type of Boat: Power cat State: Tasmania Built: 2009

Kookaburra

Name: Kookaburra Boat Owner: Dan Rowe & Jenni McLeod Designer: John Hanna Builder: Fred Rodway Description: This historic little vessel has undertaken an extensive restoration over the past decade and is now cruising in Tasmanian waters. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1936 Koonawarra

Name: Koonawarra Boat Owner: David Bullen Designer: Maurice Griffith Builder: Pompei’s Description: The Koonawarra has undergone a 10 year ground up rebuild after being hauled out in 2004. Current owner completed a 5yr west circumnavigation from 1985-1990. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Kauri Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Victoria Built: 1961

Page 78 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart La Chaloupe

Name: La Chaloupe Boat Owner: Port Esperance Sailing Club Designer: Jack Beazley Builder: Jack Beazley Description: Jack Beazley, a master shipwright from Queenscliff, Victoria, built La Chaloupe in 196, as one of several identical boats designed to carry maritime pilots in Melbourne’s busy Port Phillip Bay. Known to Jack simply as Number 16, she was made from Malaysian Kauri, a timber Jack was not entirely happy to work with, as it tended to rot. These boats were motorised with a 5hp Simplex engine which was freshwater cooled. The cooling pipes were outside the hull and these were then cooled by sea water. The boats were launched from davits on board the ship Wyuna which was stationed outside the rip of Port Phillip Bay. In the late 1970s, “Number 16” was donated to the Devonport Sea Cadets, and this is possibly where she acquired her current name, La Chaloupe. She had several owners over the following years, and eventually ended up as a hulk, resting in the mud of the Esperance River narrows, in far south Tasmania, until she was rescued and restored in 2014 by the fine men and women of the Dover Community Workshop, led by Ron Wells. She has now been bequeathed to the Port Esperance Sailing Club, where she spends her retirement being rowed around the beautiful waters of Dover. LOD feet: 13 Hull Timber: Malaysian Kauri Type of Boat: Rowing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1964

La drone

Name: La drone Boat Owner: Evan Rolley Description: La drone began life on the Tamar River where she won the Tamar Regatta Race in 1948, The Camp Fire race of 1956 and the Examiner 71 mile race in 1957. Helmed by her then owner Arthur Mayne she was well known for her reliable performance on long cruising runs in most conditions. She was restored in the late 1960’s for Derwent River Cruises. From the late 1990’s to 2006 she plied the Tamar River again until we bought her in back south to Kettering in 2008 for major repairs and restoration to begin a new life “in survey” on the Huon River where she operates from the Heriots Point Vineyard taking cruising passengers up the Huon River to Huonville and returns to Castle Forbes Bay LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Motor launch State: Tasmania Built: 1947 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 79 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart La-Sallette Name: La-Sallette Boat Owner: Robert & Kathleen Carins Designer: Unknown Builder: P J Payne Description: The Restoration of La Sallette La Sallette was purchased in July, 2014, after a random sighting of her somewhat faded beauty on the quality boat brokerage site, Gumtree! A recently retired dairy farmer and his two adult sons embarked on a momentous restoration. After bringing her to Launceston and engaging the services of local shipwright, Rudi Dahme, she was totally recaulked, had bilge keels fitted, new bulwarks and wet well plugged. Then, over the next three years, the family extended the wheel house to include a generous saloon, galley and head (with soft close lid). Below deck was converted to accommodation without disturbing the structure. The freezer section was modified into a shower room and laundry/storage area. The focsle was modified to include a double bunk and had the original head removed. A new anchor locker was also installed. In the engine room, fuel tanks were removed, reconditioned and correctly refitted while converting about half their capacity to fresh water storage. The steering and anchor hydraulics were replaced. Local multi-qualified tradesman and electrician, John Ikin, recommended the purchase of an Onan genset, then completely rewired the boat, renewing the instrument panel adding a multifunction display/autopilot, radar, UHF radio, solar panels, battery bank, diesel heater, fridge, gas stove and TV before starting on the Gardner engine. The 8LXB, while basically sound, had most ancillary components replaced and was realigned with a new cutlass bearing. David Kurth, local welder, fabricated the anchor cradle, swim deck, hand rail and derrick. All of this work was completed behind Tamar Marine on a mud berth. Without the skill set, labour input and commitment of all family members, this restoration would not have been possible. The conversion of La Sallette to a family pleasure craft will hopefully ensure another 45 years afloat. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Pleasure Craft State: Tasmania Built: 1973 Lady Nelson

Name: Lady Nelson Boat Owner: Tasmanian Sail Training Trust Designer: Captain Schank Builder: Ray Kemp Description: The replica of the original Lady Nelson was launched from Ray Kemp’s ramp at Margate Tasmania in 1988. She began her voyages soon afterwards, first as a sail training ship in the Derwent, and soon afterwards sailing her first long voyage to Westernport in Victoria. During the next five years, Lady Nelson sailed the eastern ports of Australia before returning to her home port of Hobart. From 1996 until the present time many voyages have been undertaken, including Hobart to Stanley in 1996, Hobart to Strahan in 1997 and Hobart to Sydney in 1998, followed by her first circumnavigation around Tasmania later that year.

PageLOD 80 feet: 55 Hull Timber: Celery Top Classic Pine YachtType Associationof Boat: Historic of Australia Replica State: Tasmania Built: 1988 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lady Sonia

Name: Lady Sonia Boat Owner: Peter Witheridge Designer: Peter Witheridge Builder: Peter Witheridge Description: My wife likes traditional clinker dinghies. I like modern affordable building techniques and materials coupled with interesting, low aspect, easily handled rigs. We have a mix of shallow to moderate depth lakes and estuaries and the open sea near by, so a shallow draught is useful. ‘Lady Sonia’ is the result, a lightish displacement day sailer, drawing 0.62 metres with the dagger board down, and 0.2 metres with the board up or motoring; built in stitch and glue Hoop Pine ply trimmed with New Guinea Rosewood and hand carved Australian Cedar ‘nautilus’ stem-head. I used Boatcraft epoxy and Aquacoat throughout. Spars are aluminium tube, sails are cream Dacron made to my design by Switch Sails of Scarborough, Queensland. It is fitted with a 5 HP outboard for auxiliary power or just motoring – 5 knots at a bit above idle speed – and chart-plotter, sounder. The boat has well balanced volumes fore and aft with plenty of reserve stability. It has 5 airtight buoyancy chambers and 120 litres of solid foam behind cockpit seat backs. There are 5 separate stowage spaces under the seats and a chain locker under the foredeck. As you can see in the photos, it is a boat to sit in, rather than on. The 9.2 square metre gaff rig consists of a roller furled jib, and jiffy reefed gaff mainsail with a single halyard to both throat and peak inspired by those on Norfolk Wherries, with the mast supported by Dyneema stays. I made the main sheet blocks out of Coachwood for cheeks and Ironbark sheaves. The gaff and boom are also tipped with Coachwood. It is fun to sail. The 8 square metre balanced lug sail is set on an unstayed mast with a jiffy reef. It is a simple practical rig for sailing at sea and makes for an uncluttered fishing platform. Given the Derwent is quite open, this is the rig I would prefer to bring to the Festival if chosen. When designing my boats, I keep in mind that what we see in traditional boats is the best available appropriate technology of their day. LOD feet: 14 Hull Timber: Hoop Pine Ply Type of Boat: Day sailer State: New South Wales Built: 2017

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 81 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lahara

Name: Lahara Boat Owner: Mike Warner Designer: Jock Muir Builder: Jock Muir Description: Jock Muir was one of Hobart’s most renowned boat builders and his legacy lives on in many fine durable examples of the boatbuilding craft including Lahara. Lahara was launched in 1951 and immediately sailed to Sydney for measuring and competing in the Sydney to Hobart Race with Jock as sailing master. She was beaten into second place by Struen Marie, against which she still competes in Sydney waters. The rivalry continues after nearly 70 years. Lahara was commissioned by Des Ashton, a coastal patrol officer in New Guinea. Des and a mate would forage in the jungle for scrap metal left behind after WWII and with the proceeds Des afforded Lahara. Lahara is the name of a NW monsoon wind that blows across the Gulf of Papua towards Port Moresby. Lahara has competed in nearly every major ocean race on the East Coast of Australia over the years, traversed the Tasman sea at least twice, and still wanders up and down the coast. In 2015, after attending the AWBF in Hobart she sailed almost the full length of Australia’s east coast, heading north to Lizard Island. In 2016, she sailed to Lord Howe Island for the annual BBQ which now replaces the Lord Howe Island race. Restored in the late 1980’s by Ray Joyce, an architectural photographer with an eye for a good sheerline, who now lives in Hobart, Lahara has many more years in her. She is a joy to sail and gives immense pleasure to all who sail on her. LOD feet: 33 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1951

Page 82 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lalaguli

Name: Lalaguli Boat Owner: Rob & Jo Nolan Designer: Hank Kauffman Builder: Barry Jones Description: Lalaguli is a Kauffman designed pilot house yacht. Pilot house yachts are ideal for Tasmanian conditions mostly offering greater weather protection and internal space below decks than a conventional yacht yet having the sailing capability more akin to a yacht compared to a motor sailer. Lalaguli was built by Barry Jones from Tasmanian timbers, strip-planked and fibre glass/epoxy coated over King Billy Pine with Tasmanian hardwood frames. From its hand-crafted timber steering wheel to her sails by Tasmanian sail makers Lalaguli moves effortlessly through the water either under sail or her original 60hp Perkins Diesel engine. Having launched Lalaguli in 1994, Barry retained ownership until April 2018. To date Lalaguli has ventured to many places in southern Tasmania including Port Davey. Since the change of ownership in April 2018, Lalaguli has had its navigation systems upgraded and a general upgrading of the boat, whilst retaining the character Barry injected into the boat from when it was first launched. Lalaguli should continue to provide for good boating for many years to come. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Pilot House State: Tasmania Built: 1994

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 83 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Latura

Name: Latura Boat Owner: Bob Beresford Designer: William Hand Builder: Bays Bros Description: William Hand design built by Bayes Bros at Battery Point and launched in 1924. A founding member of RYCT and has cruised the Derwent for over 90 years. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1924 Laurabada

Name: Laurabada Boat Owner: Ivan & Anne Holm Designer: Ivan Holm [Snr] OAM Builder: Ivan Holm [Snr] OAM Description: Well known Queensland yacht. Unique record of 50 consecutive Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Races 1953 to 2002. 1st Qld boat to complete a Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Qld Maple & Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Ketch State: Queensland Built: 1953 Leah-Sofie

Name: Leah-Sofie Boat Owner: Ingerlise Armand Designer: Slaabye-Larsen Builder: Lauritzen Description: Leah-Sofie was built in Denmark in Mahogany with Spruce mast (all vanished), and has sailed the waters around Denmark, Sweden, Faeroe Islands and Germany. In 1988 she was shipped out to Sydney and later sailed down to Tasmania where she has been since. In 2013 she had new stainless steel rig and furler for the genoa, and in 2014 she had a new Volvo Penta 28 HP, 3 cylinder motor with 3 blade propeller put in. There is a Navik selfsteering wind vane. There is VHF radio, new depth sounder, el-pump and Epirb, and it also comes with a 6 person Viking liferaft. Leah-Sofie has won many races in Denmark and Sydney, but she has not raced seriously in Tasmania. She has been in current owner’s hands since 1987. LODPage 84 feet: 31 Hull Timber: Mahogany Classic Type Yachtof Boat: Association Sloop State: of Australia Tasmania Built: 1963 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Leda

Name: Leda Boat Owner: Andy Bullock Designer: Lee Anderson Builder: Dave Kew & John Young Description: Leda (previously Leofleda) was built in Adelaide by the founder of the Wooden Boat Centre in Franklin, John Young, together with skilled woodworker Dave Kew, and launched in December 1973. The 23ft boat’s lines were a slightly lengthened version of a South Australian fishing boat that her designer, Lee Anderson, had fished with under sail, without use of an auxiliary motor. After sea trials on St Vincent’s Gulf, John obtained a research grant to undertake anthropological studies in the Lau group of islands of western Fiji. The boat was trucked to Sydney then loaded onto a ship sailing to Tonga. In Tonga, John met legendary singlehander, Mike Bales, who taught him the art of celestial navigation. John, his wife Ruth, and their two children, then sailed 260 nautical miles westward to the Lau group. They narrowly escaped shipwreck when the keel touched on the edge of a coral reef as they entered a passage through the reef to the island where they had made landfall. With the trade wind on their beam Leofleda subsequently explored the island chain for three months, the family sharing the small cabin as their living quarters and meeting islanders in the course of the investigation they undertook, often trading for ship’s provisions. On completion of the studies the family sailed the boat onward to the main island of Fiji, where she was again lifted onto a ship for the return trip to Australia. Back again in Adelaide waters, the boat was moored in the Port river and cruised extensively in St Vincent’s Gulf and Spencer Gulf, including trips to Kangaroo Island, Port Lincoln and the Sir Joseph Banks Islands. She was pooped once running before a big sea, but survived in spite of the cockpit being non self-draining. In the 1990s, the Young family moved to Tasmania, to establish the Wooden Boat School, and Leofleda was again lifted onto the deck of a ship to be transported to Tasmania. She was moored for many years off South Franklin and cruised local waters, participating in some earlier wooden boat festivals. I bought the boat in April 2017 and initially moored her next to a friend’s houseboat at Cradoc, before sailing her around to her new home at Port Cygnet. I have been refurbishing the boat (with her name shortened to Leda), replacing the mission brown paintwork with a cheerful blue, and learning to handle her. She won the penultimate PCSC twilight race by one second on corrected time, and participated in the 2018 Cygnet Regatta in strong wind conditions. LOD feet: 23 Hull Timber: Jarrah & Qld Maple Type of Boat: Gaff Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1973

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 85 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Leprena

Name: Leprena Boat Owner: Andrew & Mary Perkins Designer: unknown Builder: unknown Description: Leprena was the 6 oared jolly boat from the 110′ schooner Leprena which was wrecked at Eddystone point in 1925 on a rock later named Leprena Rock. The jolly boat was the only thing salvaged from the wreck, it was sold and worked as a cray dinghy at Recherche Bay for many years until bought and restored by Bart Hutchings and converted to steam, it was then bought by present owners Andrew and Mary Perkins and converted to wood pellet (Biomass) firing as an example of the potential of biomass energy and is the only known wood pellet powered vessel in the world . LOD feet: 17 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Steam Launch State: Tasmania Built: c.1922

Page 86 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Leshelen

Name: Leshelen Boat Owner: Bruce & Janet Hummerston Designer: R.H.Thompson Builder: R Torrenents Description: In 2015, the Leshelen was donated to the Wooden Boat Center. It was in exceptionally poor condition. Part of the starboard side of the superstructure was missing and the balance of the boat was exceptionally poorly maintained. Despite this, my wife and I saw the beauty in the lines of the boat and had the vision to see the boat restored to its previous glory. Our master ship builder, Dave Nash, from the ketch Yukon, brought his exceptional building skills and wealth of knowledge to the table and together we have been able to rescue this boat. Unfortunately, due to the damage suffered previously, most of the superstructure was unable to be saved. Below deck areas had suffered water damage due to the missing starboard component of the superstructure. The many photos of the Leshelen enabled Dave to faithfully recreate the look and feel of this beautiful old boat. All windows needed to be upgraded to meet modern safety specifications, yet they been designed to maintain the unique look of this boat. The stem had rotted and was replaced with seasoned Blue Gum. Once again, the photos of the boat in its prime were used to faithfully recreate the stem. The hull itself was still sound and required only minimal work to bring it back to its original condition. Very few of the original planks needed to be replaced, and in most cases only small sections needed attention. The boat was originally corked with oakum, but, due to some decay on the edges of the planks above the waterline, it was decided to spline all seams above the waterline then traditionally caulk everything below. We now have a very sleek, well-shaped boat that is both appealing to eye as well as smooth through the water. The hull has been hand sanded and painted to give it a beautiful glossy finish. The interior fit-out includes highlighted areas of reclaimed Huon Pine, obtained from an old punt originally used in the Corinna area. This punt broke its moorings sometime in the late 1800’s and lay undisturbed, buried under sand, for over 100 years, until the wood was reclaimed. The planks had been covered in tar to preserve them and after cleaning / bleaching we are now left with a beautiful blue-grey pattern in the wood. This wood has been used for the bed boards on the bunks as well as for creating 2 beautiful tables for use in the forward saloon and galley. One interesting item that we discovered when cleaning up the boat was the original galley bench – a solid piece of Huon Pine that had been covered with Laminex! This has since been cleaned, restored and reinstalled in the galley. Much of the existing brass work has been retained, including the porthole surrounds and propeller. The original brass anchor winch has been refurbished and sits in its pride of place at the bow of the boat. We are now in the final stages of the fit-out, with the prime purpose of having this boat at its very best for the Wooden Boat Festival 2019. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: Houn Pine Type of Boat: River Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1950 Lilli G

Name: Lilli G Boat Owner: Campbell Gregory Designer: Thought to be Max Creese Builder: Thought to be Max Creese Description: Originally built as a fishing dinghy. More recently used as a work boat at Oyster Cove Marina, Kettering.

LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: King Billy PineClassic Type Yacht of Association Boat: Cray of Dinghy Australia State: Tasmania Built: c. 1959 Page 87 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lillian

Name: Lillian Boat Owner: Louis & Matt Stevens Designer: Designed by Builder Builder: Tom Tiffin Description: Lillian, built in Beaconsfield by Tom Tiffin and launched in 1945, was the first of two boats he built, the second being Redbill. She is 30′, hardwood clinker construction, originally fitted with a 4hp Clae engine .We believe she is one of the larger clinker built vessels still afloat in Tasmania. Tom & Lillian fished out the Tamar heads until 1953 when she was purchased by Roger Maxfield & his partner Ruth Shelley, who fished her out of Coles Bay for the next 27 years. In the late 50’s the Clae was replaced with a Lister 21hp diesel to give Lillian the extra grunt needed to operate a scallop dredge and winch. In 1961, with the help of Bern Cuthbertson senior, the Lister was replaced with a 65hp Ford Thames diesel and fully decked with a handrail and aft wheelhouse. The wheelhouse would have to be removed during the scallop season to make way for the dredging frame and winch. Lillian became well known to the local shack owners and visitors, known for ferrying bushwalkers to Schouten Island. When Roger & Ruth retired in 1980, she was purchased by Rod Scott, who fished her out of Coles Bay until 1983. Her days as a commercial fishing boat ended in 1983 when she was sold to Ian Dyer of Launceston and returned to the Tamar. At some point, she sank at Beauty Point but was re-floated and then moved to Kelso briefly with new owner Bob Harvey before being sold to Jeff Bartlett in 1988. Jeff moored her in the Gorge yacht basin where he removed the wet well, re- planked sections of her hull and installed a large cabin for her new life as a pleasure launch. She was also re-powered with a BMC Commodore 52hp engine. She was again sold, this time to an Underwood family who returned her firstly to Bicheno and finally back to Coles Bay in 2002. Disaster struck in March 2003 when she again sank on her mooring, this time as a result of torrential rain and a wild storm. Tim and Archana Brammall and friend Rodney Dransfield bought Lillian, now just a hull, for $1 with the intention of resurrecting her but sadly it wasn’t to be and she sat until 2010 when she was gifted to a group of Vietnam vets who operated the Battery Point slipway. Graeme Smith and his mates undertook the daunting task of restoring Lillian turning her into a couta boat complete with mast, rigging and cuddy cabin. She was entered in the 2011, 2013 & 2015 AWBF’s and was even visited by long term owner Ruth Shelley, who gave Graeme a lot of her oral history. The current custodians of Lillian, Louis Stevens and his son Matt, who is a boat building apprentice with Denman Marine, are currently converting Lillian back to an aft wheelhouse configuration with a small gaff rig and simple coachhouse/saloon. Since her purchase in 2016, she has had new engine beds, mounts, prop shaft, coupling and has had all new hardwood deck beams and carlins installed ready for her new deck install in October 2018. By the time the 2019 AWBF rolls around we hope to have the new wheelhouse, coachhouse and forward hatch. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Hardwood Tas Oak Type of Boat: Ex Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1945

Page 88 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lillias

Name: Lillias Boat Owner: Stewart Edwards Designer: Arthur Swinfield Builder: Richard Johnson Description: Richard Johnson was stationed in Tonga toward the end of his career as a master woodwork teacher in Tasmania at the bequest of the Tongan Government to build a school. Every morning at breakfast whilst overlooking the fishing port he would admire the fishing boats of 25 feet and gaff rigged, go to sea, and return in the afternoon with a load of fish in the wet well. He decided that on his return to his home in Taroona once the school building was completed to build a boat of the same design. He tracked down the plans for the Tongan fishing boats, drawn by RAN architect Arthur Swinfield, lengthened the boat by 3 feet and set to in 1983 to build Lillias. Tasmanian timbers were used to construct the boat and each plank was splined with less than a cup full of putty used during construction. Lillias was launched on 26 September 1988 and placed in the first berth, A1 at the Derwent Sailing Squadron where she still lays. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Motor Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1988

Little Ripple

Name: Little Ripple Boat Owner: James Taylor Designer: Swallow Boats Builder: Denman Marine Description: We are participating in our second Tawe Nunnagah in 2019 and we will also sail back after the AWBF with the return Raid. The Bay Raider is ideally suited to coastal sailing (aka “raiding”) – especially the D’entrecasteaux Channel. It is very seaworthy due to its wide beam and water ballast, but also has the lively dinghy feel when sailed unballasted. The sail plan is very flexible, fly the kite for exhilarating downwind legs, when it blows simply reef the mainsail, or over 25-30knots just drop the main and sail perfectly balanced under jib and mizzen. At 350 kg, it is readily trailerable and easily launched and it only takes 10 minutes to rig for sailing. A gem combining traditional looks with modern materials, construction and ergonomics! LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Day Sailer Ketch State: Victoria Built: 2012 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 89 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lonely

Name: Lonely Boat Owner: Sean Kelly Designer: Laurie Davidson Builder: Brian Keelty Description: Time, timber yacht construction consumes great swathes of it. In an age when many alternatives availed, Brian Keelty, a pattern maker by occupation, set about the construction of Lonely in the shed on his Queensland farm. Brian’s trade involved working in thousands of an inch. This attention to detail was applied to Lonely’s cold moulded construction using three layers of diagonally laid Western Red Cedar. She was built from a design by then up and coming naval architect Laurie Davidson of New Zealand. The Keelty family photographed much of the build from the construction of the first jigs, the pouring of the lead for the keel into of course, a purpose built concrete mould through to the day the keel was bolted to the hull and the vessel launched as King Arthur on 27 March 1987. She was soon club champion up Mooloolabar way but required one modification, a discrete steel frame amidships so that the door to the head could release the owner’s daughter in a blow. King Arthur became Supertramp II after she was purchased by professional yachtsman Alan Webb. Alan had already circumnavigated with his wife and daughter on a steel Adams. He remains something of an enigma and perhaps even less would be known of him had he not contributed to the latest edition of Heavy Weather sailing where he compares sailing the Adams around the Horn in the worst of weather, with facing hurricane conditions alone aboard Supertramp II during a solo circumnavigation. He ran downwind aboard the Adams and hove to aboard Supertramp II. It all sounds so simple. Your author, no stranger to offshore sailing, purchased Supertramp II in January 2009 and has sailed her from the Sydney Amateur Sailing Club in Sydney Harbor’s Mosman Bay since then. The great minds of the two previous owners and the designer are in constant evidence aboard this immensly strong vessel that displaces little more than 5 tons soaking wet. Now sailing as Lonely, she is a roomy vessel with 6’2″ headroom from the companionway through to the foward berth with no extraneous boubles. Everything that should open and shut does just that. Lonely is simple to understand, easy to maintain and sails herself at considerable speed with remarkably little assistance upwind and down. She has a motor, it is painted yellow and seems to work. She has a radar, an aries wind vane and a wind generator, all of which have been installed with elegant simplicity and tested over thousands of ocean miles. Lonely can be sailed singlehanded and is raced sometimes with ten or more and feels quite roomy. Below, she is a welcoming vessel, displaying the timber construction that suprises many. We all love our yachts and this owner is no less a smitten fool than many others, Lonely is a happy, well proven yacht and a fine example of the art of wooden boat construction. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Cedar Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1987

Page 90 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lorita Maria

Name: Lorita Maria Boat Owner: Greg Barrell Designer: Alan Payne Builder: Jeof Clist Description: Lorita Maria’s design was commissioned in 1962 from Alan Payne by Sydney, NSW owner, Norman Rydge Jr, and named after his wife. At this time Payne had been working on the design of the America’s Cup 12 metre Gretel and employed ideas he had learnt from tank testing that design, especially in the shape of the keel. It was built by Jeff Clist Payne specified a glued, double- planked hull, with closely spaced frames. The yacht was heavily built all round and had a low ballast ratio. It derived form stability from its beamy, hard-bilged hull shape. In its first season it won the 1963-64 Ocean Racing Points Score at the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, was third in the 1963 Sydney To Hobart race, and managed a fourth place in its class in the light weather 1965 Fastnet Race in the United Kingdom. It generally carried a crew of six including the skipper. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1963 Lucy

Name: Lucy Boat Owner: Kristal & Gerwyn Evans Designer: Ed Burnett Builder: Owner Description: At first glance Lucy looks like a restored 1940’s Harrison Butler yacht. But she was designed by Ed Burnett the famous UK traditional naval architect, whose body of work includes Gloriana her Majesty’s rowing barge. Lucy is traditionally built plank on frame with caulk seams, but purpose built for blue water cruising. Since launch Lucy has crossed the Tasman, circumnavigated the South Island of New Zealand, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Her next voyage is to Japan in March 2019. Simply put she is a beautiful boat. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop cutter rigged State: Queensland Built: 2014 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 91 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Lueena

Name: Lueena Boat Owner: Alan & Pip Scholten Designer: Arthur C Robb Builder: Otley Groome Description: I purchased the boat in 2008 in a somewhat sorry state, thinking that it would not take long to “do her up”. Then began a very steep learning curve about what is involved in being the owner of an elderly wooden boat! Moving to the present day and I have now completed all major works, refurbishing the cabin interior – the white painted Masonite pegboard had to go! Re-masted, new sails, cockpit refit along with routine maintenance kept me busy. The process was all made worthwhile as I have been fortunate to be in all Festivals since 2009. A constant source of surprise is how well the vessel is known. I have had previous owners or their family come for a chat at each Festival. One of the daughters of the builder remembers helping with construction in the back yard. She was the only one small enough to “get up inside the pointy end” and help with the roving & clenching by holding the “dolly”, very noisy, apparently! Another lady informed me that when her father owned the boat he was so fussy he would allow no fishing on board, only in the dingy towed behind! The visit that really impacted me the most was yet another lady who, in 2015, offered me the original brass wheel that was on the boat when owned by her father, since deceased. She said he would have been happy to know it was back on the boat. So duly installed it was for her to see in 2017. The boat has had several owners and was also for some period, I am told, a workboat from Purdon & Featherstone. As yet I have not been able to confirm this. I do know she spent some time at Triabunna immediately before I purchased her so earlier this year I decided to take her up there for a trip and visit Maria Island. On passing through Dunalley and the canal another example of how well Lueena appears to be remembered. I was tied up at the fish wharf and the Canal Superintendant came down, looked over the side an asked if I still had the 20 hp Buhk in her! It would have been at least 10 years since she last passed that way. Enough of my history with her, now a little about her designer, Arthur C Robb. He designed other vessels, including during WW2, a fully self contained rigid lifeboat which was dropped from a Hudson Bomber to downed Airmen. There is an example in the RAF Hendon Museum. Another from his stable of designs was the “Lion Class”, one of which, “Siandra ” won the Sydney -Hobart on handicap in 1958 & 1960. LOD feet: 23 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Motor Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: c. 1960

Page 92 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Luna

Name: Luna Boat Owner: Fraser & Karin Petrie Designer: Van de Stadt Builder: Keith Sutcliffe Description: Luna was built by myself and a professional boat builder. She is my 5th yacht and represents the culmination of what I wanted in a cruising yacht. The construction was managed as a full time project and she was launched in 9 months. After launch we took off to Darwin, competed in the 2004 Darwin to Bali Race and then spent the subsequent two years in South East Asia and Western Pacific. While based in Tasmania she has cruised extensively around the Island as well as racing in the Channel and participating in many regattas. In 2014 we participated in the Darwin to Ambon Yacht race and achieved a 2nd in the 2nd division. This was followed by a season in the Kimberley region and then back down the East Coast. In 2017 while on the Gold Coast we reunited with Keith Sutcliffe (the original boat builder) and conducted a refit, respray and now she presents as new. Luna has all the benefits of a combination of wooden construction and modern materials (epoxy), she is light, fast, comfortable and yet retains a traditional feel with low maintenance. Luna demonstrates the benefits of strip plank construction, owner builder methodologies and a modern design. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Wester Red Cedar & Quandong Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 2003 Lyndenne

Name: Lyndenne Boat Owner: Tom Hughes Builder: Bernie Berkshire Description: Built for Rupert Denne, who fished the Port Davey area for 40 years, was widely respected by all who knew him, Lyn (Denne) was on board last AWBF. LOD feet: 46 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Ex Cray Boat State: New South Wales Built: 1947

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 93 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart MadMel

Name: MadMel Boat Owner: John Brown Designer: L Francis Herresmhoff Builder: Alf Jahnsen Description: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, racing yachts competing in the annual New York Yacht Club Cruise carried racing tenders, specifically designed for rowing races between the various competing yachts crews. In 1929, L Francis Herreshoff designed the 87ft M Class sloop Istalena, included in the design drawings were the plans for her racing tender. MadMel has been constructed in accordance with the original plans, obtained from Francis Herreshoff’s secretary, Mrs Muriel Vaughn, who continued to administer his estate and sell his plans after his passing. The design narrative and some history of the evolution of the pram type dinghy and this design, is included in in Francis Herreshoff’s book “The Common Sense of Yacht Design” Chapter 19- Small Craft. LOD feet: 8 Hull Timber: Australian Red Cedar Type of Boat: Dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 1994

Page 94 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Madoc

Name: Madoc Boat Owner: Geoffrey Wharton & Andrea Coats Designer: Fenwick Williams Builder: Mike Seeney Description: Madoc was built by Mike Seeney in the late eighties, using hand-tools and traditional construction techniques. She is built from Tasmanian timbers including Blue Gum and Celery Top Pine. Madoc is a small cruising yacht perfect for sailing Tasmanian waters or further offshore voyages. Madoc was built in Oyster Cove after English born Mike decided to sail back to the UK from Hobart. He wanted to build a sturdy, seaworthy blue water boat that could be handled solo. Mike’s plans changed when he met Wendy Edwards, after which they added the cabin to make Madoc more liveable for two people. Wendy also built the matching clinker tender, Gynty. Mike & Wendy eventually travelled north together on Madoc, spending time in Sydney and reaching as far as Bali before heading back to Hobart. Madoc has been a much loved boat. Mike passed away in 2011 and Madoc is now with us, the new owners (Geoff and Andrea). We live aboard most of the year, sailing the Tassie coast. For us the boat is the perfect mixture of practicality and beauty. It is small and compact, with an easy to handle rig perfect for sailing in Tasmania’s unpredictable weather. Below deck is a sanctuary of cosy warmth and comfort, with a rich texture of timber grain, exposed clinker planking, copper roves and oiled deck beams. Madoc has the wonderful soundscape of a clinker boat which is a tinkling at anchor and a reassuring burble underway. Madoc has some unique features worth mentioning: – The original design is featured as “Annie” in Wooden Boat magazine #41, 1981. – The design is a yawl with a gaff rigged mainsail. She has a stern hung rudder and a rounded tiller shaped around the mizzen mast. – The rigging is traditional, with deadeyes, rope lanyards and served galvanized shrouds. – Much of Madoc was built by Mike using only hand tools. Planks & deck timbers were all ripped individually by Mike using a handsaw. Saw marks and imperfections can still be seen in the interior and are part of Madoc’s charm. – The topsides, cabin and all railings and hatches are all varnished – they have been varnished and maintained since sometime after launch (apparently she was originally launched with oiled topsides for some time before being varnished). – The deck is fully laid 25mm Celery Top Pine (no plywood) with traditional cotton caulking. – Madoc was originally launched engineless though soon afterwards Mike fitted the 10hp Saab with feathering prop. – At only 24ft Madoc is surprisingly spacious. The back deck is flush allowing for a full sized double aft berth. The galley has an oven and double-burner kerosene stove. Stainless steel water storage under the bunk of 190L. The dingy stows aboard sideways on the front deck between the mast and cabin whilst underway. -Madoc was featured in Classic Boat magazine May 2001 “A Tasmanian Angel” and the recent publication “Ultimate Classic Yachts: 20 of the World’s Most Beautiful Classic Yachts” by Nic Compton. Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 95 LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Gaff Yawl State: Tasmania Built: 1990 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Magic

Name: Magic Boat Owner: Brett Ditchfield Designer: Modified Harrison Butler Builder: Westyn & Hunter Description: Spirit of tradition style and modified by Harrison Butler. Stripped planked with separate fin keel & rudder. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Cutter State: Victoria Built: 1997 Maid of Martha

Name: Maid of Martha Boat Owner: Andrew Mitchell Designer: Lacco Builder: Lacco Description: Maid of Martha designed by Ken Lacco and built by Alec Lacco, whose family was one of the premier boat building families of Victoria. Originally from Queenscliff, they helped build the Bass strait fishing fleet. Maid of Martha was a non commercial commission for the Bowen family. A Gardner 6LW engine was ordered from the UK and timber from a mill in Strahan.The design is basically a super sized couta boat with box in the middle, the high stern gives her sailing ability as well as sea keeping. Dressed 3/4′ Huon Pine carvel over laminated Huon close spaced ribs makes for little to no movement in the hull the keel is wrapped in copper and a lead fillet added for ballest results in a nax heel angle. 30% a ketch rig with over rated stays and spars with duel steering via torque bar down the starboard side and worm quad make her very strong ridged boat at home in the open ocean. She has high bulwarks with extensive S/S fittings externally, giving her a distinctive quality classic look with a blend of timber and paint with S/S highlights. Layout comprises forrard cabin with 4 berths, shower & head, central saloon with engine room under, engine placed so cylinders are above water line, gen, invert,fridg, batt, pumps all easy access. Owners cabin aft with shower & head, with steering position above. All woodwork and joinery are of the highest standard with African Mahogany and laminated beems. Throughout her life the Maid has been maintained as new, with new rigging, water tanks, plumbing, wiring, navigation, etc. Gardener 6LW is in perfect order and looks near new, with 8000 hours out of an estimated 50,000 hours until l first overhaul. International paint is used exclusively with the hull and decks on a 5 year rotation and yearly bottom coat, bright work when needed. She is a handsome craft that is well maintained and loved. LOD feet: 40 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Sailer State: Victoria Built: 1970 Page 96 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Majeure

Name: Majeure Boat Owner: Stephen Wirtz Designer: Jeremy Clowes Builder: Cygnet Wooden Boats Description: My couta boat was built on a whimsy, that is to produce a vessel in Tasmania that embodies all that’s good about Tassie boat building ,design and materials. The original brief was for her to be an open boat that could be sailed single handed and moved about easily on a trailer. She ended up though with a traditional cuddly cabin and a bit bigger and more expensive. She also had to comply with Vic Couta Boat design regs so she could race in the CBA and Sorrento club events. Results speak for themselves and Majuere has turned out a little stunner to look at and a treat to sail, with an traditional look that belies her age and pedigree. LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Couta Boat State: Victoria Built: 2017

Mallana

Name: Mallana Boat Owner: Greenlees Family Designer: C. Ritchie Builder: Fred Moore Description: Mallana represents a period in Australia’s maritime history which has almost been lost. She was designed and constructed from an era in Tassie without any influence from the racing rules of sailing, half fishing boat, half yacht. Maintaining the aesthetics of the era, her traditional gaff sails are hand finished and hoisted by hand. Much admired, she is featured in Ben Mendlowitz, 2019 Wooden Boat Calendar. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Gaff ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1907

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 97 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Manu-Iti

Name: Manu-Iti Boat Owner: Steve Millington Designer: Woollacott Builder: Weller Description: I have owned Manu-Iti for the last 13 years and have enjoyed her good manners ever since. Unfortunately the time has come to pass her to a new owner whom I hope will look after her and keep her afloat for many years to come. However, should circumstances change I would not hesitate in getting her back. Based on the original Ladybird, designed and built by Woollacott late in his life, she is a sea kindly vessel and has competed in the Auckland to Noumea race as well as travelling as far afield (anecdotally) as the west coast of Canada. The original Ladybird had a Hobart connection having competed in the inaugural (1952) Hobart to Auckland race winning the race just 20 minutes ahead of Tasmanian entrant Lahara. The heavy seas encountered proved the reliability and integrity of the design and many more were to follow. Sir Peter Blake’s parents were to buy the original Ladybird and this esteemed yachtsman described her as “a proper yacht” where he learned much of the seamanship he became renowned for. Manu-Iti has been a fixture around Kettering and Hobart for many years with several previous owners, all of whom have contributed to keeping her in original condition, retaining the Oregon spars and ketch rig. LOD feet: 33 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1970

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Maori Lass

Name: Maori Lass Boat Owner: Ross & Cheryl Barnett Designer: H.E. Cox Builder: Ron Andrewartha Description: Maori Lass was built in Letitia Street North Hobart over a period of 2 years by Ron Andrewartha and his two sons and launched at Franklin Wharf by the old steam crane in September 1950. She was a consistent and successful club racer on the River Derwent and remained in Hobart until 1970, then she relocated to Port Hacking, Sydney. She then went on to cruise the Great Barrier Reef in 1971- 2. From November 1976 until 1982 she circumnavigated the world with a young Queensland couple. Letters sent home from the voyage from “Darwin to Sydney via the two canals” became a diary of the voyage of which we have a copy. The current custodians purchased Maori Lass in Pittwater, Sydney in 1993. In 2004 after a 34 year absence she returned to Hobart and had a major refit ready to attend the 2005 AWBF and has attended all festivals since. In September 2017 Maori Lass entered the famous old “Wilson’s Shed”, Cygnet where she has had a major refit and has only recently been relaunched ready for another 70 years. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1950

Marauder

Name: Marauder Boat Owner: Kevin Barnett Designer: Army Builder: G M H Description: Marauder started life as an army work boat. She then became a professional fishing boat working between Lakes Entrance & Eden with a little time spent working in Tassie in early 70’s, then back to Lakes. Retiring from work in 2005 in Mallacoota, she was converted into a pleasure craft. She spent ten years roaming the Paynesville Lakes. We purchased her in 2017 and brought her back to Tassie. We have spent the last 12 months up grading her for our conditions. Now ready to travel around Tassie and up to Port Douglas Qld. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: American Oregon Type of Boat: Pleasure craft State: Tasmania Built: 1944

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 99 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Margaret Eve

Name: Margaret Eve Boat Owner: Roger Lawrence Designer: Wilsons Builder: Mickey Blake & Dean Wilson Description: Alec McBain had the boat built. Des Garsed leased and used the boat for cray fishing. Jim Hursey owned Margaret Eve and used it for cray fishing. Previous owners, Mark Devine used her for abalone fishing and Shawn Abbott used her for cray fishing. Roger Lawrence purchased the boat in very poor condition and commenced the work listed below with the help of family and friends. Aft wheelhouse was removed and a new much larger deckhouse constructed using hardwood frames, marine ply over with 10ml glass to windows. Fitted out galley etc. using Huon Pine and Myrtle. The centre well was removed and 2 stainless fresh water tanks were fitted, 600lt each.Two double berths, forward cabin includes 4 berths, a shower and electric toilet. Engine room, rebuilt 353gm motor, 2 refurbished fuel tanks, 700lt each, 8kw genset and exhaust fans. New steering and the boat has been rewired with electronics and replumbed with 50lt hot water cylinder. New standing rigging and steel slipper. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Ex Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1965

Marguerite

Name: Marguerite Boat Owner: Peter Cavill Designer: John L. Hacker Builder: Frecheville Heaney Description: Australian built replica of 1922 Gold Cup Race boat “Arab VI” LOD feet: 27 Hull Timber: West African Mahogany Type of Boat: Speedboat State: Queensland Built: 2010

Page 100 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Maris

Name: Maris Boat Owner: Tiare Tomaszewski & John Green Designer: Alan Payne Builder: Jock Muir Description: Beautifully built by Jock Muir, Maris is in wonderful condition with new varnish (the first time she’s been stripped to timber since 1994!), and ongoing maintenance ensuring she is still a jewel that turns heads where ever she goes. The joy of sailing the NSW and Tasmanian waters during the last Wooden Boat Festival is luring me back with Maris. She’s so sea kindly that every time I get on her and cruise somewhere it’s hard to stop. Must be the Earl blood! LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Timber Yawl State: New South Wales Built: 1958

Mary Mine

Name: Mary Mine Boat Owner: Richard Long Designer: Harry Clark Builder: Cayzer Brothers Description: Mary Mine Build was commissioned by Reg Wells in 1956, Designed by Harry Clarke, Built by Cayzer Bros Queenscliff Reg Wells fished for many years until his son Buzza Wells took over. Mary Mine fished commercially for 50 years and travelled through the heads of Port Phillip in excess of 13,000 times. Fishing consisted of crays, shark & scalloping 32′ long 4′ beam 4′ draft Frames & Hull New Zealand Kauri planking. Deck Tasmanian Celery Top pine Mary Mine was retired in 2006. An extensive refit for leisure purposes was undertaken by Tim Phillips of Wooden Boat Shop Sorrento Victoria. The refit included a new cabin & engine. Currently used around Port Phillip Bay and has completed many trips to Wilsons Prom, Deal Island, Flinders Island and Tasmania and New South Wales. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: New Zealand Kauri Type of Boat: Cray boat State: Victoria Built: 1956

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 101 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Masterpiece

Name: Masterpiece Boat Owner: Alan & Lesley Perkins Designer: Hercus Marine Design Builder: Owner, David Wardrop & Trevor Sharman Description: Masterpiece is triple diagonal King Billy on Queensland Maple Frame’s and Douglas Fir stringers, gunwhales, chines and Keels. She is glued with West. LOD feet: 47 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Power Catamaran State: Tasmania Built: 2002 May Queen

Name: May Queen Boat Owner: MMT Designer: Alexander Lawson Builder: Alexander Lawson Description: The SV May Queen is Australia’s oldest sail trading vessel still afloat. She is one of a handful of wooden boats of her era still afloat in the world. LOD feet: 66 Hull Timber: Blue Gum & Stringy Bark Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1867

Meander

Name: Meander Boat Owner: David Daintree Designer: Knud Reimers Builder: J Underwood Description: Meander has been shown by her previous owner, Richard Wittkopp, at several Australian Wooden Boat Festivals. My understanding is that she is a modified (about 6′ longer) version of Knud Reimers’s famous canoe-sterned Tumlare design. Uffa Fox described the Tumlare as a ‘very advanced type’. Currently Meander carries a fractional Bermudan rig. She sails fast in quite light winds and is a comfortable and efficient cruising boat. LOD feet: 33 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1948

Page 102 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Menindee

Name: Menindee Boat Owner: Peter McKeand Designer: Mark Abbott Builder: Corsair Boats Description: Having crossed Bass Strait 6 times on its way to and from Tasmania, Menindee has proved her seaworthiness and the reliability and economy of her Yanmar motor. What a joy it has been to bring her South and to explore both the east and west coasts of the wonderful island state. A quick trip up to Pittwater with a few mates only added to our sea loving adventures in her. She took 2 years to build with a team of 1-3 people working on her. Mark Abbott’s boat building knowledge and skills led to a beautifully designed, strong seaworthy boat that with, a little TLC, will be around for the next 50 years. I expect to own her for another 10 years or so then to pass her on to the next adventurer. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Western Red Cedar Type of Boat: Launch State: Victoria Built: 2014 Merlin

Name: Merlin Boat Owner: Dylan Reid Designer: Percy C Douglas Builder: Cliff Probin Description: Merlin was built in the centre of Tasmania (as far away from the water as you can get) at Pontifex Street, Queenstown by Cliff Probin, who was foreman carpenter at the Mt Lyell mine and who seemed to have no problem in obtaining high quality Huon Pine. Merlin has Huon Pine planking, ribs, deadwood, deck and deck beams and remains as one of the more original D’s. She was launched in Hobart, after an 18 hour truck journey, in 1948. Chooky Newman sailed her for years in Pennants and Regattas, with many victories including the Hobart Regatta. Merlin lived in the Huon River for the 40 odd years. Noel ‘Badger’ Evans, a local orchardist, sailed her at Port Huon for many years. Roger Harwood put on new toe-rails and rubbing strips during this time. She was then sold to Bob Cleary who brought her to Cygnet, where Ross Berkman bought her in 1991. She continued to live in Cygnet before moving, in 2013, to Kettering & Bruny Island in the ownership of Jane Wilson and sailed by Jane Wilson, Ian, Parry ,Tasman and Dan Parry. She is the most beautiful little boat, 70 this year and looking pretty spritely still, especially with her newly red painted mast which has definitley made her faster still. Its a privilege to own her, this piece of the Derwent’s maritime history and she has recently been chosen by Tourism Tasmania to grace one of the roadside billboards advertising the South. Drive into Margate, you drive past Merlin! LOD feet: 21 Hull Timber: Huon Pine TypeClassic of YachtBoat: AssociationDerwent Class of Australia State: Tasmania Built: 1948 Page 103 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Merlin

Name: Merlin Boat Owner: John & Hugh Counsell Designer: Cpt. O.M. Watts Builder: Philip & Sons Description: Merlin was built in 1934 by well known Dartmouth shipyard Philip & Son Ltd in 1934. She was the selected design of two proposals for a hard weather cruiser. The losing designer, so incensed, commissioned the build of his own design and “threw down the gauntlet”, challenging Merlin to a race. Merlin lost the race and the Berthon “Gauntlet” class was born. From the mid 1930’s, through the to late 1970s, Merlin was cruised extensively and almost continuously. This cruising was widely written about under the ownerships of Lord Stanley of Aldeley (RCC) and later Dr. Ronnie Andrews (RCC), earning her a reputation as a sea kindly and extremely capable ship. Merlin completed a circumnavigation in the mid 1970’s with Dr. Andrews. Merlin was then purchased and sailed by John & Rosalie Counsell, from England to Australia in the late 1970s, where she was sold. Thirty years later, after a 6 month search by Hugh Counsell, she was found in a deteriorating state in a Queensland backyard. She was rescued, trucked to Victoria and has rebuilt over 5 years from 2010 to 2015. The rebuild has included complete reframing, refastening, re-decking and restoration of original interior fit-out. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Teak Type of Boat: Cutter State: Victoria Built: 1934 Merlyn

Name: Merlyn Boat Owner: Bryan Walpole & Liz Little Designer: Philip Myer Builder: Gill Albutt & Phillip Myer Description: One of the larger Couta boats ever built, she is fully equipped for extensive cruising, with a traditional large open self draining cockpit, 5 berths, and a dinghy in davits. Built of Kauri,with bruised edge planking (no caulking) over laminated Celery Top frames, she is enormously strong and seaworthy. Circular portholes give her a traditional look, and safety at sea.The deck is Queensland Beech. The 7 foot long bent Mahogany bowsprit give her a stylish appearance. She has twice circumnavigated Tasmania, attended the Geelong Wooden Boat Festrival, and cruised both the Furneaux group and Victorian coast. She is a pleasure to sail and exhibit. She underwent a minor refit in 2012. LOD feet: 33 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Couta boat State: Tasmania Built: 1988 Page 104 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Mil

Name: Mil Boat Owner: Colin Williams Designer: Charlie Larson & John Thomas Builder: Charlie Larson & John Thomas Description: Mil was built in Gladesville, NSW and launched in 1950. She was originally kept in Sydney Harbour and was an early member of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia where she was raced by the original owner/builder, John Thomas. Sy Lenahan purchased her and kept her in Sydney Harbour until selling her to Bruce Heart, who kept her in Port Hacking and raced with the Port Hacking Motor Yacht Club. Colin and Carol Williams bought her in 1968 and continued to moor her in Port Hacking and race with the Motor Yacht Club until 1972, when they unanchored and set sail for Queensland, where they spent 30 years cruising Queensland waters, the Barrier Reef and Islands. During this time she was based in Cairns for 14 years before spending some time in Central Qld waters and finally moving to Tasmania 14 years ago, since then she has been moored at Kettering Marina and regularly completes short trips on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Beech Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1950

Minocqua

Name: Minocqua Boat Owner: Andrew M Cannon AM Designer: Lars Halvorsen & Sons Builder: Lars Halvorsen & Sons Description: The vessel officiated in the 1988 World Expo for H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II. It has been owned by Commodores in three States and is now owned by the Commodore of the Australian Yacht Squadron. LOD feet: 50 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Wooden Cabin Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1947

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 105 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Miri Winni

Name: Miri Winni Boat Owner: Roger Howlett Designer: Herreshoff Builder: Cecil Cartlidge Description: Built by Cecil Cartlidge, well known Launceston builder. Cecil built about 30 boats of varying design, type and length. These show a record of his skill and competence and proficiency of his workmanship. Miri Winni is no exception! Her keel was laid in November 1973 and she was launched in November 1976. The keel, forefoot, stem and all supporting knees, planking and frames were all cut from first grade Huon Pine which was supplied by Morrison’s of Strahan on the west coast of Tasmania. The construction is carvel planked with 3″ by 15/16″ huon pine and huon pine frames at 8′ centres. The H28 plans specify 12′ centres!. Deck beams are air dried Tasmanian Oak. The deck and cockpit are 1/2 ”marine plywood covered with fiberglass. She originally had a Fiat tractor engine in her but is now fitted with a 3 cylinder 21hp Nanni inboard diesel engine. Cecil’s son always looks out for MiriWinni as he reckons she is one of the best and prettiest boats his dad built. The sail plan was designed by Geoff Teasdale and the original sails were 8oz terylene made by George Pickers in Hobart. Miri Winni was built originally for Peter Beckett in Launceston and she raced with the Tamar Yacht Club, registered TYC 77, with some success. In 1980 she was sold to Laurie Ford and moored off Battery Point, Hobart. The 3rd owner was Bruce Clayton (ex camera man with the ABC TV) and moored in Lindisfarne Bay. She was sold, actually purchased as a birthday present in 1992, for Greg Alomes of Hobart. Over the years there were shares of owners including Peter Keys who worked at MAST and is now a private marine surveyor. She was raced in Hobart on an irregular basis. I purchased Miri Winni in September 2004 and set about major restoration. Miri Winni is a delight to sail, either with a small stay sail, large Genoa and mainsail. She is regularly seen on the River Derwent or down the Channel. Given her construction and with continued maintenance I am just the owner at the moment, really the custodian for future owners. During past Wooden Boat festivals I am amazed at the interest shown in Miri Winni, her construction and history both by yachties and others and it is a pleasure to tell her story. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1976

Page 106 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Miss Eve

Name: Miss Eve Boat Owner: Peter & Una Rockliff Designer: Millkraft Builder: Millkraft Description: Miss Eve, a 19.81-metre raised deck motor yacht. Built in 1961 at the Brisbane River yard of Millkraft for well known Sydney businessman and racing identity the late Stan Fox. The Hannan family, of publishing fame, purchased her in 1975 before selling her in 1993 to current owners, Peter and Una Rockliff, founders of the successful Tasmanian seafood business Petuna Seafoods. The engines known as Gardner 6L3s, are mirrored – designed and built in the Gardner factory as a matched pair. They drive the vessel along at 10 knots cruising speed at 800 rpm, the fuel consumption is approx 22 litres an hour. Miss Eve’s hull, with its 5.66-metre beam, has a high raked stem and transom stern, with Queensland hardwood below the waterline and Oregon above. She is copper nailed and clenched throughout, with caulked seams and magnificent Beech-laid decks. She can accommodate 8 persons comprising three forward cabins; the Rosewood cabin, the Silver Ash cabin and the Queensland Maple cabin. Aft of the saloon is the master stateroom, comprising a double berth, all superbly done in polished, bird’s eye Maple. Miss Eve is all business, a coastal cruiser capable of undertaking lengthy voyages. Her steel 3,636 litre capacity fuel tanks give her a range well in excess of 1,000 nautical miles. LOD feet: 64 Hull Timber: Hardwood & Oregon Type of Boat: Motor Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1961 Misu

Name: Misu Boat Owner: David Kesson Designer: Neil Drake Builder: Neil Drake Description: Motor is a PMX 6 hp Yanmar diesel,hand crank, cruises at 5 knots. LOD feet: 14 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Fishing dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 1948

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 107 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Moby Dick

Name: Moby Dick Boat Owner: Malcolm & Anna McDougall Designer: A.C. Barber Builder: Charles Larsen Description: Moby Dick is now 84 years old and has been showing her self in all boat shows from the first in 1994 as a major attraction. She completed the 50th Sydney to Hobart race in remembrance of Rani the first out right winner of the Sydney to Hobart as Moby Dick and Rani are sisters. The late Jack Earl helped build Moby Dick for credits, so Charles Larsen could spend more time on the Kathleen. Kathleen and Moby Dick were built side by side in the same way and materials only difference was the design. Moby Dick was well known on Sydney Harbour and lived at the CYCA for many years. During the second World War the British Navy commandeered her for action to hunt down the invasion of the Japanese subs, she carried depth chargers on her flush deck and at this stage the motor was installed. Her cabin, made of 1 inch Teak, was constructed in the late 1960’s. In 1992, the boat came to Tasmania to live at the Lindisfarne Boatyard owned by Malcolm McDougall and has lived there till now. In that time, Moby Dick has many miles under her keel cruising the East Coast of Australia and Tasmanian waters . all boat shows she has attended many People have recognised her and shared their stories of the time spent sailing on her and what a good example of a classic sailing boat with decades of life still in her she is a must see boat withloads of character LOD feet: 35 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1934

Monty

Name: Monty Boat Owner: Living Boat Trust Inc Designer: Rear Admiral Victor Alexander Montagu Builder: RAN Dockyard Description: (Raid entry) Although many hundreds of Montagu whalers were built, very few remain on the water. This is the last Australian-built Montagu whaler still afloat in Tasmania, and is currently used as an expedition boat for the Living Boat Trust’s small boat Raids. The Montagu whalers were a multi-purpose ship’s boat, able to be rowed or sailed for utility or rescue purposes. With the introduction of modern utility and rescue vessels, the Australian Navy distributed their wooden whalers to Naval Cadet Units for youth training purposes. This example had been with T.S. Mersey before being restored by the Wooden Boat Centre in Franklin and then transferred to the Living Boat Trust, Franklin where it is used as an expedition and training vessel. The Wooden Boat Centre, Franklin partnered with Colony 47 and Huonville High School to undertake the restoration which provided a training environment for a diverse group of women, men and high school students. Cody Horgan, a very experienced shipwright from the Australian National Maritime Museum guided the restoration. Jon Vey-Cox and the Living Boat Trust also worked to complete the restoration for relaunch 2017. LOD feet: 27 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Montague Whaler State: Tasmania Built: 1953 Page 108 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Moonraker

Name: Moonraker Boat Owner: Lea & Bill Lawson Designer: Max Creese Builder: E McVilly and B Darcy Description: Moonraker is a Tasmanian boat designed and built in Tasmania for Tasmanian conditions. She is an all weather craft powered by a 4LW Gardiner diesel. LOD feet: 37 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1968

Moorina

Name: Moorina Boat Owner: Peter Lentz Designer: Dave O’May Builder: Dave O’May Description: Built from Huon Pine, originally with an open style cockpit that included a fish well, she was considered a gun boat in her time. Only sold by the O’May family when Dave passed away. The subsequent four owners appreciating her build quality and lineage have maintained her accordingly over the last sixty years. A major refit was undertaken approximately thirty years ago, shortening the rig and enlarging the cabin trunk to incorporate the pilothouse saloon amidships. Her current three cabin layout provides a sense of privacy and security throughout yet with excellent vision and natural light. The high quality fitout maintains the traditional timber features surrounded by the richness ofHuon Pine. Stepping down forward of the pilothouse into a second saloon cabin incorporating dinette, excellent galley, full bathroom and forward vee berth cabin. The owners cabin orsteerage is located aft and easily accessed through the pilothouse. While incorporating all the conveniences of a modern cruising vessel, Moorina’s powerful hull is easily driven by her easily handled cutter rig and assisted when called upon by her more than adequate 65 hp. diesel auxilliary. LOD feet: 40 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Pilothouse Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1957

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 109 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Murray Pass

Name: Murray Pass Boat Owner: Ben Pedersen Description: Murray Pass was originally built by Tim Phillips, Director of the Wooden Boat Shop (WBS), for himself and wife, Sally, and was the last of the Cheviot 32 built by WBS. A design reminiscent of the highly successful “Maine Lobster Boat,” the Cheviot 32, Murray Pass is the ultimate day boat or weekend cruiser. Murray Pass was trucked across the Nullarbor to WA before being taken 5000 miles up the West Coast across the top then back to Melbourne. Proven hull form delivers a fast, smooth ride with excellent handling and sea keeping qualities. A deceptively big, open boat, hosting a barbecue on board or evening cocktails for nine people can be accommodated easily. The cabin layout includes two berths, head, galley, fridge and a host of comfortable seating. For those who appreciate the artisanship of an all timber hull, the Cheviot 32 fits the bill perfectly. The wood and epoxy sheathed hull, combined with a traditional, solid wooden cabin construction laid decks, and bronze distinguish the Cheviot 32 from the ever growing sea of stainless and plastic. The Cheviot 32’s efficient hull design is paired with the Yanmar 6BY2 engine. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Hardwood & Cedar Top Pine Type of Boat: Launch State: Victoria Built: 2011

Page 110 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart My Girls

Name: My Girls Boat Owner: Vernon Powell Designer: Tim Philips Builder: Vernon Powell Description: Always a crowd favourite. A large open hull of beautiful form, balanced by the long elegantly curved bowsprit. A Couta boat under sail is the boat that people watching from on shore inevitably say “wow, look at that!” My Girls was built by myself (an amateur boat builder) in NW Tasmania. I used Tasmanian timbers and built her dry seamed and clenched with copper nails. No different to how Queenscliff Couta Boats were built between the Wars. I was “kick started” and supported in this build by Wayne Parr from the Wooden Boat Shop in Sorrento, Victoria. Indeed, we were able to set the keel, stem and stern post, with transom, place the molds and ribbands and frame the boat and complete the garboard in two weeks; a time frame that the old guys used in their hay day. Quite an achievement. From that point on, Wayne left me to myself, but returned for the centre case. My Girls maiden voyage was from Smithton to Hobart, via the the East Coast of Tasmania. Three men in a boat and what a trip. A big SE blow on the first night tested her well. But the highlight was an afternoon nudging 13.6 knots as we caught waves and scooted along in front of the sea breeze from Eddistone Point to St Helens. An open boat with a long keel and a gaff rig, a reef in the main and a number 3 jib up, sitting upright as you could wish for, with not an ounce of concern, and doing almost twice hull speed. A classic wooden boat that embodies the essence of sailing. Simplicity and beauty. And she’ll look after you in a blow. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Queenscliff Couta Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2007

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 111 Mystique 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Name: Mystique Boat Owner: Annie McComb Designer: Les Cartledge Builder: Cecil Cartledge Description: Mystique is carvel planked 25mm Huon boards, fastened with copper roves, all in excellent condition. Frames are of hardwood 190mm apart. Stringers and deck shelf are 90 x 50mm, very substantial for this size boat. Huon Pine deck is supported by substantial beams and is in excellent condition. Mystique was fitted out in 2010 with a new rig, motor and interior finished off to a very sigh standard in solid timber. A new Teak cockpit flooring adds to her beauty. She is a pleasure to sail and you can be comfortable in the knowledge that there is a well maintained 28hp Beta engine to power her along when you need that extra power. Mystique is maintained in beautiful conditions and turns heads in the marina. LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1983 Nancy

Name: Nancy Boat Owner: Tim Entwisle Designer: Pompei Builder: Pompei Description: Nancy first traveled to Hobart, crossing Bass Strait from Melbourne, in 2015. Being a Pompei, I considered she would be better placed at Kettering close to the channel and set about upgrading her to be able to cruise both in summer and winter. The renovations have taken some time but are well worth it. I enjoy travelling to Tasmania and spending time aboard and have done so regularly from 2015 onwards. Nancy is my new address in Tasmania, where I have met numerous friends and thoroughly enjoy my time both on sea and land. A number of Pompeis were entered in 2017 and served as an interest point for various people from Victoria, where Pompei boats are becoming increasingly sought after. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1983 Nattai

Name: Nattai Boat Owner: Philip Kennon & Stephen O’Bryan Designer: Noel Wilson Builder: Wilson Bros Description: Classic Wilson Bros motor-sailer with spacious, bright interior fitted out in Mahogany and Huon Pine. Boat number 82 (W82) in Built To Last “The story of the Shipwrights of Port Cygnet, Tasmania, and their boats 1863-1997”. Sails very well. Very pretty, look twice boat.

LODPage 112 feet: 34 Bull Timber: Huon Pine Classic Type Yachtof Boat: Association Sloop State: of Australia Tasmania Built: 1984 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Neptune

Name: Neptune Boat Owner: Christopher Creese Description: Neptune was based on plans for a 32ft canoe stern cutter that appeared in The Rudder magazine and owner/builder Bert Morris drew plans from this, making some alterations. He made a half model which he took to Perc Coverdale for approval before drawing up a final set of plans. She is constructed of Huon Pine planking and frames on a Stringy Bark keel. The deck is cut from timber left over from the construction of Amelia J. She was built in Bert’s back yard in New Town and launched in Constitution Dock about 1935. The rig was intended to be Marconi cutter, however the A Class racing yacht Sirene was being converted to Marconi at the time, so Bert bought her mast & rig, planned a gaff cutter rig of 600 square feet with a 6 foot bowsprit. The sails were made by sailmaker Jack Forsyth, the main, topsail, staysail and jib costing 25 pounds. She was fitted with a De Dion petrol engine. Bert raced her with the Bellerive Yacht Club and she came first in her division in the 1938 Centenary Royal Hobart Regatta. In the late1930s Bert made a number of alterations to make Neptune easier to handle when cruising including converting her to a ketch. In the mid 1950s Bert replaced the petrol engine with a 16 hp Lister diesel intending to use Neptune for scalloping and later built a well into her. These alterations tended to make her squat by the stern so Bert asked his friend Jock Muir to build a counter stern onto her as he was otherwise occupied building the boat Pedra Blanca. By the late 1960s Bert was building a smaller boat for himself (Seabird) and Neptune was put up for sale. Mark & Erika Creese purchased Neptune in 1970 and converted her back to a cruising yacht. First the well was removed and a new engine installed. Later the accommodation was improved and she was re rigged as a Marconi ketch. In 1990 Neptune was capsized in Marion Bay as she was heading to the canal. Mark, who was on his own, noticed several larger than usual waves approaching so he throttled back the engine to let them pass. To his surprise the waves steepened and began to break. Neptune ran down the steepening wave broached and rolled 360 degrees. Witnesses said that the boat completely disappeared under the breaking wave. Both Mark and the boat survived with very little injury. Since purchasing Neptune, the Creese Family have primarily cruised her in Southern Tasmania, mostly the channel and Norfolk Bay with trips up the east coast and over 30 trips to Port Davey. The early trips to Port Davey were a source of comment at Hobart yacht clubs as at that time very few yachts visited the southwest. For those who did, it was seen as a trip for the boys and not for families with young children. Neptune has also been actively raced up until recent times. Her performance compares favourably with similar boats and on the odd occasion she has even outperformed modern racing boats to the surprise of all. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1935

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 113 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Nyalene

Name: Nyalene Boat Owner: Vincent & Joanne Mallia Designer: Francis Herreshoff Builder: Jock Nicholson Description: Nyalene is a Herreshoff H28 design that cruised the East Coast of Tasmania, by the Nicholson family following her launch 1955. Nyalene is named after Jocks wife Eileen. Jock and George Nicholson were brothers and sons of Norman Nicholson (Builders and Boat Builders of Newtown). Jock was an apprentice shipwright at the Prince of Wales Commonwealth Government Shipyard where many Australian naval vessels were built for the Australian Navy and defence forces. Apart from his work at the Shipyards Jock built 16 boats up to 55ft in length. When Nyalene was sold by Jock to the Ramsay family in the 1960’s they chose to race her and she sailed in club races and many offshore events. She rarely led the fleet but sometimes fortune would smile and a little prize money would come her way (RYCT N/L 1973). Nyalene came 9th in the Queenscliff to Devonport race in 1965 and was the first Tasmanian boat on corrected time. Since then she sailed mostly in 3rd Div. races and has had the occasional success in Pennant Races and Regattas on the Derwent. Nyalene was used by Jock’s son Robert for cruising the Derwent and Channel areas in recent years. Robert recently sold Nyalene to Vince and Joanne Mallia who keep her at PoW Bay Marina and travel from country Victoria to use her for cruising the Derwent and Channel environs. They also visit Jo’s father Peter Eversham, a friend of Rob Nicholson, and whilst in Tasmania undertake maintenance on Nyalane. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: H28 Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1905

Page 114 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Nymphaea

Name: Nymphaea Boat Owner: David Coyle Designer: C Blunt Builder: C Blunt Description: Nymphaea was built by C. Blunt boatbuilders in Williamstown, Victoria in 1946. She was built as a commercial fishing vessel for Mr Tom Tucker for the cost of 375 pounds. In 1948 she was purchased by cray fisherman Mr Charles Williamson and his son Ken from Port MacDonnell S.A. The original engine was a Chev 4 petrol engine prior to availability of diesel engines. They used the gaff sails a lot in early days, especially with high cost of fuel following the war. The Williamson’s had a 65 pot licence in 1969 prior to that there was no pot limit.They used the centerboard a lot to steady the boat while pulling pots. Pots were pulled by hand (no gloves) and later a truck diff was converted into a winch which pulled the pots through a small opening in the bulwarks on the starboard side. Life was hard fishing for crays in the Great Southern Ocean and they fished up and down the coast and as far out as the Continental Shelf. Nymphaea lived on a swing mooring until 1973 at Port MacDonnell when David purchased her. Her original mast is the flag pole at Port MacDonnoll Bowling Club. The vessel, once acquired by David, was removed from the water for a keel up restoration. Over the next 40 years it has been relocated 3 times, each time being housed in a purpose built shed. It has been completely rebuilt by David (an experienced marine engineer) to the highest possible standard. The vessel planked in NZ Kauri on NZ Kauri frames and all ribs are original. Renowned boat builder Jack Gutierrez made a new rudder built of African Mahogany. A small cabin was refitted. All trims, keel and panelling are WA Jarrah. All new keel bolts are copper with handmade bronze nuts. All fastenings throughout are either gun metal or copper. All wooden blocks are handmade by David with sheaves hand turned. All nonferrous fittings were cast in bronze to David’s design and carry the vessels name in the casting and then machined to exacting standards. The interior has been rebuilt and presents in classical style of times past and all fittings and finishes are of superb quality. The engine is a Volvo Penta MD17C 35 hp marine diesel which was also completely rebuilt and installed by David. David has been conscious of all safety aspects of the vessel during the massive restoration as all open deck areas are protected by bulwarks which are topped by a lifeline on bronze stanchions and the large comfortable cockpit is fully self-draining. The new spars have been built of full length solid Oregon and these include mast, gaff, boom, jackyard and bowsprit and all rigging is of quality 316 stainless steel wire. Nymphaea was re-launched at Martha Cove, Safety Beach on Friday 13th November 2015 and berthed at Hidden Harbour Marina B5002. It is registered with the Couta Boat Association Inc. and its allocated sail number is C1946. Nymphaea attended the Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong in 2016 and awarded The Lyn & Larry Pardey Trophy for Wooden Yachts (under 30 ft) most deserving of recognition. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Gaff Rig Cutter State: Victoria Built: 1946

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Name: Olive May Boat Owner: Adam Richards Description: The Olive May was built in the boatyards at Queenscliff by Keith Cayzer and Christened in honour of his Grandmother. Olive May spent many decades as a fishing boat in the waters around Port Philip Bay. In the early 1990s John Stephenson bought her and enjoyed family time around Sorrento for 17 years. In 2012 the current owner purchased her from John noting that he had admired her lines when last for sale, but missed out to John. Now a very loved boat to her new family, Olive May underwent an extensive rebuild in 2014. She was stripped to the hull & ribs and rebuilt to the fine standard she deserves. Re-powered with 150hp Volvo Penta and added bow thrusters, she now has all the equipment appropriate for chartering Australian waters. Set up predominantly as a day boat, Olive May can accommodate 2-4 passengers for overnight or weekend adventures. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Family Day Boat State: Victoria Built: 1964 One and All

Name: One and All Boat Owner: DPTI Designer: Kell Steinman Builder: W G Porter & Sons Description: A group of volunteers, originally known as the Jubilee Sailing Ship Project working together with shipbuilder W.G. Porter & Son Pty Ltd, set about the construction of the tall ship STV One and All at North Haven, commencing work in 1982. Their objective was to provide opportunities for personal self discovery and self development, in an adventure learning environment, for young people in South Australia. Overseas experience showed that doing this on a working sailing ship would also provide opportunities to preserve the ship skills which were an important part of this State’s maritime history for much more than a century. The design of the ship was based on the original rig of an 1850’s brigantine. The hull was launched in December 1985 and the ship commissioned 5th April 1987. She joined the 1987-88 First Fleet Re- enactment and has been sailing regularly ever since. The ship is mainly used for personal development sail training voyages for youth but also offers day trips, twilight cruises and voyages for people of all ages. The many hundreds of people associated with those early days, and those who have taken an interest and contributed since are now known as the volunteer group Friends of The One and All Sailing Ship Inc (FOASS). Today, these members assist the operation of the ship, ensuring the continued accessibility to the people of South Australia and wider community.

PageLOD 116 feet: 139 Hull Timber: Timber carvel Classic Type Yacht of Association Boat: Tall of Ship Australia State: South Australia Built: 1987 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Oriole

Name: Oriole Boat Owner: Paul & Gwenyth Gray Designer: Richard Taylor Builder: Geoff Cuthbertson Description: Between 1935 and 1945, Arthur Cuthbertson built a number of wooden boats at his yard in Prince of Wales Bay before moving to Montagu Bay. He was joined in the building of wooden boats at Montagu Bay by his son Geoff, who subsequently took over the business in 1962 through to 1978. Between them, Arthur and Geoff built a number of boats listed on the Register of Australian and New Zealand Vessels by More Flapan, including Oriole. Over the years, renowned for their skill as master craftsmen, both Cuthbertsons became legendary, not only in the local Montagu Bay area, but across the State and nationally. It is ironic that the current Oriole owner, Paul Gray, was brought up in Montagu Bay and learned to swim off the Cuthbertson slipways. In his early childhood years, Paul would spend many hours playing about the waterfront adjacent to the boat yard. It was not unusual for Geoff to provide local boys with off cuts of Huon or Celery Top Pine from which they would make model boats. With a hole punched into the deck with an old rusty nail the boys were then able to insert a feather from a seagull thereby able to have the small craft sail across the bay. Geoff Cuthbertson built Oriole (named after a small North American bird) at his Montagu Bay yard in 1973. The quality of his workmanship is reflected in the excellent condition of the boat today, some 45 years after launch. The condition of the boat is also a reflection of the care and continued maintenance provided by her current and previous owners. Oriole is currently in the hands of her sixth owner, with all of the five prior owners having spent considerable time and money maintaining and upgrading the boat, both in it’s operational requirements, overall appearance and safety needs. This includes replacement/upgrading of sails, rigging, motor, timber and paint, electronics and navigational aids. Having dual helms, a comfortable wheel house, powerful 50hp motor, full galley and bathroom, and accommodation for five, Oriole is a true family cruising vessel, having cruised extensively throughout Southern and East Coast waters. She also took out the DSS Division 4 Pennant in 1979. A much admired vessel, Oriole was on show at the 2005, 2007 and the 2013 Australian Wooden Boat Festivals. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1973

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Osprey

Name: Osprey Boat Owner: Ben Tucker Designer: Bruce Kirby Builder: Unknown Description: 23 foot Norwalk Islands Sharpie (NIS23) is a shallow draft traditional American design, updated to use modern materials by Bruce Kirby. Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Cat-Ketch Sharpie State: Tasmania Built: 1995

Pandora

Name: Pandora Boat Owner: Paul Joseph Cullen Designer: Hand William Jr Builder: Chas Lucas Description: 108 years of history 108 years of sights through her portholes. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1910

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Name: Patternmaker Boat Owner: Stuart Dickson Designer: Adams Builder: Stuart Dickson Description: Patternmaker is a Joe Adams designed 40 ft cruising yacht. She is cutter rigged with a centerboard and center cockpit. This is a perfect configuration for cruising. Built in Geelong, Victoria and lauched 2011. Designed in the 80’s she is a moderate displacement of 9.2 tons. A beautiful boat to sail with an easily driven hull fine entry with plenty of vee in the hull. She is built using modern technology, I followed the Gougeon Bros process of a stripped planked hull with three layers of diagonal veneers over laminated floors. She has a traditional designed structure with keel, floors, stringers, with all structural components being laminated. West system epoxy resins where used exclusively in the build. The hull consists of one layer of King Billy Pine strips over which is laid three layers of diagonal Queensland Red Cedar. The strips are all edge nailed and glued as well as screwed to all the floors and bulk heads. The veneers where glued and stapled using stainless steel staples. The hull has one layer of dinal cloth to for wear and tear. The decks are plywood over Blackwood laminated beams and glassed over. On the deck the hatches, toe rails and other items are varnished Teak. She is an extremely strong boat and I love sailing her in the waters of Tasmania. Following the AWBF we will heading off with the VDL fleet for our second circumnavigation of Tasmania. LOD feet: 40 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine & Qld Red Cedar Type of Boat: Cutter State: Victoria Built: 2011

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Pattybelle

Name: Pattybelle Boat Owner: Graham & Pat Kent Designer: Thompson Builder: Ewen McVilley Description: The Pattybelle formerly the Wincanton is now in her 51st year of sailing Tasmanian and Bass Strait waters, her condition today is testimony of the quality work and fine timbers used by our shipwrights. her hull is is is sound as the day she was originally launched and much of the fittings and fixtures are as good as ever. A classic timber vessel that embodies everything one would expect in a cruising sea kindly and comfortable vessel. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1968

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Name: Peggy Boat Owner: Tom Saltmarsh Designer: Adrian Dean Builder: Adrian Dean Description: An experienced designer of many recreational craft, Adrian has had a life as a boat builder and as a teacher. This vast knowledge culminates in Peggy (named after his wife). For this vessel, Adrian drew on the work of American designer L Francis Herreshoff, particularly in relation to his design No. 71, Prudence. Both designs describe a simple yacht that will take her crew safely for hundreds of coastal miles, up shallow inlets and across deep bays, drawing envious eyes wherever she goes. As a weekender or pocket cruiser, Peggy excels and has become a much-loved family member. Rigged simply so that sailing time is maximised, Peggy is easily manageable by alone or can be enjoyed by 4 or 5 for a day sail. Her sail area is moderate and is set up as a low aspect gaff sloop combined with a bowsprit (although originally designed by Adrian as a Marconi sloop, Andy replaced this with the gaff rig). Peggy has a shallow draft that permits use in areas where larger boats cannot sail and slipping and maintenance operations are also enhanced. Being strongly constructed, she is a boat that would survive very strenuous conditions. Her easy bilges ensure strong and long lasting timbers, and her long bilge stringers meet with a comfortable ballast ratio to achieve a hull of high strength, integrity and security. The plans for Peggy were originally drawn in 2000 and she was constructed from 2006 to 2014 at the Wooden Boat Centre at Franklin, Tasmania where she was a working exhibit. She launched on 23 April 2014 and was brought to Hobart the following year. She is currently moored at the Derwent Sailing Squadron marina at Sandy Bay. Built on a celery top keel and deadwoods, a grown Huon pine stem, King Billy pine transom, steamed blue gum frames, one look inside Peggy is a picture of strength and of the many hours of skilled and hard work were needed to create this wonderful example of Tasmanian boat building expertise. The lead ballast joins with the Celery Top Pine keel in providing a very strong backbone for Peggy. Bronze bolts hold cleverly designed bronze cleats over the floors. Copper rivets fasten the 1″ Huon Pine planking the steam bent laminated Blue Gum ribs. The security of a dry ship is guaranteed through attention to detailed caulking and splining. The shaped sheer plank also indicates the practical thought put into the construction of Peggy. Thicker than the planking, these nicely tapered Huon pine gunwhales combine with a generous shelf inside to ensure enormous strength around the deck’s perimeter. Plywood was chosen for the deck and cabin roof in order to eliminate the need for frames, thus increasing the useable space below. LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Gaff-rigged sloop State: Tasmania Built: 2014

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Pelican

Name: Pelican Boat Owner: Lewis Golding Designer: Ted Higgs Builder: Ted Higgs Description: Faithfully restored Lorne couta boat now at home in Tassie. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: Kauri Pine Type of Boat: Couta Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1951

Pelican

Name: Pelican Boat Owner: John Marks Designer: John Settree Builder: John Settree Description: Converted fishing boat with trunk cabin over fish room. Pelican has many attractive design features. Has cruised to Kangaroo Is. SA and Lord Howe Is. LOD feet: 42 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Fishing boat conversion State: Victoria Built: 1979

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Name: Peri Boat Owner: The Maxwell Family Designer: A.C. Barber Builder: Ted Cawthorn Description: Historic Derwent Class Yacht Peri sail no. D16. Peri has participated in numerous AWBFs. Built late 1940s by Ted Cawthorn and launched 13 Feb 1950. Carvel planked hull – Huon Pine for the planking and frames, on a yellow-box keelson. Unusual for the D Class, Peri has a laid Celery Top Pine deck over plywood. Purchased 2017 by the Maxwell Family. Currently on the stands in Kettering undergoing comprehensive hull restoration Oct 2018. Hull currently being stripped of all antifouling and topside paint back to bare timber. Deck and mast yet to be refurbished. We love the design and construction of the Ds and love Peri. As her new owners/caretakers, we are slowly but lovingly restoring her and have had the good fortune of meeting so many people with past connections to Peri, including Phil Cawthorn wife of the late Ted Cawthorn who built and sailed Peri some 70 years ago. She was thrilled to see Peri stripped and in such sound condition and so grateful and proud that Peri will endure for many years to come! LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1950

Periplus

Name: Periplus Boat Owner: Gary Wilson Designer: Lyle Hess Builder: Mark Searle Description: A copy of Lin and Larry Pardey’s Seraffyn. Originally rigged as a conventional Bermudan cutter, she was rigged down in 2017 and with a new mast and yard (made by local shipwright Chris Burke, also the owner of a Lyle Hess cutter) Periplus was rigged with a single square sail. The sail was made in cotton by Melbourne sail maker Rick Mitchell. Standing rigging is manila and running rigging is hemp and manila. LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum & White Beech Type of Boat: Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1983

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Name: Peter Robyn Boat Owner: Rebecca & Jeff Murray Designer: Nigel Warington Smyth O.B.E. Builder: McNalley Description: Built by Stebbings in 1948, the 30′ 7″ sloop Restive was designed by Nigel Warington Smyth O.B.E. for use by himself and his family. The requirement was for a modern cruising yacht, large enough for three people but designed for easy handling by himself and his wife Barbara. The specification and cruising qualities of Restive were described in detail in earlier editions of Eric Hiscock’s Cruising Under Sail (1950) as the little big ship. The designer kept Restive for many years. Restive has a couple of sister ships. Black Cygnet was built in 1949 by the Falmouth Boat Construction Ltd (which was owned by Nigel Warington’s brother, Rodney Warington Smyth), and nowadays is based on the Tamar in the United Kingdom. Peter Robyn, by contrast, was built in Sydney, Australia in 1950, without the blessing of the designer, and currently sails from Hobart, Tasmania. Peter Robyn was recently featured in the National Historic Ships UK 2017 Calendar. Once notified of our inclusion in this leading UK maritime publication we posted on our blog Peter Robyn makes Miss May! The UK National Historic Ships Register makes mention of the boat due to her lineage described above. The featured photo was taken at dawn in Sandy Bay and is a long exposure of the dew- covered deck, the surrounding moored boats and the delightful Derwent horizon at sunrise. Restive has sailed all over the world and was last known to be in Vancouver, Canada, where her mast was restored. Nigel Warington Smyth served with the Royal Navy during World War Two. Nigel, along with his brother Nevil, designed surf-boats of various types that could land on French beaches to extricate and repatriate downed allied airmen. In the words of the previous owner, Peter Robyn was built in Sydney by McNalley, who had a furniture business. The quality of the builder’s craftsmanship is quite evident. It is named after his two children, Peter and Robyn. The launching took place in 1950. In 1949, an article appeared in Yachting Monthly that I believe provided the inspiration for her building. Hiscock, in his 2nd edition of the Cruising Under Sail, makes possible reference to this fact. Peter Robyn is Spotted Gum framed with full length Oregon planking. She was re-engined and restored (top side) in 2016 and has a Nanni 30hp diesel and a 3 bladed prop. There are three berths (two in the saloon plus a quarter). She is a delight to sail single handed and is often seen on day trips all over the Derwent Estuary and longer trips to the D’Entrecasteaux Channel. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Masthead Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1950

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Name: Posh Boat Owner: Barry Jones Designer: Hankinson & Glen L Builder: Barry Jones Description: Constructed from hard shine cold moulded ply using King William Pine, Western Red Cedar and Huon Pine. LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Plywood & Western Red Cedar Type of Boat: Power Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2014 Preana

Name: Preana Boat Owner: Preana Trust Designer: Unknown Builder: Robert Inches Description: SY Preana was built for the Gibson flour milling family. After a chequered history in Hobart it was rescued in 1993 by the Preana Trust and restored. LOD feet: 50 Hull Timber: Tasmanian Oak Type of Boat: Victorian gentleman’s steam yacht State: Tasmania Built: 1896 Premier

Name: Premier Boat Owner: Tony Jory Description: Built as a work boat for the Swards, carted timber and fruit for many years up and down the Huon and Channel, then sold to the government who refitted her. A 5 cyl gardner diesel engine and gearbox was fitted. She was used for many rescues and guarded the Queen Mary whilst in port, with a machine gun mounted on her bow. After many years of service she was sold and the launch Vigilant took over. She was then sold to Graeme Coaker in Launceston and following that to Kevin O’grady who was a bikie and was drug running with her. Tony Jory then purchased her and did a full rebuild and is now a pleasure boat. The only original timber left is the keel and bilge stringers. The rebuid took 15 years to finish with the help of D. White, D. Smith and R. Dahms and re launched in 1997.

LOD feet: 52 Hull Timber: Blue Gum &Classic Celery Yacht Top AssociationPine Type of AustraliaBoat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: Page 1922 125 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Presto Name: Presto Boat Owner: Peter & Jennine Frost Designer: Bruce Kirby Builder: Bill Feeney Description: We are the 3rd owner of Presto (since 2011) buying her from Qld. We have trailered her as far north as Shark Bay 5 times and spent up to 3 weeks onboard there at times single handed. She is very easily sailed one up. In 2015 we brought her to Tasmania and sailed extensively, sailing in Maquarie Harbour, Lake Pedder, the Tamar, Huon & Derwent Rivers & D’entrecasteaux Channel. We equiped her to be suitable for extensive coastal cruising as well as being suitable for an on road “caravan”, installing eutectic refrigeration, electric anchor winch, slab reefing, solar panels, led lighting plus many other useful features. Presto is a very safe yacht to sail with a large deep cockpit, all activities such as raising, lowering & reefing sails, deploying anchor can be done without leaving its shelter. She cruised comfortably at 6 Kts under sail or 4 stroke outboard which is hidden in the stern and raised & lowered using an electric drill. Being shallow drafted she is able to be used in very shallow water, drawing 300mm we have been able to explore many parts of Shark Bay denied to most other yachts & this is aided by having a pivoting centreboard & lifting (Murray River) rudder. In summary Presto is the perfect vessel for coastal, river, lake & estuarine cruising, a similar NIS26 has cruised around the Kimberley coast, a trip we are planning for 2019. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Marine Ply Type of Boat: Cat Ketch State: West Australia Built: 1996/ 2001

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Prudence

Name: Prudence Boat Owner: Alex Jerrim Description: Prudence is a unique vessel for Australian water’s, we’ve yet to spot another one like her in this country. She’s a boat more typical of northern Europe with her cod bow and mackerel stern and no, she’s not a lifeboat as many think. Look closer at the hull and you see a utility sailing hull of the late 1800s. She’s made of Teak, has lifting rings in her stem and stern post, has a huge carrying capacity for her size and a plugged centreboard slot in her keel. These facts point to a ship’s boat used for ferrying people or cargo ashore. How and when she arrived in Australia we have no idea. At the last AWBF we sought information from visitors. We learned much of her 2002 restoration at the Wooden Boat School, but nothing previous to that. Her earlier restoration ended in a life of neglect. She sat unused on the Huon River south of Franklin for more than a decade. She appeared in Old Dogs of Tasmania and was probably snapped by many a camera. Even neglected she made a beautiful picture on the still river. There’s now been four more steady years of restoration work put into her, hopefully for all to see at the Festival. LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Teak Type of Boat: Gaff Cutter State: Tasmania Built: c.1900

Puddleduck

Name: Puddleduck Boat Owner: Levings Family Description: For a clinker dinghy, Puddleduck has an unusually blunt bow above the waterline. Would love to know who built it and the history. LOD feet: 15 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Clinker Dinghy State: Tasmania

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Rachel Christine

Name: Rachel Christine Boat Owner: Rodney & Christine Clark Designer: Malcolm Fergusson Builder: Malcolm Fergusson Description: Last heavy constructed fishing boat built in Tasmania. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Fishing Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2002

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Name: Rambler Boat Owner: Rob de Little Designer: Ray Kemp Builder: Tom Andrewartha Description: Rambler was the dream of well known Tasmanian builder Tom Andrewartha and was built in his workshop located in Letitia Street opposite the North Hobart football ground, she was launched on the 29th of May 1971. I understand he had pestered the designer, Ray Kemp for the drawings of her hull, and finally persuaded him to part with the line drawings for $50. Tom then added his own interpretation of how she should look above deck level. Her current configuration incorporating a “doghouse” has made her a very comfortable vessel particularly in bad weather, and was a major consideration when I decided to buy her. Tom used her extensively on the Derwent and beyond entering her in numerous pipe opener and camp fire cruises, evidenced by the display of her successes adorning the cabin interior. Tom also used her for family cruises in the Channel and on the East Coast. She was a well known vessel in southern Tasmania during the 70’s and 80’s. As I understand it she was sold by her owner builder to John Sharman who then onsold her to Nick Cable, a Victorian resident, in 2003 Nick used her for local cruising for a time before taking her to Victoria, where she was moored when I bought her. Nick Cable renamed her “Lady Virginia” but I reverted back to her original name “Rambler” when I took ownership in 2017? A delivery cruise across Bass Strait in September 2007 proved the perfect way to get to know this beautiful motor sailer. While the weather wasn’t particularly spiteful there was plenty to test her capabilities and she handled it beautifully. Back in her home state but this time with a home port of Port Arthur, she has been used regularly for day trips on Port Arthur Bay and for extensive cruising on the East Coast as far north as Wineglass Bay. In February 2015 we cruised to Port Davey and had a wonderful week in that stunning wilderness. Rambler has participated in 5 Australian Wooden Boat Festivals to date, all in the hands of her current owner and has on at least one occasion been dubbed the party boat by those tied up around her, on account of the number of people continually on the boat, both friends, and anyone who showed an interest, who were invited on board for a look and, more often than not, a drink. We are very happy to show her off down below as she can’t be fully appreciated from the wharf. Following each AWBF, we have taken the opportunity to incorporate a week long cruise on the return trip to Port Arthur, usually down the Channel but as mentioned in 2015, also to Port Davey. Rambler is approaching her 50th birthday, she doesn’t show her age being still in superb condition but she does show the hull style of her period very well as a great example of the popular fishing boat lines of the day. She is much admired by those who appreciate a boat with classic lines and she frequently attracts complimentary comments. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: King Billy PineClassic Type Yacht of Boat:Association Sloop of State: Australia Tasmania Built: 1971 Page 129 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Renaissance

Name: Renaissance Boat Owner: Peter Clarke Designer: Garry Stewart Builder: Garry Stewart Description: The boat has sailed extensively in Bass Strait, including to Kangaroo Island & has circumnavigated Tasmania. Recently she’s had a major refit. LOD feet: 37 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Victoria Built: 1987

Resurrection

Name: Resurrection Boat Owner: Tony & Chataigne Coulter Designer: Alan Wright Builder: Hans Wilkens Description: Resurrection is an Alan Wight designed Hanni, originally called Storm Boy. Predecessor to the popular Nova 28. It was built on Flinders Island before being moved and sailed out of Smithton, Tasmania. The ships wheel was pulled out of a barn and came off an unknown Flinders Island ship wreck, believed to be over 100 years old. Storm Boy was sunk in a blow of Cows, Western Port Bay Vic in 1998. She sat on the hard at Yaringa Marina until we bought her in 2013. She was relaunched in May of this year and renamed Resurrection. The boat has had a total rebuild and is glass over ply. As far as I am aware she is the only Hanni left in Australia and even rarer by being fin keeled, most are bulge keeled. There are still a few sailing in New Zealand. She is slightly longer than the original plan and is cutter rigged. The original owner and builder, Hans Wilken,s did multiple crossings of Bass Strait in all weather, which is a credit to its design. It is set up as a short to medium term cruiser. LOD feet: 29 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Sloop/Cutter State: Victoria Built: 1992 Page 130 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Rhona H

Name: Rhona H Boat Owner: Julie Porter & Charles Burns Designer: Ned Jack Builder: Ned Jack Description: SV Rhona H is now a Hobart icon; recognised as setting sail from Sullivans Cove year round as the oldest and smallest operating Tall Ship in Hobart. She was professionally built by Tasmanian shipwright Ned Jack in the best of timbers, Huon Pine over Celery Top frames. This 52ft Huon Pine fishing vessel was built for Frere Youl of Symmons Plains in 1942. She was sold around 1946 to Max Hardy, a Stanley fisherman. Max helped start the crayfish industry in North West Tasmania when he discovered crays on the rugged coast off northwest Tasmania. SV Rhona H fished commercially until converted for sail training and charter work in 1988. She has been across Bass Strait many times, travelling across to Queenscliff as well as to King and Flinders Islands. Our Vision “Heritage Sailing Tasmania’s vision is to integrate traditional sailing, conservation and health promotion in Tasmania. We do this by aiming to provide our guests and all who sail with us a unique and personalised Tasmanian experience as they sail on an historic Tasmanian Tall Ship in our beautiful waterways.” We promote treating yourself to a memorable Sightseeing and Sailing Cruise, as well as seeing the art of traditional sailing and skills: knots, splicing and fancy rope work. An Historic Vessel built in Tasmania SV Rhona H is a classic gaff-rigged vessel built in 1942 in Tasmania. It is made from the best Tasmanian timber: Huon Pine hull, Celery Top decks and Tasmanian Oregon masts. It has traditionsl rigging, 2 timbermasts, 6 traditional handmade sails and authentic wooden blocks. No winches or roller furlers and it is sailed the traditional way. The SV Rhona H is a part of Tasmania’s history. SV Rhona H is environmentally friendly. We use sail power most of the time as opposed to engine power. We sometimes have to use the engine however it only uses 4 litres of diesel an hour. We emphasise conservation especially marine conservation. LOD feet: 44 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Traditional Gaff Rigged Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1942

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Name: Riawe Boat Owner: Lindon & Linda Haigh Designer: Ned Jack Builder: Ned Jack Description: Riawe’s story is a reflection of 107 years of significant Tasmanian maritime history. Riawe has had more adventures and near misses than should be expected of any vessel. Beginning in a minor but important role with Tasmania’s most famous maritime air transport and pastoral company, the Holymans, followed by many eventful years as a Tamar River ferry, a stint of active service as HMAS Riawe 772 protecting Tasmanian shores during World War II and a long and not uneventful life as a fishing boat with a number of masters. She has seen most of Tasmania’s coastline and racked up numerous scraps with other boats, rocky outcrops, sandbars, thieves and the maritime authorities. Riawe has an impressive track record as a survivor. Designed and built by Ned Jack at his Trevallyn boatyard on the Tamar River, Launceston, as a Bass Strait island trade oil launch – work vessel for the Holyman Brothers Pty Ltd in 1912. Riawe was commissioned to service Waterhouse Island and Ninth Island primarily moving stock. Her shallow draft was an enormous benefit over the larger trading vessels working the treacherous island service in the Furneaux group. In 1916, the Holymans transferred Riawe to Robbins Island, until being sold to Gordon Allison on the Tamar River in 1924. As a river work boat, or oiler, Riawe plied animals, firewood, crates of apples and general supplies. Her primary function was that of a passenger ferry from Beauty Point to Georgetown, although she tendered the larger vessels that anchored ‘in the stream’ off Beauty Point wharf. Gordon worked Riawe until 1950, including a stint in the RAN. In January 1942, OL Riawe was requisitioned by the Dept. of Navy. She was mobilised into full time Naval service and commissioned HMAS Riawe 772 with Gordon Allison as CPO. She patrolled the coast between Low Head and the Mersey non stop for 2 years with only one enemy contact Gordon’s’ son and son-in-law took ownership as a pleasure craft from 1950 -1952, and prepared her for commercial fishing. Riawe was a commercial fishing boat as Lady Pam for 52 years. She worked the entire coast line of Tasmania for crays, and in the later years netted a variety of fish species. Also had a stint cray fishing out of Portland, Victoria. Now retired as a private motor launch since 2004. Uniquely for a vessel this age, no major restoration, refit or rebuild has been necessary Some facts: – in 2004 was Australia’s oldest working fishing boat in survey – is the oldest boat afloat that has been commissioned in the RAN – the last of the famous Holymans fleet of vessels – once carried 62 passengers as a ferry – once carried 90 sheep to Waterhouse Island – up to 62 cray pots on board when in Portland – deterred a Japanese submarine off Greens Beach – laid the first telephone cable from Beauty Pt to Georgetown – towed the piles for the first Bell Bay wharf Riawe is recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a significant historical maritime vessel LODPage 132 feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Classic Type Yachtof Boat: Association Motor Launch of Australia State: Tasmania Built: 1912 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

RnR

Name: RnR Boat Owner: Roger Harwood & Rodda Trevaskis Designer: Eric Simes Builder: Roger Harwood Description: RnR was initiated as a retirement project for easy handling and comfort for a couple of senior citizens who aren’t quite past it, yet. The boat was designed by Eric Simes from NSW to our requirements after seeing his smaller boat, Quest ,designed and built by Eric at the 2007 WBF. He drew a set of lines up and we twigged it and finished with RnR as she is today. Construction was started part time in 2011. After retirement in 2014, work was continued full time in the hope that she would be launched before the 2017 AWBF. However this was not to be and RnR was launched in May of the same year. As we wanted to enjoy the boat a boarding platform was fitted for easy access for arthritic joints and also an electric drum anchor winch, operated from the cockpit makes easy handling. The enclosed cockpit also adds to our comfort. A bottle of the doings can be found hidden in an insert in the King Billy and Huon pine table. Don’t tell anybody, that’s our secret. The interior has leather upholstery and she is very comfy and cosy. And that’s all we have to say about that! LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Gentlemens Launch State: Tasmania Built: 2017

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Name: Roama Boat Owner: Mark Loschiavo Designer: Slater NZ Builder: Searles Description: Everyone who came aboard at the previous festivals was struck by the experience! This is what the AWBF is all about, classic and timeless yachts displaying the care and maintenance that keeps them and our maritime heritage alive! “I just love to stroke the wood!” ” This boat is a living memory” ” We were on this yacht in Mooloolaba/ Melbourne/Sydney/Gibraltar, thanks for keeping it going!” “Do you still keep the whisky in the same place? Is there any left?” Roama has sailed the globe with previous owners, now carries friends and visitors around the waters of the Derwent, Huon and D’Entrecasteaux Channel. Wherever we go, people appreciate and admire the boat and spontaneously tell us so. It’s an enriching and encouraging activity! LOD feet: 51 Hull Timber: Jarrah Type of Boat: Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1950

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Name: Rose Boat Owner: Jeremy Clowes Designer: Jeremy Clowes Builder: Jeremy Clowes Description: Rose is inspired by the laco designed and built couta boats of Port Phillip Bay using the methods of construction perfected by Alec laco. She is designed to fit within the coat boat club in Sorrentos set of rules and has competed in some division 2 races with them& at Cygnets twilight Tuesdays over summer. Since sailing south to Cygnet in 2013 she has been a regular cruising on the channel with my young family who have learned to row, sail, fish, dive, navigate, maintain boats etc aboard her, learning all about this beautiful island. After the Wooden Boat Festival 2017, we had our most memorable experience sailing in company with Skomer to Port Davey in this open cockpit boat.Two shipwright friends of mine accompanied me from Southport, right up the tiny creek to the jetty at Melaleuca, only made possible with Roses shallow draft and 30 foot length. (the creek must only be 36 foot wide) The next day my kids flew in and we had the 5 best days of the summer to explore what, arguably, must be one of the worlds greatest wilderness areas. My partner Anneke flew in to join me for the return journey with a stop at New Harbour. Rose is equipped for camp cruising with its 6′ headroom cabin and 4 bunks but still has a huge cockpit. Every summer when the couta and squid appear I suspect she would be one of only a handful of the existing coat boats to practice fishing under sail. With the boat pointing to windward the balanced helm allows you to work 2-3 trawling lines and when its on, couta and squid hit the lures as quick as you can get them in. Finally I/we look forward every two years (especially our kids and their friends) to the morning of the parade of sail. Waking up in Barnes Bay, surrounded by tall ships and wooden boats of all sorts, then quietly making our way up the channel. Kids dressed as pirates then catching the sea breeze with the rest of the armada / floatilla into Hobart. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Couta Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2009

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Rosebud

Name: Rosebud Boat Owner: Rodney & Loris Barton-Johnson Designer: Ken Lacco Builder: Ken Lacco Description: After we purchased Rosebud, subsequent to her being burnt in 2003, we have completely replaced and raised the deck to make it full head height below deck. This involved adding new ribs and planking with Tasmanian timbers. We have undertaken extensive works and had to learn new shipwright skills (eg steaming), undertaking all the work ourselves, based in Prince of Wales Bay. The main engine a Detroit 892 2-stroke diesel, located mid-ship in a walk-in engine room, was not damaged by the fire and remains operational. It was painted and fitted with a new specially-fabricated exhaust system. The original generator was re-built after the fire. Rosebuds current re-fit includes a queen sized cabin next to a cabin with double bed and 2 bunks sharing a bathroom. A double bow cabin with ensuite makes this boat able to sleep 8 people below deck plus 2 above in a double convertible lounge. A large saloon area, galley and helm have been designed and constructed on the upper level. The galley features a full-sized fridge and freezer, oven and hotplates and range-hood with ample storage. The helm is adjacent to the galley featuring a Raymarine plotter and a modified dental chair as the captains chair. The conversion of this boat from a commercial vessel to our private cruiser has been a labour of love for us over the last 15 years. LOD feet: 60 Hull Timber: Jarrah & Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1946

Page 136 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Rosehill

Name: Rosehill Boat Owner: Tony & Sallie Creese Description: Rosehill is a 14’6″ x 6′ beam Huon Pine double diagonal planked dinghy powered by her original 5 hp Simplex petrol engine. She was built by Max Creese for Rupert Watchorn about 1952 and is named after Watchorns property in the lower Midlands area. She was purchased by Walter Creese about 1957 and continued to be used on the River Derwent including an excursion up river as far as the Jordan River. When not in use she was stored on davits under the dinghy sheds on Chevertons jetty (now part of the DSS complex). In 1958 Walter and his brother Eric took Rosehill under her own power to her new home, a purpose built slip and boatshed in Eaglehawk Bay where Walter was building a shack. In the early 1960s Mark Creese raised the topsides by 6″ and built a fish well into her. For 60 years she has been used by 4 generations of the Creese family for excursions around the Norfolk Bay area. LOD feet: 14 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 1952

Rowella

Name: Rowella Boat Owner: Ivan Chugg Description: SL Rowella restored by C9 Marine, machinery, designed and built by owner. Engine is a horizontal steeple compound. Auxiliary engine is vertical double acting simple engine. Wood fire boiler is a single drum water tube. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Steam Boat State: Tasmania

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 137 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Sabot

Name: Sabot Boat Owner: Andrew & Janice Fahey Description: Comfortable custom built gaff rig in Nova Scotia. Sailed across Pacific Bahamas, St Thomas through Panama Canal to Galapagos Island, Tahiti, Fiji through to Bundaberg Australia. Sabot was then sold to Andrew Fahey and has cruised down the East Coast of Australia to Tasmania. Sabot has extensively cruised the coast of Tasmania. LOD feet: 43 ull Timber: Mohogany Type of Boat: Gaff Ring Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1958

Safari

Name: Safari Boat Owner: Powell Family Designer: Fairmile Builder: Halvorsen Description: MV Safari Ex RAAF 02-15 WW2 Pilot Recovery boat 1943. Halvorsen built 50 foot Double Diagonal Mahogany After serving her time as a air rescue/pilot recovery boat in WW2 , Safari featured in the hit TV series Riptide and was adorned with many a bathing beauty and the then famous American actor Ty Hardin. She went on to become ‘Safari Cruises’ operating out of Neutral Bay, Sydney Harbour. Owned and loved by the Powell family, Safari has just undertaken a complete restoration. Powered by two newly fitted 2 stroke Commer Diesel engines,”Knockers”, she cruises comfortably at 10 knots unlike her glory days when she planed at 30 knots!!! LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Mahogany Type of Boat: Motor launch State: Tasmania Built: 1943

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Salamander

Name: Salamander Boat Owner: Harry Rigney Designer: Lock Crowther Builder: Philip Diemar Description: Salamander is a Kraken 40, designed by Lock Crowther. Her famous sibling-ships include Captain Bligh and Ringo. Salamander is converted from her original racing specs to a loping cruiser, designed to maintain 20+ knots boat-speed on passage-making. She is of asymetrical float design, such that the windward float lifts from the water underway upwind, and the cross-section of the leeward float at water level acts as a foil to drive her to windward. Lock Crowther designed her as an upwind multi. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Marine Ply Type of Boat: Masthead sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1972 Salamis

Name: Salamis Boat Owner: Alec Bailey Designer: Unknown Builder: Unknown Description: I bought Salamis about three weeks ago and will be doing a bit of a refurbishment on the deck and top sides. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1946

Sally

Name: Sally Boat Owner: David Travalia Designer: Lyle Hess Builder: Cedric Bennett & David Travalia Description: Sallys origins are English working boats such as Falmouth Quay punts and Bristol cutters built here to embrace fine Tassie timbers and craftsmanship. LOD feet: 26 Hull Timber: Huon & Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Masthead cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1987 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 139 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Saona

Name: Saona Boat Owner: Ben & Jane Marris Designer: Phillip Rhodes Builder: Charles Lucas Description: Saona was the last boat built by Charles Lucas in his own yard at Battery Point. She was designed by Phillip Rhodes . We understand that only two boats were built to this graceful design. The other operates under charter in Chesapeake Bay. Saona is unusual in having a centreboard, giving her a shallow draft but good performance under sail. Saona was built for Mr. Maldon Weston of Austins Ferry. She was subsequently owned by Mr. Len Nettlefold who held the agency for General Motors in Tasmania. He had the quaint dog house build aft of the mizzen mast and it is said that the design for this was drawn from the cab of a Chevrolet truck. It is a modification which has certainly proved its worth in Southern Ocean waters. In 1951 Saona was purchased by Vice Admiral Sir Guy Wyatt, shortly after he had retired as the Royal Navy Hydrographer. Sir Guy, often with his friend Justice Sir Peter Crisp, undertook numerous expeditions around Tasmania. From her deck he prepared many beautiful charts of Tasmanias more remote bays and harbours, some of which had not previously been surveyed in detail. With two knights of the realm aboard she was sometimes known as The Knight Cart In 1976 Sir Peter Crisp, with a crew, whose average age was 65, cruised Saona to New Zealand, circumnavigating both islands. Over the next few years ownership was passed within the family and friends to reside with the Martin and Maddock families who continued to cruise southern Tasmanian waters. 1993 Saona was purchased by her present owners, Ben and Jane Marris of Kettering, Tasmania. 1998 she participated in the Tall Ships Race from Sydney to Hobart. 2001 she circumnavigated Tasmania. 2003 she won the cruising division of the Australian Three Peaks Race. She has featured in two episodes of Gourmet Farmer, taking Mathew Evans and his colleagues for a four day cruise around Maria Island. She has participated in all Australian Wooden Boat Festivals. She features in the 2019 Wooden Boat Calendar. She is often to be seen cruising in Tasmanian waters and races regularly with the Kettering Yacht Club.

LODPage 140 feet: 40 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Classic Type Yachtof Boat: Association Cutter rigged of Australia Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1936 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Sapphire

Name: Sapphire Boat Owner: Gareth Gunn & Anna Youl Designer: Swallow Boats Builder: Andrew Denman Description: The design is from Swallow Boats of Wales, UK, and is a smaller version of their 19′ & 20′ craft. Primarily intended as a day boat for cruising sheltered waters, the Australian built boats have been adapted for our conditions. Our Bayraider 17 was built in 2012 by Denman Marine of Kettering, Tasmania. Andrew Denman accommodated changes we wished from the standard layout which were: Fitting a diaphragm bilge pump so that ballast water can be removed while in the water and not having to make way. The two times that we use this pump most are when preparing to return to trailer the boat with a sea or surge running. Without the water ballast the boat is easier to handle and damage is less likely. The other occasion is where the boat is beached to take on guests, with everyone aboard the water is pumped out and boat got off the sand easier. Fitting a pair off oar rowlock sockets on either side of the transom. These are used for securing a sculling oar and for leading outboard a stern anchor when running into a beach landing. My wife Anna comes from a shore based background. In contrast I have spent most of my life at sea; variously I have cruised extensively by sailboat, crewed in trawling & purse seining vessels, charter & trading vessels. After 4 years in the RAN I then began a 16 year career in Australian merchant vessels. Our different backgrounds complement each othe in determining how & where to sail. The Bayraider 17 was chosen for the traditional styling which is combined with modern safety & practical features. The craft & rig are easily handled by one person with set up and launching accomplished in a short time. The ply/epoxy construction incorporates a double bottom, combined with the copious buoyancy and self-draining interior this enhances safety and increases versatility. The ability to fill the double bottom greatly enhances stability while a thoughtful design feature is a step incorporated into the rudder for boarding from the water. The rig features a balanced foresail boom which allows self-tacking; the lines are easily handled by one person while there are enough to keep younger crew members occupied. The Storm Bay sails of Kettering are in a classic cream colour. For most of the time the mainsail is stowed by rolling it from leach to luff & securing with ties. In a strong breeze the topmast/yard is brought down to reduce windage and allow further securing. Last year we increased the suit of sails with a leg of mutton mainsail and a hanked headsail for winter sailing in Bass Strait. The sails were made by Steve Walker, and are in cream cloth as for the other sails. With no yard, the mainsail is more easily handled and reefed in fresh conditions The water cooled Suzuki DF 2.5 outboard drives the boat along well, is quiet, and does not heat up the outboard well area like air-cooled motors. After a day on the water a purpose made tank is rolled beneath the stern, connected to a garden hose & the motor run & flushed in place. LOD feet: 17 Hull Timber: Marine Plywood Type of Boat: Day Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 2012

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 141 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Sara Jane

Name: Sara Jane Boat Owner: Mal Williams Designer: Mike Roberts Builder: Mark Singleton Description: Green Island 15 designed by Mike Roberts of Headland Boats, QLD for use around Moreton Bay. Sara Jane has a Gunter sloop rig with a swinging centreboard, two water ballast chambers and solid ballast just forward of the mast step. Fore and aft buoyancy chambers and fore and side decks ensure she performs well in all weather for her size. Built in 2006 by Mark Singleton for Jim Davis and his wife Jane Sara, of Hobart. Mark tweaked the design slightly to add a little more functionality and aesthetics that make Sara Jane an outstanding example of the Green Island and a joy to sail. Jim and his wife spent many years sailing Sara Jane around the Derwent before relocating to Melbourne. Due to family circumstances, Jim reluctantly put Sara Jane up for sale which is where I first encounted her. She was well looked after and had the attributes I wanted for our planned sailing adventures in Port Phillip with my son. We take out Sara Jane often to explore Port Phillip, launching from various locations around the bay from Werribee to Mornington. Always packed with fishing tackle and ready to hove-to when the opportunity arises. On the odd occasion when the weather has turned inclement, she has always returned us safely to home port. LOD feet: 15 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Gunter Sloop State: Victoria Built: 2006

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Name: Saraband Boat Owner: Doug Hicks Designer: Abeking & Rasmussen Builder: Carl Seeger Description: The 10 metre Rasmussan design was made famous in 1937 when Captain Schlimbach at the age of 60 sailed the yacht “Stoertebekker III” single-handed across the North Atlantic from Lisbon to New York in 57 days. Captain Schlimbach described sailing “Stoertebekker III” – like a cradle in the soft hands of a kindly mother. Carl Seeger, an engineer with a love for wood and yachts, started the Abeking & Rasmussan design yacht we now know as Saraband. With his qualifications as an engineer in a refinery it gave him lots of experience in moulding. He decided to build his own yacht from drawings he acquired through Uffa Fox- Thoughts on Yachts and Yachting. He purchased and shipped out Oregon logs from Canada, which allowed the planking to be done in full lengths. He commenced lofting in 1946 and in 1947 he married and started a family – his project had to take a step back. Arthur Webb took a keen interest in the project and in 1947 purchased the yacht at the stage where the vessel was framed (Spotted Gum) and the keel step completed, ready for planking with the wood supplied by Carl Seeger. The vessel was transported to Queenscliff/Geelong where the shipwright Gil Albutt completed the planking and fit out. She was launched in 1950 and named Saraband by Arthur Webb. Arthur Webb QC was a prominent member of the yachting fraternity – he was a member of numerous clubs such as Royal Brighton, Royal Yacht Club of Victoria, Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and a founding member of the Queenscliff Cruising Yacht Club. His lifelong interests where around ocean racing and restoring wooden yachts. 1960-1967 she was owned by Ken Novits, a member of Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, and sailed in many regattas; Melbourne to Devonport, Queenscliff to Waratah Bay and many Bay races. During the 2015 & 17 Wooden Boat Festivals we had many visits from sailors that had sailed her over this time. In 1987 Saraband was in a sorry state berthed at Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron. Being a lover of wooden boats I recognised her beautiful lines beyond the state she was in and that she needed to be saved. I have been able to restore her back to how she would have been on her launching day in 1950. I relaunched Saraband in August 2014 in Airlie Beach. She had undergone a major refit – all new spars including new Douglas Fir mast. I reverted the rig back to a Bermuda sloop, new sails, new rudder, all bright work, new coach house, hatches and total refit down below all in Mahogany. Saraband’s career spans 66 years and has taken her through all aspects of sailing. Racing in Melbourne and Victoria (including Melbourne to Devonport races) and cruising up to North Queensland , Hamilton Is Race Week and the odd yacht regatta. In 2014/15 we sailed from the Whitsunday’s to Hobart for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Saraband proved again that this design is very seaworthy. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Bermudian Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1950

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Name: Sea Imp Boat Owner: Stephen Street Designer: AG Willams Builder: AG Willams Description: Sea Imp is a bridge deck cruiser built by AG Willams and Holmes from Halvorsen. and it resembles the A? North American designs from the 1930s LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Carval Type of Boat: Gentlemans cruiser State: Tasmania Built: 1939 Seahog

Name: Seahog Boat Owner: John Kolkert Designer: Unknown Builder: John Kolkert Description: This beautiful Schooner was built in 1945 and had life as a Coastal Trader carrying all types of cargo around Australian waters. LOD feet: 65 Hull Timber: Jarrah & Oregon Type of Boat: Schooner State: Tasmania Built: 1945 Serenity II

Name: Serenity II Boat Owner: Mick & Anne Way Designer: Neil Jenkins Builder: Geoff Cuthbertson Description: Serenity has been in the AWBF previously, but I am not sure when. We have just taken delivery this week and are keen to put her on display as she has been maintained in excellent condition. Serenity was launched in 1982 for Bob Cowles. Bob completed a round Tasmania cruise, Melbourne to Hobart, 3 Peaks and regular harbour racing. Serenity spent a few years interstate with other owners. Started in 1997 Sydney to Hobart but DNF. Last owner returned her to Hobart where we took up ownership. Wont be doing any racing, just regular cruising

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Name: Serica Boat Owner: Charles & Fred Peacock Designer: A.E.Luders Builder: Geoff Cuthbertson Description: Serica is probably the last of the old style classic harbour racing yachts launched in Hobart. Built for Fred Peacock and launched in 1969, the 2018/19 season will be Serica’s 50th consecutive year of racing on the Derwent. In April 2019, Serica will have been owned, sailed and maintained by the Peacock family for 50 years. The lines were drawn by American naval architect A.E. (Bill) Luders for Peter Cole (sailmaker and later yacht designer) to build his yacht, Theme. Fred Peacock purchased the plans from Cole and modified the design to increase accommodation for cruising, incorporate masthead rig and modify the stern to a slightly raked counter stern. Luders was responsible for designing some significant metre boats, including the 12 metre American Eagle and the 5.5metre Barrenjoey in which Bill Northam won a Gold medal for Australia at the 1964 Olympics. Theme and sister-ship Tanami were built side by side in Sydney and launched in 1965. Max Crease built sister-ship Mistral IX (1966) at Battery Point for Hobart ship chandler Guy Rex and Geoff Cuthbertson built Serica (1969) at Montagu Bay. Serica joined the first division fleet which included Frances (8 metre), Weene (One Design), Ninie, Christine of Derwent and Serica’s sister ships, Mistral IX and Theme. Serica remains the only yacht of this fleet still sailing in Hobart. Serica is constructed of strip planked Huon Pine on laminated frames. Construction is unusual in that frames, stem, keel, rudder post, horn timber, floor timbers and deck beams are also all Huon Pine rather than hardwood. The deck is 1/2inch teak on plywood. The cabin top is laminated ply without beams. Fred made most of the fittings for the hull and for the original spars, including numerous patterns for bronze castings. Fastenings are silicon bronze, and resorcinol glue was used throughout. Serica has regularly cruised waters of South East Tasmania, with occasional trips to Port Davey and Tasmania’s East Coast. The Peacock family interest in yachting in southern Tasmania spans five generations and more than 130 years. This interest began in 1882 when W.D.Peacock (Fred’s great-uncle) bought the 19ft dinghy Laura which he raced in the Huon. During the early 1890’s W.D Peacock purchased the 24 foot yacht Clara. Fred’s father (also Fred Peacock) and uncles, Charles and Herbert, sailed the yacht Mistral from 1907 until 1918. Charles Peacock was Commodore of the Domain Sailing Club/Derwent Sailing Squadron from 1907 until 1917 and Herbert Peacock served on the committee of the Royal Hobart Regatta Association for 49 years. Viv Innes built the Ariel (launched 1939), an S & S Weekender, at Cygnet for Fred Peacock Snr. Ariel was raced and cruised by Fred Snr and his sons Fred, David, Bill and Tony for about 40 years. Serica (1969) is now sailed by Fred Peacock’s sons Fred and Charles and family. Serica featured in Issue Number Five 2017 of the RYCT’s Tasmanian Yachtsman publication. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1969

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Serifa

Name: Serifa Boat Owner: Michael MacTavish Designer: Jack Savage Builder: Savage’s Boatyard Description: Serifa was designed as an ocean racer and raced with distinction, coming 6th in 1966 Hobart. One of two of the Beirrhalaee built in ’66. LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Masthead Sloop State: Victoria Built: 1961 Shipright

Name: Shipright Boat Owner: Peter Higgs Designer: Ray Kemp Builder: Kevin Argent Description: Ray Kemp designed 42 ft Motor Launch. Built by Keven Argent to deck level in Devonport Tasmania. The then owner, Ken Levis completed Shipright. LOD feet: 42 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Seagoing motor launch State: Tasmania Built: 1993 Shiralee

Name: Shiralee Boat Owner: Gordon & Anita McGill Designer: William Atkins Ingrid Builder: Bob Gordon (Gordon & Quading Boat Builders) Description: Based on Colin Archer’s famous double ender designed by William Atkin and the lines show a genuine Redningskoite – life boat of the North Sea. ‘As nearly perfect in form as any boat can be’ Shiralee is a good example of a traditional plank on frame construction with copper roves. Built at the boatyard of well known Sydney boat builder Bob Gordon, it is a chance to view the hull construction as the interior fit out has been completely removed. This Ingrid is undergoing a transformation, the previous owners have stripped out the original interior and redesigned the cockpit for easier access to the Fordson marinised engine and gearbox. All wood has been stripped and resealed and numerous new stainless steel fittings have been added. As the new custodians of Shiralee, having relocated her from Raby Bay, Queensland to Hobart, Tasmania in 2017, we are designing a new interior fit out using some beautiful Tasmanian woods….a new adventure unfolding…. LODPage 146 feet: 38 Hull Timber: Oregon & Classic Hardwood Yacht Type Association of Boat: of AustraliaKetch State: Tasmania Built: 1980 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Sixteenth

Name: Sixteenth Boat Owner: Gary Pritchard Designer: Llew Sweatman Builder: Sweatman, Pritchard & Pollard Description: This boat was built by a geochemist, and an electrician (!) under the strict guidance (to the nearest 1/16″) of an outstanding instructor. The wood was sourced locally and after 1 week of taking lines off an existing dinghy from Pete Heading, as well as the lofting, which was done on the shed floor, we began the creative bit. We started with raw timber and had to fashion all parts to size and shape using hand tools for the most part. Some days we were lucky to get above 4 degrees in the shed and were glad when we had to do some hard handwork or were steaming the ribs. The final details and launching were the culmination of many hours of hard but very enjoyable work and it was a pleasure to see her floating gently in the Huon river. We learnt a lot and were glad of the experience. She rows so easily and just seems to pass over the surface of the water. LOD feet: 8 Hull Timber: Huon & King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Clinker pram dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 2013 Soliloque of Searle

Name: Soliloque of Searle Boat Owner: Adam & Sandy Park Designer: Captain William Bailey Builder: R.T Searle Description: Built for Jeffrey Penfold-Hyland of Penfolds wines. Powered by Perkins 4236 80hp diesel. 6 Berth. Teak & Mahogany fit out. 16 tonne displacement. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Jarrah Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1960

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Name: Solquest Boat Owner: Garth Wigston Designer: Robert Perry Builder: Garry Smedley Description: Roy Frith, a Launceston new car dealer, visited yacht designer Robert Perry in USA to discuss possible plans and designs for a motor sailer to cruise in comfort and race in coastal events around the Eastern Seaboard of Australia. The passion to construct a wooden boat commenced in 1979 whilst Roy and a mate were fishing the waters of Lake Pedder and noticed the amount of Huon Pine that was being submerged as the lake was filling. On his visit to USA, Roy was given the opportunity to sail in a fibreglass version of the Perry designed Seamaster 46 that convinced him to commission Perry to design Solquest. Research suggests that this is the only timber version of this design. A Launceston boat builder renowned for construction of timber boats, Garry Smedley, was engaged to commence construction of the boat in an apple shed at Kayena on the Tamar River in 1980. Roy launched Solquest in 1982 and cruised the Eastern Seaboard competing in many events, including a Sydney to Hobart, and winning a prestigious event the Concours de Elegance at Sanctuary Cove. In 2000, after having completed approximately 150,000 nautical miles of cruising, Roy was sidelined with a medical illness and decided to offer Solquest for sale. At this time Solquest was moored in Sydney and was noticed by Hobart businessman Richard Pringle-Jones who quickly negotiated purchase of the vessel and sailed her to Kettering. Garth and Bev Wigston were considering purchase of a yacht and noticed that Solquest was for sale and after investigating many yachts around Australia decided that this was the boat that they had to have. Solquest became their pride and joy in 2004 and has been a resident of the Kettering Marina since that time. During 2005 her hull was stripped to reveal bare strip planked Huon Pine and meticulous preparation began to repaint her hull and keel and to begin an overall annual repaint and antifoul program for her underwater surfaces each year. This was followed by bare timber preparation of Mahogany coach house and cap rail. The mast was removed, stripped and prepared for repainting in 2011 when all rigging and associated components were also replaced, hydraulics overhauled and the majority of electronics upgraded. An addition of a Webasto heating furnace added much pleasure to comfortable winter cruising during the colder Tassie conditions. In 2014 Solquest embarked on an interesting circumnavigation of Tasmania with three chefs aboard to produce the SBS Television program, Gourmet Farmer Afloat. Six one hour programs went to air in early 2015, highlighting coastal Tasmania in a 42 day adventure in absolutely ideal conditions with minimal breezes but flat seas and brilliant sunshine. Despite the intent of a sailing adventure around the State, much motoring provided a fascinating look at our wonderfully colourful coastline that was enjoyed by many viewers worldwide. SBS has since repeat screened this epic adventure many times. LOD feet: 46 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1982

Page 148 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Soren Larsen

Name: Soren Larsen Boat Owner: Sydney Harbour Tallships Designer: Soren Larsen & Sons Builder: Soren Larsen & Sons Description: She gained fame in the BBC television series The Onedin Line of which she was the ‘Charlotte Roads’ for 3 years. She was the ‘Endurance’ in the BBC documentary of Shackleton’s fated voyage, the trial ship for the first 3 sailing years of the Jubilee Sailing Trust UK who now have Lord Nelson and Tenacious using many of the ideas trialed onboard Soren. She sailed to the Southern Ocean as the Flagship of the 1988 re-enactment voyage. She based herself in NZ for 20 plus years sailing the South Pacific Islands each winter. She has sailed back to the UK twice since making her home in the Southern hemisphere. She was the first British Square rigger to round Cape Horn in 68 years in 1991 when we sailed ‘Homeward around the Horn’ with Eye of the Wind and we were accepted into the famed Cape Horners Club. She made her home in Sydney in 2011. She awaits adventurous people to once again want to sail the South Pacific so that she may start to voyage to the Islands once again. We hope to sail to NZ to help celebrate NZ’s two maritime nationalities first the Polynesians and thence the English lead by Captain Cook in 1769. You can enquire about bookings HERE LOD feet: 106 Hull Timber: Oak Type of Boat: Brigantine State: New South Wales Built: 1949

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 149 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Sotalia

Name: Sotalia Boat Owner: Robert & Caroline Larner Designer: Maurice Griffiths Builder: Custom/ T & J Newman Description: Sotalia left Tasmania in 2009, returning in 2016 after East to West circumnavigation. Built in the early 1990s by Terry and Jo Newman in the Yarra Valley in Victoria. They sailed her around Australia with their two children. Sold to John and Dee Deegan. After cruising extensively, Indian, Pacific, S E Asia, sold to us in 2008. Left Tasmania in 2009 for W.A around the top and through the Kimberly W A. Refit in Perth and back through the Kimberly to Darwin for the Darwin to Ambon race/rally.Cruised Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand then across Indian 0cean. Sotalia is built for ocean crossing, never giving us reason to doubt her integrity, which is comforting when one is thousands of miles from anywhere in a raging gale, or a 40 tonne humpback surfaces beneath ,or the tide has gone out and left her stranded on her side. Sotalia has not been in the Australian Wooden Boat Festival since the early 2000’s when the Deegans owned her. She is unique and much admired where ever she goes. LOD feet: 43 Hull Timber: Mahogany & Cedar Type of Boat: Cutter/Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1990 Southern Trader

Name: Southern Trader Boat Owner: Peter Vyner Designer: Alan Payne Builder: Jim Perry Description: Southern Trader was built at Clareville Beach in Pittwater, Sydney by Jim Perry from an Alan Payne design, with the gaff sailing rig by Warwick Hood. Engine is a 1956 Deutz A6L 75 HP continuous industrial 6 cylinder diesel with Lohmann & Stolterfoht hydraulic gearbox. Manly Steamship Company used this engine-gearbox combination very successfully in Sydney Harbour ferries at that time. Under previous ownership the sailing rig was removed and a large saloon with flybridge was built.The present owner since 1980 reduced the saloon and flybridge and reinstalled a sailing rig. The vessel was in survey in the 1980’s and was part-time home, cruising yacht and charter boat. From mid 1990’s has been based mainly at Coffs Harbour and in Tasmania. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Motor Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1958

Page 150 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Spirit

Name: Spirit Boat Owner: Susan St. John Designer: John Gardner Builder: The Apprenticeshop Description: SPIRIT, built by the Apprenticeshop – dedicated to wooden boatbuilding and seamanship – in Rockland, Maine, and launched in 2017, is similar to the over 200 Pilot Gigs currently in use for recreation and racing in the southwest of England. The design was developed gradually over 200 years ago, to create the fastest boat which could bring a pilot to the incoming sail vessels coming across the Atlantic. SPIRIT is one of ten similar pilot gigs within a 15-mile radius here on the coast of Maine, and there are others in the states of Massachusetts and Vermont as well. COME BOATING!, a volunteer rowing organization just up the coast from Rockland, hosts racing regattas to which all are invited. The Apprenticeshop was founded in the early 1970s by Lance Lee. Kurt Hahn, the founder of Outward Bound in Britain, was Lance’s inspiration. Lance was an Outward Bound instructor himself and believed deeply in Hahn’s philosophy that “the aim of education is to impel people into value forming experience.” Here on the rugged, rock-and-fog-bound coast of Maine, my late husband, Bob Rheault, and I taught for over 30 years with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in 30′, four-oared, spritsail ketch open pulling boats. Bob, as a long time member of the Apprenticeshop Board, was deeply involved and committed to its educational philosophy. As I had retired from open-boat voyaging on this rugged coast, it seemed like a fitting tribute to Bob to have SPIRIT built by the Apprenticeshop, and to cox and row her daily here in these home waters. We keep SPIRIT in the water here in Mane from May through to the autumn, but she is also easily launched – weighing about 700 lbs. – by a crew of between 16 to 20. At the Port Townsend, Washington, USA wooden boat festival in September, 2018 SPIRIT greeted festival goers on the hard, and when we wanted to go out for a row, we simply gathered a large group from those at the festival and carried her into the water. SPIRIT takes a team! Come help us launch her, come for a row, come be impelled into value forming experience! LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Cedar Type of Boat: Six-Oared Pilot Gig State: USA Built: 2017

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 151 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Squally Cove

Name: Squally Cove Boat Owner: Tim Phillips Designer: Wooden Boat Shop & Andy Dovell Builder: Wooden Boat Shop Description: Shearwater 38, the latest masterpiece from The Wooden Boat Shop (WBS) is the culmination of lifetimes of experience from Tim Phillips (WBS Director) and the WBS crew. She is named after one of Tim’s preferred fishing spots in the Kent group, Squally Cove. We so often dream of these locations and it’s our boats that take us there, hence this boat we call Squally Cove, beautiful hand chiselled name in the transom. The fishing is the main activity when we go away. Squally Cove is fitted with a pot hauler for the crays and is laid out in a spacious manner and set up for line fishing for sharks and scale fish. This boat has some serious design pedigree, the hull has been designed by Australia’s leading naval architect, Andy Dovell, on a brief that has closely followed WBS’s other vessels such as the Cheviot 32 and Efficient 44. From the keel up, it is clear this boat has been built by experience at sea and fitted out from an understanding of cruising life. A view inside the boat will engage your senses with natural wood and bronze, all hand finished with plush upholstered cushions. The galley is set out with the Wallas diesel oven, cooktop and heater and neatly laid out drawers offer all you require at your fingertips. The galley bench, salon and cockpit table offer practical surfaces for entertaining and relaxing. This level of detail flows throughout the entire vessel. We have carefully designed every element for this particular boat and have thought about all aspects of how this boat will be used, based upon our own experiences and challenges at sea. We have equipped her with every convenience required for day boating and extended cruising, whilst retaining the traditional feel of a real wooden boat. The total package exceeds what is offered by the fiberglass boats available on the market today. The mechanical and electrical fitout on Squally Cove embraces some serious technology that will enhance the capabilities of the vessel. The Yanmar 6LY 440 that achieves 440HP @ 3300rpm is a state of the art common rail engine with electronic controls. The electrical system is built with a whopping 250 amp alternator and a 600 AH lithium house battery bank. The system can rapidly charge from empty to full and delivers any required power demand due to the lithium batteries capability of being cycled all the way down. Lithium battery system at about $3.18 per cycle is about 40% cheaper than comparable AGM or Gell batteries. This was one of the first electronic 6LY 440 to be fitted in Australia, quiet and smooth engine, combined with the Veem propeller this boat will achieve it’s 15 knots cruise speed at 60% load. The large capacity alternator and lithium batteries will allow us to have the luxury of an icemaker, 240 volt usage and refrigeration without being plugged into the marina or living with the constant drone and maintenance of a genset. LOD feet: 38 Hull Timber: Cedar ype of Boat: Motor Launch State: Victoria Built: 2018

Page 152 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Squeak

Name: Squeak Boat Owner: Nelson Brown Designer: Iain Oughtred Builder: Alf Jahnsen Description: Squeak is one of the smallest of the family of Acorn rowing dinghies designed by Iain Oughtred. She was featured in artist John Ford’s original painting for the 2011 AWBF poster. Built by Alf Jahnsen in his 82nd year, she has been rowed, towed and sailed regularly for over 24 years. LOD feet: 7 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Sailing Dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 1995

Startrack

Name: Startrack Boat Owner: Gary Allen Wark Designer: Bob Maclearen Builder: Bob Maclearen Description: This was a working Prawn and Scallop trawler up until 2001. LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Ex Trawler State: New South Wales Built: 1982

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 153 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Storm Bay

Name: Storm Bay Boat Owner: Tim Phillips Designer: Alf Blore & Percy Coverdale Builder: Percy Coverdale Description: Built for fisherman, George Bridge in 1925, the Storm Bay is named after the source of vast schools of Barracouta and the destination of most fishermen when they set off each morning from Victoria Dock. She was gaff rigged with topsail, fishing took place while the boat drifted under a double reefed mainsail. The couta jig or lure was a piece of white Huon Pine about 6″ long, tapered with two big barbless hooks, attached to a linked wire chain, fastened to a 15 foot Sassafras sapling. With no refrigeration, Storm Bay had a wet well made of 4″ thick Huon Pine. Storm Bay, a Tasmanian treasure in pictures. The Bridge family owned Storm Bay from 1925 until 1963, looking after her like a yacht. George’s grandson, Jim Bridge of Lutana, followed in the family business and fished for 14 years aboard Storm Bay during the 1940’s and 50’s. Prior to her restoration she was a crayboat operating out of St. Helens, acquiring a wheel house along the way. She was then bought by Tim Phillips of The Wooden Boat shop who restored her to original condition as a sailing vessel. “I feel quite humble to own a boat as significant as Storm Bay” says Tim “If I eventually sell her I will endeavour to make sure she returns to Tasmanian waters as she is a treasure” In bygone years, the sight of a jackyarded topsail vessel sailing the Derwent would have been a common sight. In 2019, sadly Storm Bay will probably be the only jackyarder at the festival? I hope I am proven wrong! Storm Bay’s restoration criteria was that of her original launching, her rig, wet well, centreplate configuration and layout is that as she was launched, July 25th, 1925. Victoria Dock is where she’s spent most of her working life, our display takes visitors through her history here. Storm Bay’s traditional Huon Pine deck dinghy will be on display, on the vessel’s deck. LOD feet: 54 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Fishing smack State: Victoria Built: 1925 Page 154 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Stormalong

Name: Stormalong Boat Owner: Jon Durham Designer: Charles Lucas Builder: Fred Marks Description: Fred Marks built Stormalong between 1946 and 1948 at Esperance near Dover from plans supplied by Charles Lucas. We are told by Freds family that he milled the timber himself from logs floated to Dover from the West Coast. Freddy used Stormalong along the South West coast as a crayfish and fishing boat. Win and Cylde Clayton purchased Stormalong on 15th September 1954 for the princely sum of 4,400 pounds. Stormalong spent the Clayton years, 1954-1965, largely crayfishing out of Port Davey, however Janet Fenton in her book Win & Clyde describes one of Stormalong’s first tasks was hauling Celery Top Pine logs out of the bush and having them loaded onto the deck for transportation to Melaleuca for milling into useful timbers. During the time of his ownership Clyde fitted two Gardner diesels into Stormalong, firstly a 3LW and then a 74hp 5LW. In recent history Stormalong has been powered by a Nissan diesel, followed by a Yanmar and is currently powered by a Volvo Penta TAMD 60c fitted with a twin disc gearbox. Between 1965 and 2008 Stormalong had a number of owners all of whom used her in the crayfishing industry. Some of these owners were, Weyman Brothers, the Hanson family and Christopher Short. Christopher, with the assistance of Ray Kemp, underwent an extensive refurbishment including raising the bullworks to meet current survey requirements, and an extensive refit of the masts and rigging. Christopher also used Stormalong to ferry Huon Pine collected on the west coast. We also believe Christopher, with his family on board, passaged her to Vanuatu. In 2008 Stormalong was purchased by Bob and Wendy Walters. Bob and Wendy with the help of Kettering shipright Ron Heddle converted Stormalong from a fishing ketch to a ketch rigged motor sailer suitable for comfortable family cruising. These works included removal of the wet well, fitting of a new heavy duty slipper, four new fuel tanks, and an 8kva genset. The current engine was also fitted at this time. Current owner Jon Durham bought Stomalong from Bob and Wendy in October 2013. Since acquisition, Jon has worked to maintain Stormalong in good condition, removing some small pockets of dry rot in the bullworks and refurbishing the original Huon decks during the past year. Stormalong has been recently fitted with a 3.3 meter Fazackerly dingy lovingly restored by Bernard Wilson and his colleagues at the Triabunna Community Shed. Future upgrades will include a complete rewiring of the DC circuitry and the installation of a diesel fired boiler and hydronic heating. LOD feet: 50 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1948

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 155 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Swiftsure II

Name: Swiftsure II Boat Owner: Living Boat Trust Builder: Living Boat Trust Description: Swiftsure II is the flagship of the Living Boat Trust’s fleet which together represents many important aspects of Tasmania’s maritime heritage. She is a traditional Tasmanian bay-whaler which would have been used for harvesting the Southern Right Whale in the Derwent estuary. She provides people with the opportunity to experience what working a vessel of this type would have been like. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Whale Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2004 Sylvena

Name: Sylvena Boat Owner: Jim & Caroline Tayton Designer: L Francis Herreshoff Builder: Holmes Description: Built for Syd Moray in 1956, and based in Sydney Harbour. Then owned by Bill White in Middle Harbour around 1970. Later moved to Lake Macquarie then back to Pittwater. I purchased her in Pittwater in 2006, and sailed her to Kettering, which has been her home port since that time. The hull and cabin are largely original, but she has been fitted with an aluminium mast (probably early 2000’s) and Teak laid decks are a later addition. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Oregon Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1956 Synergy

Name: Synergy Boat Owner: Anne & Ken Allanby Designer: Max Jolley Builder: Max Jolley Description: Synergy was a dream of dads and in the design and building stage for at least 16 years before it was launched. She was built in our front yard. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: 2 layers strip planked State: Tasmania Built: 1987 Page 156 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Takari 2

Name: Takari 2 Boat Owner: David Johnston Designer: RA & CT Norton Builder: Darwan P/L Description: Takari 2 is designed along the lines of Joshua Slocum’s lengendary Spray. She is a superb timber ketch fitted out in Queensland Maple. Master cabin accomodates 3 people in a double and single berth with their own shower and head. The focsle has four berths, shower and head. The galley has excellent refridgeration and freezer capacity ,stove and all other facilities. Thefishermans style wheelhouse has all the modern upto date navigation and communication aids. Takari 2 weighs 26 tonne making her very gentle at sea. The timber deck has only recently been fibreglassed. Only epoxy resin was used, the end result is extremely neat and 100% waterproof. Takari 2 with its large wheelhouse, makes for extremely comfortable day and night and all weather cruising. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Motor Sailer State: South Australia Built: 1982

Talisman

Name: Talisman Boat Owner: Jim Stockton Designer: Iain Oughtred Builder: Jim Stockton Description: Ideal for pottering around estuaries and bays. LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: Hoop Pine Type of Boat: Ness boat State: Victoria Built: 1999

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 157 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Tamar Lass

Name: Tamar Lass Boat Owner: Alan Champion Designer: Van de Stadt Builder: Rod Williams Description: I have had the pleasure of exhibiting Tamar Lass at AWBF since 2005. I have recently moved to Wollongong in NSW, but have kept Tamar Lass in Hobart. As a Tasmanian built boat, showcasing several Tasmanian timbers, she is an excellent example of a very popular design Buccaneer from the 1960’s and 70’s (also called the Primat in some countries). Originally designed to be built from marine ply, the builder has used King Billy Pine and strip planking, making this boat quite unique. The full timber elongated cabin improves the look, and the King Billy keel with lead ballast improves the performance. At previous AWBF’s I have met some of the (now deceased) builder’s family, who were thrilled to see the boat still going strong. I have also met a previous owner, a previous owner of the same design who sailed his around Australia, and a dutch gentleman who did his apprenticeship with Van de Stadt in Holland, and recalled preparing wood packs for the Buccaneer in Van de Stadt’s wood yard when the design was first released. I am having her professionally finished this year so she should look great. I hope she makes the cut this year as I think she makes an interesting and attractive exhibition. LOD feet: 24 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1974

Tamariki

Name: Tamariki Boat Owner: Peter Mortimer Designer: Gary Wheeler Builder: Gary Wheeler & Peter Mortimer Description: Tamariki is a cruising yacht designed and built at Long Bay Auckland by a dreamer and his boat builder/designer friend. LOD feet: 44 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Ketch State: New Zealand Built: 1982

Page 158 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Tappdancer

Name: Tappdancer Boat Owner: John Tapp Designer: John Tapp Builder: John Tapp Description: The boat has approximately 70 watertight compartments & according to tests on the model is self righting, capable of 60 kph on smooth water, extremely stable being flat bottomed & a very fine bow entry. 3246 hours went into building, the timber, except the plywood bulkheads, were milled here in Tasmania. The performance of the boat exceeded my expectations. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Macracapa Type of Boat: Launch State: Tasmania Built: 2017

Tawhiri

Name: Tawhiri Boat Owner: Keith & Maggie Stocks Designer: William & John Atkin Builder: Smith’s Boatyard, Description: Tawhiri was built in Whangarei NZ, from heart Kauri, and launched in 1982. Tawhiri is a “Vixen” design (1950) by American father & son, William & John Atkin. John says that the hull represents the culmination of his father’s development of ocean going yacht design. She is a sturdy and seaworthy vessel with sufficient comfort below to ensure enjoyable passage making (in most conditions). The standing rigging is all galvanized wire with traditional hand splicing, stockholm-tarred servings and leathered eye-splices at the hounds. The mast is 7″diameter solid Kauri, while boom, gaff and bowsprit are Oregon. We have found that the gaff cutter rig is most practical for ocean cruising with its low aspect ratio but ample area of canvas to drive her in all but the lightest conditions (at which time the 30HP Lister comes into its own). The Designers consider this rig is the most practical for wholesome cruising yachts. The original Vixen launched in 1952 was designed for James Stark of Miami, Florida, specifically to make a circumnavigation. He and his wife Jean had a successful trip taking 5 years. Vixen, in the capable hands of Bruce Halabisky, Tiffany Loney and their 2 children has recently completed a second circumnavigation. LOD feet: 34 Hull Timber: NZ Kauri Type of Boat: Double-Ended Gaff Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1982 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 159 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

Ted

Name: Ted Boat Owner: Lewis May Designer: Edward May Builder: Edward & Lewis May Description: Ted was at one stage used as a netting and fishing dinghy in the Frederick Henry and Norfolk Bay areas for many years. It once had sloop rig and centre board which has now been removed to the original rowing boat design. Ted has been an entry in the past three Wooden Boat Festivals and has been used throughout the four days to give festival participants rows around the Sullivan’s Cove area. LOD feet: 10 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Rowing Dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 1963

Page 160 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Tere

Name: Tere Boat Owner: Joanne Naylor & Christopher Brearley Designer: Winthrop Warner Builder: Robert Newton Description: Winthrop Warner was a naval architect, specialising in the design of wooden cruising yachts from the very start of his career in Connecticut. After graduation in 1920 as a Naval architect and marine engineer, he spent time over the next five years at the Electric Boat Company, Portland Boat Works, as a draftsman at the Massachusetts design office of John G. Alden and William Hand, at the New York design offices of Chester Nedwidek and briefly, for Philip Rhodes. This time provided the on the job training necessary for professional perspective. For the duration of his working career, Warner or “Wink” as he was known as, designed over two hundred vessels, the majority of which were built. He offered about a dozen stock designs which later, when he was semi retired, doubled and was promoted by a booklet titled, “Crusing designs from the board of Winthrop Warner”. Louis Valier, Tere’s original owner, had her built by American Marine under the watchful eye of Robert Newton, in Singapore. Valier was a member of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, where he was Navigation Instructor at the Planetarium of the Bishop Museum, know for its teaching of ancient Polynesian non-instrument navigation. Valier gave a series of lectures dealing with movement of the starts which can be used as directional guides during a voyage in a double canoe!! Valier had previously owned a smaller Warner designed ketch and the two men had often corresponded. The interior design was seen as being unconventional at the time and this arrangement of midship cockpit, aft owners double stateroom with enclosed toilet space, deckhouse just forward of the cockpit and forward of that, (under the trunk cabin) another stateroom with it’s own toilet space, was more Valier’s, by his own admission, than Warner’s, though the reports from that time are that it worked out very well. Valier was delighted with Tere’s performance, finding her very easy to handle and powerful enough to comfortably deal with Hawaii’s blustery conditions. After owning Tere for 32 years, she was sold, and two years later, fell into the hands of the previous owners, Peter and Sharon Soden. Within a short period of time, Peter had the interior stripped, and, according to Sharon, with bean bags to sleep on, they and their two children immediately started their cruising life. Over the following 25 years, Tere received an extensive, professional refit and upgrade. Peter has modernised the interior and exterior while maintaining her classic style and original charm maintained though bronze fittings and traditional hatches. Joanne and I have returned yesterday from a terrific 1254nm passage from the Sunshine Coast, where we collected our yacht Tere, to Barnes Bay. We are aware that we are custodions of this remarkable vessel and, armed with numerous amounts of original documentations, drawings and personal letters between Valier and Warner, we will attempt to give her the time and effort that she deserves. LOD feet: 49 Hull Timber: Mahogany Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1962 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 161 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Terra Linna

Name: Terra Linna Boat Owner: Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania, Inc. Designer: Probably George Luckman Builder: George Luckman Description: Terra Linna is believed to be the oldest surviving Tasmanian- built yacht. An extensive reconstruction to c1900 rig was completed in 2012. LOD feet: 27 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Gaff cutter rigged centreboard yacht State: Tasmania Built: 1881 Thalassa 1

Name: Thalassa 1 Boat Owner: Andrew Strachan Designer: Geoff Thyer Builder: Mick Drake Description: Thalassa was originally constructed in 1982 for Geoff Thyer in Triabunna, Tasmania. Built by Mick Drake and crafted with the finest Tasmanian timbers including the large impressive knee made from one piece of Tasmanian hardwood. She then went on to become a working cray fishing boat out of Strahan on the Tasmanian West Coast. In 2012 Thalassa was recovered and reinstated by Andrew Strachan. The year long restoration began and materials from the original build were resurrected and reborn. This restoration work was carried out under the direction of Graeme Freeman (Frizzle) and shipwrights, Jonny Castle and Rick McDonald. Their craftsmanship had Thalassa turned back in to the beautiful vessel and she was given a large relaunch. Today Thalassa continues to sail the Eastern coastline of Australia, New Zealand and the Islands of South Pacific. The amazing original photographs of the original construction highlight the brilliant workmanship using raw materials from Tasmania such as Celery Top Pine, Huon Pine, King Billy Pine and Tasmanian Oak. A complete photographic history of the original construction and then later, the restoration, will be available on a large picture board displayed at the AWBF. Full coloured brochures on the history of Thalassa will also be made available on board at the Wooden Boat Festival. LOD feet: 48 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1982

Page 162 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart The Cygnet

Name: The Cygnet Boat Owner: The Port Cygnet Sailing Club Designer: Ian Oughtred Builder: Club Members Description: The St. Ayles skiff, designed by Australian Ian Oughtred, comes in a kit form that can be constructed and rowed by community groups. Crew 4 rowers & cox. LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Rowing Skiffg State: Tasmania Built: 2016

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 163 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart The Dinghy

Name: The Dinghy Boat Owner: Miller Family Designer: Reg Fazackerley Builder: Bruce Miller Description: The Dinghy is a living example of the passion for & the longstanding community of excellence around boat building in the South East of Tasmania. Still in use as a family fishing boat, The Dinghy was built as a project by Bruce Miller, with the support and guidance of master boat builder, Reg Fazackerley. It is believed that this twelve foot clinker is the only Fazackerley- designed dinghy to be built inside a family home (much to his wife Julie’s dismay). With 2 children still in nappies and two not yet started school, navigating the wood shavings, sawdust, construction frame, array of tools & timber was the sacrifice Bruce and Julie were prepared to make in the pursuit of the dream. The sacrifice paid off as 3 generations have enjoyed The Dinghy’s beautiful lines, stunning timber grains and seaworthiness. Bruce loved Fazackerley’s craft, the beautiful flare in the bow, the lovely curve of Tumblehome in the stern. None too shy, he introduced himself to Reg and, in the spirit of this community (lovers of beautifully designed and crafted boats), the master boat builder took the young engineer under his wing, providing him with a scale half model (“beamy”with a decent draft and high in the stern to sit nicely on the water with an outboard motor) and expert guidance during construction. The Dinghy has a Huon Pine stem (2 inch thick on the inside and 2 inch thick layers on the outside) and ‘grown Knees’ (Sheoaks grown on the right angles) and a ‘grown’ Wattle root breasthook. King Billy Pine was selected for the planks for ease of handling (not as brittle as Huon Pine, easier to bend and will splinter rather than fracture on impact according to Reg). Bruce built his own electric steamer and followed Reg’s instructions: Nothing less than 20 minutes, probably 30-45 minutes. If you keep it going longer the planks will come out like a limp, wet rag. The planks are shaped one at a time each side, locked in place using only handmade wooden clamps, each plank bevelled to sit flat on the transom and the bow stem carved for a neat fit. With Reg’s blessing, Bruce altered the design slightly by using wider planks at the gunwale to take up the curvature. When complete Bruce took it to Sandy Bay for Reg to inspect. After a long, nerve-wracking inspection, Reg gave the jubilant young man the thumbs up. Fitted with a 4 horse Johnson and a pair of cut down racing scull oars, The Dinghy became a much-loved family fishing vessel. Every spring, Bruce would put The Dinghy on the front lawn and hook up the hose with a trickle of water, bungs in, to let it take up. It would be days before it held water, leaking through the gaps in the cold, shrunken planks, then timbers gradually swelling, breathing, coming to life again. So many wonderful memories in this labour of love, a combination of the determination and natural talent of one young man, guided and supported by the expertise and wisdom of a master, in the grand tradition of the passing-on of knowledge & craft. LOD feet: 11 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Fishing dinghy State: Tasmania Built: 1967

Page 164 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart The Sally

Name: The Sally Boat Owner: Tim Stredwick, Lynne Davies & Stuart Graham Designer: unknown Builder: Bob Linacre Description: The Sally has been used now for quite a number of Festivals as a floating musical stage around Kings Pier, Constitution Dock and Sullivans Cove. LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Marine Ply Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1988 The Swan

Name: The Swan Boat Owner: The Port Cygnet Sailing Club Designer: Ian Oughtred Builder: Club Members Description: The St. Ayles Skiff (pronounced Saint Isles) is a 4 oared rowing boat, designed by Iain Oughtred and inspired by the traditional Fair Isle skiff. The boat’s hull and frames are built using clinker plywood and it measures 22′ with a beam of 5′ 8″. It is normally crewed by four sweep rowers with a coxswain. The boat design was commissioned by The Scottish Fisheries Museum in 2009 as a vessel for use in The Scottish Coastal Rowing Project. It is suitable for construction by community groups and amateur boat builders. As of 2017, over 200 boats have been built worldwide, mostly by communities around the Scottish coast but increasingly by groups elsewhere, including England, Northern Ireland, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. [Wikipedia] LOD feet: 22 Hull Timber: Clinker Plywood Type of Boat: Rowing Skiff State: Tasmania Built: 2014

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 165 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Theme

Name: Theme Boat Owner: Brian & Jane Holt Designer: Peter Cole Builder: Balkwell & Minter Description: Theme is a 40ft harbour racer designed and owned initially by Peter Cole (Steak’n Kidney 12m, Cole 43, Bouty 35 and many other designs). It was based on the Luders’s design for Barrenjoey the 5.5m skippered by Bill Northam that won Australia’s first sailing gold medal in the 1964 Olympics in Japan. She was used by Peter to help develop the Contender sailcloth used on the early 12 m yachts and was a very successful harbour racer. There were 4 other boats built to the design, one now in Pittwater and one on Sydney Harbour. Theme has been through several restorations over the years, the latest by her present owners Brian and Jane Holt. Apart from some minor timber degeneration she is still very sound and we look forward to being her “custodians” rather than owners for some time. I am told she was in one Hobart race but retired after nearly sinking off southern Victoria. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: Mahogany Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1968

Theona II

Name: Theona II Boat Owner: Peter Laidlaw Designer: William Atkins Builder: Dennis Cook Description: Theona was extensively restored in 2008 by her owner and has been sailed in the Huon and Channel ever since. She has been used as a safety boat in all the Tawe Nunnagah raids from Recherche Bay to Hobart and has towed many a dinghy and whaleboat back to safety. She is great fun to sail, being fast and responsive and very close to the water. LOD feet: 25 ull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1947

Page 166 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Thistle

Name: Thistle Boat Owner: Megan Stredwick Designer: Dick Thompson Builder: Cecil Cartledge Description: Would I be the youngest skipper/boat owner at the Festival? Probably not though I suspect I would be close, but I bet I’m the youngest with such a special Tasmanian boat. My earliest memories are boating on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and surrounding waters with my parents in kayaks and our dinghy, The Sally. I grew up on the water, adventuring in the spirit of Arthur Ransome. I recently won a scholarship to study for my Master 5 Skippers ticket at Seafood and Maritime Training Tasmania, so my heart is set on continuing my career at sea. Thistle is my first boat, and I am so proud of her and her strong connections to Tasmanian seafaring and would love the opportunity for Thistle and myself to be part of the Festival. I have some old photos and a very brief two paragraph account of Thistle’s 50yr life – at some point she was named Paringa. There are also a few names of previous owners and dates of improvements or restoration. This information is the starting point from which I would like to piece together more of her history. A few of the old photos and the snippets of information I intend to display with the boat might be all that is needed to jog the memory of someone attending the Festival to fill in some of the blanks in her history. I intend to maintain her to the standard her heritage demands but also we have so much to learn from each other on the voyages we will do together. LOD feet: 26 ull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Cutter Rig State: Tasmania Built: 1960

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 167 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Thistle

Name: Thistle Boat Owner: Greg Cash Designer: Cyril Griffiths Builder: Cyril Griffiths Description: The Town of Arthur River has a rich history of pioneer cattle droving, hardy ferry men, and west coast fishing. Featuring in all of that was a hand-made Huon Pine boat; an iconic part of Arthur River for seventy years. “The Thistle” is known to many who visited Arthur River in their youth. Waratah resident Cyril Griffiths came back from the First World War with some boat designs from an American magazine. He was a boat builder, and Waratah was a centre of boat building in the early 1900’s, due to a ready supply of Huon pine. Griffiths built “The Thistle” in the late 1920’s, using the tried and tested design of a North-East American oyster boat. To those who know boats, it was a 16’ hard chined sharpie Chesapeake Bay dead rise oyster skiff, with an inboard diesel motor. Griffiths sold the Thistle to his young relative Eric Bayley. In 1939 Bayley carted the boat on the back of a lorry down the rough road from Waratah to Corinna. There he and wife Freda started one of the first tourist operations on the West Coast of Tasmania, using the Thistle to run fishing tours on the Pieman River. The Thistle became part of the ferry service across the great frontier of the Arthur River. It was tied to the ferry as a backup in case anything went wrong, and it was often used to direct wayward cattle swimming across the river. Eric Bayley died in 1986, but the Thistle stayed at Arthur River. Willie Gale now owned it, and the Thistle became the “town boat”. Everybody knew the Thistle, and most regular visitors had been fishing in it at one time or another. By 1990 the boat was leaking when left out of the water, so during winters it was floated in the old well behind the Arthur River Ranger station. When Willie Gale retired from his job at the Ranger Station, the Thistle was retired to his paddock at Green Point. Geoff Winspear of Port Sorell discovered the Thistle in 2010, and bought it from Willie Gale for $500. Winspear was a relative of the original builder Cyril Griffiths. He bought it unseen, and remembers his heart sinking when he realised the condition it was in. Geoff Winspear spent a lot of time and money restoring the boat, with a complete, see-through fibreglass shell to stop it from leaking. The Thistle was now a totally unique boat, even among its American pedigree. It was the only Huon pine Chesapeake sharpie in the world. The entire 16ft length of the thistle on each side is made from a single giant slab of Huon pine, cut from a living tree. Engine mounts and old exhaust outlets can be seen where a succession of diesel motors were installed in the past. Geoff happened to be talking to Arthur River residents Cagey Kingston and Greg Cash at the M.V. George Robinson cruise boat in 2014, and mentioned he had the Thistle. Greg Cash offered to buy it, which made Geoff happy, because it would be coming back to the river where it belonged. While bringing the boat back from Port Sorell, Cash dropped it in to Wynyard to see Eric Bayley’s nephew Henry Griffiths. Greg Cash happened to own the land which included the old punt track, and he’d just finished opening it up, so a car could be driven down there for the first time in thirty years. Cash also happened to have a new daughter; the only baby at Arthur River. So the Thistle has come home to where it belongs, and a small, but uniquely Tasmanian thread of history continues. Being made of Huon pine, there is every likelihood the Thistle will stay beside the old punt track at Arthur River for another seventy years. LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Power Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1928

Page 168 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Tideways

Name: Tideways Boat Owner: David P Shergold Designer: Philips & Pompei Builder: Wooden Boatshop Description: The vessel was constructed for the current owner. The lines were, with the permission of Pompei, taken from a similar sized Pompei vessel and amended by Tom Phillips of the Wooden Boat Shop to suit the owners requirements. Fabulous sea boat and fine for cruising. Tideways is maintained by the Wooden Boat Shop in Sorrento, Vic. If being commissioned today the changes in the fitout would be minimal. LOD feet: 37 Hull Timber: Makore Type of Boat: Day Cruiser State: Victoria Built: 2007 Tilly Jane

Name: Tilly Jane Boat Owner: Scott Overdorf & Kate Wilson Designer: James Wharram Builder: David Mills & Steve Macgill Description: Tilly Jane was already 25 years old when she was launched for the first time in 2014. The Wharram Tiki 21 is coaster trek catamaran that is the smallest catamaran that has circumnavigated. It is powered by a soft Wingsail Rig. David Mills purchased plans and began the home-build in 1989 in Kingston while a student at UTAS. David had finished construction on both hulls but soon after he married and started a family. The finished hulls remained in his garage for over 20 years. Kate and I purchased them in 2010 and moved them to Kettering. We quickly realised how much work was still left to be completed and so it was time to enlist the help of boat builder Steve Macgill to continue on. Steve’s craftsmanship and attention to detail can be seen in the Oregon timber beams, tillers and mast. He completed Tilly Jane to plan in December 2009 and we launched her in time for the 2015 Wooden Boat Festival (a name had not been decided on at the time so she was entered with the name Illusion Dweller). Tilly Jane, one of two Wharram Tiki 21’s in Tasmania, is now moored in Oyster Cove 8 months of the year and is sailed extensively in the Channel. LOD feet: 21 Hull Timber: Marine Plywood Type of Boat: Catamaran State: Tasmania Built: 2014

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 169 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Tinderbox

Name: Tinderbox Boat Owner: Peat Leith Designer: Will Chamberlain Builder: Ian Johnstone Description: Tinderbox is an 18 foot, modified Swamscott dory, built from a design by Will Chamberlain for hunting on the Great Lakes. She was very strongly built by Ian Johnston from plywood with sealed buoyancy compartments including a double floor. She is among the most sea worth open boats around, and has ventured to Port Davey and all over the East Coast of Tasmania. She has served as Marshaling Vessel for every Wooden Boat Festival since its inauguration in 1994. LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Gunning Dory Type of Boat: Plywood State: Tasmania Built: 1992

Tirrik

Name: Tirrik Boat Owner: Jamie Snodgrass Designer: Iain Oughtred Builder: Jamie Snodgrass Description: Spruce & Oregon spars. Enjoyably built at home over 2 & 1/2 years rather than estimated 6 months. An absolute delight with most everything fabricated by hand. LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: Gaboon & Hoop Pine Plywood Type of Boat: Wooden glued clinker Shetland style beachboat State: New South Wales Built: 2018

Page 170 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Tomboy

Name: Tomboy Boat Owner: Chris Chivers Designer: Chris Craft Builder: Not known Description: Tomboy was owned by my father who sold it in 1970. A boy hood dream was to find it one day and hopefully restore her to her former glory. The dream came true in 2005. Leading up to the 2009 Festival my story was published in the “Story of the month June 2008”, Tomboy Revival. In that story, as I knew it then, I said Arthur Drysdale brought it to Tasmania from NSW put a cabin on it and ran passengers from Wrest Point to Hobart. Recently however, I have found evidence it always had a cabin on the face book page, Speed boats of Sydney and Manly in which there are photos of Tomboy. There is also one of her racing at Deepwater NSW in 1936. After Drysdale sold it, it ended up in Launceston as a chase and coach boat for rowers on the Tamar. The Elliots, (Don is still alive who I have had contact with and has made a model of Tomboy which he displayed at the Festival in 2015) found Tomboy derelict on the mud banks of the Tamar, acquired it and took it Launceston for restoration. Then it had a diagonally planked hull and they had trouble keeping the water out. The bottom was re-planked with 3 inch by 1 inch Huon Pine and is still in very good condition today. The Elliots raced Tomboy at Regattas and MYCT events in Lindisfarne Bay. My father bought the boat from the Elliots in the 1960’s and sold it in 1970 when the family moved to Melbourne for 12 months. Tomboy was located at Cygnet in 2005 and acquired from the current owner. I joined the Classic Australian Power Boat Association and documented the story and the restoration process I undertook taking 5 years. Briefly;- new Celery keel, new Celery transom, Blue Gum engine beds, recycled King Billy window frames made windscreen (boat is now open, as when the cabin was on Dad always drove it standing up with his head out the hatch, it is more social now but the windscreen is done in a way to honour the original lines), new Marine Ply deck with Celery gunwhale. It is powered by a small block Chev V8, in its life it had various V8 engines capable of speeds of 40 miles power plus. Friends in the wooden boat club come from the mainland every two years to enjoy the festival with me with various tours on the river, sail past etc. If accepted this will be Tomboys sixth consecutive festival. I have also taken Tomboy to NSW twice for the Classic Power Boat annual get togethers, a journalist was there who later had an article published using a photo of Tomboy in the Classic Boat Magazine Special Edition of beautiful boats, I have included a photo of the article as evidence of this. LOD feet: 25 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Power boat State: Tasmania Built: 1932

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 171 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Topweight

Name: Topweight Boat Owner: John Tierney Designer: Norm Wright Builder: Robert Tearne Description: Sydney 18-footers have raced on Sydney Harbour for more than 120 years. They evolved from heavy wooden boats with a crew of 15. These boats require a unique set of skills to manage; they carry a ridiculous amount of sail and crew are used as ballast constantly working to keep the boat upright. One stray puff, a rogue wave or miscalculation and it is all over for the afternoon. A fleet of boats have been built up over the last 20 yrs on the designs of their famous predecessors, constructed between 1900 and 1950. Each has been the subject of research through drawings, photographs and prodding the memory of the few remaining who sailed in the original. They are sailed by a group of ex-sciffies with the aim to preserve the history of Sydney’s classic open skiffs. Sailors from around the world travel to Australia to sail on one of these boats. The way they are rigged and sailed is a whole new world for even the seasoned sailors. Sailing on one of these unique craft is like no other. The current fleet sails with somewhere between 6 and 12 people. Imagine that many people in the confined space of an 18-footer and you get some idea of the teamwork involved. You can have it all here at the Squaddy, sailing the historic 18 footers with their coloured designs on the sails for easy identification, handicapped starts so that the first boat over the line wins the race, keeping alive the best traditions of sailing on the Harbour. These handicap starts are also known as Mark Foy Starts as originally devised by the Club’s founder, Mark Foy. Spectators can get an up-close view of the events on the ferry; there is a barbeque and raffles and the emphasis very much on the three F’s, fun, family and friendship. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: Cedar & Ply Type of Boat: 18ft Skiff State: New South Wales Built: 2000

Page 172 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Trevassa

Name: Trevassa Boat Owner: John, Ross & Greg Muir Designer: Jock Muir Builder: Jock Muir & Staff Description: Respected Tasmanian designer, builder & yachtsman, Jock Muir, created many great yachts during a career spanning more than 4 decades. While many of his boats have left Tasmanian shores, Jocks family have bought back one of his finest designs, Trevassa, & returned her to Hobart in 2012 . She was owned by Sydney yachtsman & engineer, Russell Duffield, for 41 years since being launched in 1971. Trevassa was the last major yacht produced by Muirs Boatyard & is built with Huon Pine planking over Tasmanian Hardwood Ribs & a laid Teak deck . In speaking of her design in his autobiography, Maritime Reflections, Jock says “Trevassa was very like 1947 Sydney Hobart winner, Waltzing Matilda, but more drawn out in her lines”. Trevassa competed in 5 Sydney to Hobart races between 1972 & 1990. Trevassa has now undergone an extensive refurbishment by the Muir family. In Hobart since 2012 , she has raced in Channel Regattas & has had a Genoa Furler system installed for ease of handling & can now be cruised by 2 crew. Trevassa hull design with her long keel make for a very easily handled yacht in any wind conditions Wooden boats are like family members & it’s great to see Trevassa back home in Hobart. LOD feet: 48 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1971

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 173 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Trim WB3

Name: Trim WB3 Boat Owner: The Windeward Bound Trust Description: Trim is a 6.0 metre, 8 oared 2 masted dipping lug ketch rigged sailing gig donated by the Late David Boykett and is used for basic sail Training. She was built in Melbourne in 2013 and was intended for use on a large Tall Ship project then getting underway. That project floundered due to the serious ill health and eventual passing of the project’s founder, David Boykett. Before he passed away, David Boykett contacted the Managing Trustee of the Windeward Bound Trust, Captain Sarah Parry and offered to donate the then un-named longboat to our program. As it happened, The Windeward Bound Trust was in the process of developing a small boat program to provide a single day introductory activity for primary school students and junior secondary schools. It has also proved very attractive and successful with older leadership groups and out of school youth groups. Trim has been named by us as a memorial to Windeward Bound’s former world famous ship’s cat, Trim who joined up in 2001 for the forthcoming voyage around Australia in celebration of the Bi-centennial of the same voyage by Lt. Matthew Flinders R.N. Trim paid off in 2016, having sailed more than 100,000 nautical miles with us, and was loved by everyone who knew her. The new Trim is a fitting memorial to her, and she sails as well as she rows and continues to maintain an invaluable place in our growing fleet of small vessels. LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Plywood Type of Boat: Sailing and Rowing Long Boat State: Tasmania Built: 2013 Turua

Name: Turua Boat Owner: Adrian & Mary Herington Designer: Athol Walter Builder: Athol Walter Description: Tutus was raced by Hedley Calvert winning Mewstone and Bruny races in the late 50’s and early 60’s. She was refitted in the 80’s by Ron Crawford when the Teak cabin was added. She is now used for family cruising. LOD feet: 33 Hull Timber: Oregon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1957

Page 174 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Ubique of Hobart

Name: Ubique of Hobart Boat Owner: David & Michelle Shering Designer: Lyle C Hess Builder: Franklin Wooden Boat School Description: Very few boats have the pedigree of Ubique of Hobart both historically and which has spawned a thousand bluewater cruising dreams. Famed yacht designer, Lyle C Hess, originally based the design for Ubique (pronounced U-bee-qway) on the legendary Bristol Pilot Cutter – the epitome of yacht design in the mid 1800s to early 1900s. These boats had to be incredibly quick, yet highly seaworthy to race out to the incoming tall ships that were desperate for an experienced sailor to take the helm and pilot the valuable ship to safety through the notorious Bristol Channel. Each Pilot Cutter raced it’s peers to reach the incoming ship first – where the prize was the piloting job. This started an ‘arms race’ of boat technology that was the precursor to today’s modern yacht racing – making the design incredibly important. In the late 1960s, American yacht designer, Lyle C Hess, used this knowledge to create a series of boats which were incredibly seaworthy, yet had an impressive turn of speed – especially in light winds. Renegade of Newport, based in California was one such boat, and it caught the eye of a young Larry Pardey – who was a ambitious young sailor looking for adventure. Between Lyle and Larry the plans for Serrafyn were born, and Larry successfully built the boat by hand and sailed her with his wife Lin for over 10 years – circumnavigating the world in the process. Looking for something bigger and more capable, the Pardeys once again called on Lyle C Hess for their next boat – Taleisin – which has safely taken them over 200,000 nautical miles. Ubique is a sister ship to Taleisin, being commissioned by Brad Hampton via the famous Shipwrights Point School of Wooden Boat Building at Franklin, here in Tasmania. The name Ubique is linked to the military, with a poem written by Rudyard Kipling sharing the same name. It is believed that Mr. Hampton served in the Australian Army – hence the link. The boat was built in 2002 from a selection of high grade Huon Pine, Celery Top, Blue Gum and Teak, and features several quality boat building techniques not normally found. This was due to the boat being used as a case study of exemplary boat building etiquette as part of the Wooden Boat School’s curriculum. In the late 2000s, the boat left Tasmanian waters bound for Melbourne, where it was berthed for several years, until previous owners Chris Brearley and Jo Naylor rescued the boat and brought her back to the Channel. Ubique was given some TLC by Chris and Jo, bringing her up to the immaculate standard you see today. Ubique formed the basis for their sail charter business ‘Sail Bruny’ which has successfully introduced hundreds of people to the joys of wooden sailing boats. During the time at Sail Bruny, Ubique also managed to star in a hit TV series on Australian TV, along with making the passage to the Great Barrier Reef. In mid 2018, David and Michelle Shering purchased Ubique to begin preparations for their own circumnavigation upon retiring. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Huon & Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Bristol Channel Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 2002 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 175 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Una J

Name: Una J Boat Owner: Dennis Horne Designer: Don & Alec Book Builder: John Davis Description: Featured in 1960’s TV Series ” Riptide” and many people have fond memories of this Crawford Production. Now with her 5th owner taking her to another level of restoration and retrofitting with Bronze hardware. LOD feet: 40 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum Type of Boat: Sloop State: Victoria Built: 1948

Vanity

Name: Vanity Boat Owner: Robert & Elizabeth Virtue Designer: William Hand & Alf Blore Builder: Charles Lucas Description: Vanity was a successful member of the “One Designers”, winning the coveted Dewar Shield on several occasions. In the 1930’s when she was beginning to be outpaced by longer yachts, that problem was solved by cutting off her bow and and extending her by 7 ft. She was once again back up in the leaders until WWII. Post-war she was still a solid performer and just about any Hobart sailor over the age of 50 had crewed on her at some stage. Eventually she was converted to a cruising yacht and made her way (just) to Sydney. Vanity was only half afloat near Sydney when purchased by the Virtue family in 2005. Originally planned as a long-term restoration in their backyard on Coochiemudlo Island, QLD, a realisation that life was too short to not be out on the water saw Vanity sent to Deagon Slipways for an extensive restoration replacing every rib, a new deck and Huon Pine coach house and a new gaff rig. During her restoration in 2006, Rob and Liz visited Hobart to research Vanity’s history and inspect her sister ship Canobie. They fell in love with Hobart and moved down with their three sons in 2008 leaving Vanity behind to be restored. Delayed for several years by assorted family crises, her rebuild was eventually completed and Vanity arrived in Hobart in time for her 100th birthday party and the Wooden Boat Festival in 2011. She once again slices through the waters of the Derwent and the channel in twilight races and wooden boat regattas and the occasional day of just drifting around in the sun. LOD feet: 40 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Gaff Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1911

Page 176 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Veedon Fleece

Name: Veedon Fleece Boat Owner: Gote Vikstrom Designer: Kevin Cassidy Builder: Kevin Cassidy Description: Veedon Fleece was designed and built by Kevin Cassidy in New Zealand. He had previously built smaller cruising boats but built Veedon Fleece for his own use and sailed it to Alaska via Hawaii and return to New Zealand. She has a distinctive appearance which draws admiration wherever she sails, having a clipper bow, raised deck aft, raised bulwarks and a curved transom. The name Veedon Fleece is Irish for The Golden Fleece in the sense of a goal to aim for. The hull planking on Veedon Fleece is three skins of 6mm kauri through fastened with copper nails and glued using the WEST system. The coamings are 38mm solid Kauri and the cabin top three skins of 6mm Klinkii ply, chosen because of its light weight. The decks are 12mm Maple ply over a conventional Kauri deck frame. All panelling in the cabin is Queensland Walnut and the trim in Shedue, an African Walnut and very hard. Two spiral carved posts from the galley to the deckhand are Shedue and were shaped by Kevin Cassidy with a chisel. From her clipper bow to her electronic equipment, Veedon Fleece incorporates a lot of good practical features in her design and those who have sailed her describe her as a comfortable cruiser, well balanced, easy to sail, stable and dry, and a good performer in all conditions. Gote and Rosalind Vikstrom, current owners of Veedon Fleece, purchased her in 2004 and have sailed her to New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines and extensively on the east coast of Australia and Tasmania. LOD feet: 42 Hull Timber: Kauri Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1981

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Venus

Name: Venus Boat Owner: Philip Bragg & Barbara Weetman Designer: Williams, A.G. Builder: unknown Description: This lovely motor launch was built as a racing cruiser and formerly known as “Skye”. She was frequently raced on the River Derwent and legend has it that she was capable of 27 knots of speed. Unfortunately, most records of this boat’s history seem to have been lost in a fire at the Motor Yacht Club. Some old timers from Cygnet remember her and her 2 sister vessels on the Huon River many years ago. Both the latter two vessels now seem to have disappeared. This boat is special as very few wooden racing cruisers of this or any other era still exist. Skye was restored after storm damage at the North West Bay Marina about 23 years ago. She was renovated and restored by Philip Bragg, a former boat builder and building contractor, with a new interior in traditional style with Celery Top Pine boards and re-registered and renamed “Venus” at that time. She is much loved and enjoyed by her current owners and often cruises the River Derwent, D’Entrecasteaux Channel and Huon River. LOD feet: 31 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Motor launch State: Tasmania Built: unknown

Page 178 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Victory

Name: Victory Boat Owner: Marius Fenger Designer: Ernest Olney Digby Builder: Melbourne Harbour Trust Description: Victory is hardly a plaything but a substantial no nonsense commercial vessel with its towing hook mounted between two Samson posts. With a gearbox that weighs more than its single propulsion engine. Everywhere you look are substantial timbers, closely spaced frames that leave you in no doubt as to her working pedigree. Yet what also becomes apparent are fine lines, smooth elliptical curves, attention to detail in design, a classic. A long counter stern whose profile could easily be mistaken for an international 8M. A vertical stem that mimics the Titanic, and strangely enough also the latest racing yachts. A broad hull that slips through the water with little disturbance. A wide deck that allows you to walk around the boat with ease. Vertical pane glass on all sides of the wheelhouse. The new funnel will return to the original design, a tall round vertical style and reminiscent of the steam propulsion era. Victory is a Melbourne tug, although currently berthed at a marina in Hobart. Having been built and designed in Williamstown, the heart of Melbourne maritime. Spending her early years plying the waters of Port Phillip and later years on Western Port Bay based in Hastings. Victory has been a part of so many people’s lives, that she is certainly a living history. Any doubt of this would soon be dispelled, as it was, at the recent Wooden boat festival. Where many of the visitors who came aboard were from Victoria, and had either worked on or sailed on Victory. A request has already been made for Victory to attend the reopening of Seaport at Williamstown. Victory’s designer was Earnest Olney Digby a Williamstown shipwright. Everyone has heard of Fife and Herreshoff, and would acknowledge that fame comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s only fitting that Digby should be acknowledged as one of our famous Australian boat builders. For not only designing and being part of Victory’s construction but for his contribution to so many classics. From the 21ft sailing boats raced on Port Phillip to the international 8 metre yachts Defiance and Frances, both restored champions still racing and winning today. Another of Victory’s many restorations is currently in progress. This version has the basic concept of returning closer to Erne’s original design, without trying to over restore. Victory has always been a working boat, so simplicity is still the guide. Victory and her current restoration can be followed on the Victory website : – LOD feet: 56 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Tug State: Tasmania Built: 1936

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 179 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Vigilant

Name: Vigilant Boat Owner: Tasmania Police Designer: Ray Kemp Builder: Ray Kemp Description: P. V Vigilant, commissioned 1971. continuous service as the Water Police launch performing many rescues, recovery operations most notably during the Tasman bridge crisis where Vigilant was utilised as a dive platform for police and Navy divers. Vigilant was a mothership for operations during the Gordon below Franklin protests and was the control platform for many search and rescue operations. After Tasmania Police took on the fisheries role in the 1985, Vigilant has performed between 8 to 11 multi day fisheries patrols each year ever since, in all Tasmanian state waters. Vigilant is unique in that it the last remaining Police / Fisheries patrol vessel made from Huon Pine and Tasmanian hardwoods that is still in service. LOD feet: 50 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1971 Vinsuette

Name: Vinsuette Boat Owner: Danny Hood Designer: Pompei Builder: Pompei Description: Vinsuette was lovingly built by renowned shipwrights, Joe & Jack Pompei in Mordialloc Victoria. She was built for the brother’s own brother, John Pompei in 1983, where she remained until John’s passing. Vinsuette was commissioned as a line fishing boat and fished out of Mordialloc, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria. In 2015, Vinsuette was sold to her current owne,r who in 2017 brought Vinsuette across Bass Strait to Cygnet, Tasmania where he engaged local shipwright Jeremy Clowes to rebuild Vinsuette into a pleasure/fishing boat. In rebuilding Vinsuette Jeremy has used extensivley many of Tasmania’s wonderful timbers including Huon Pine and King Billy Pine. Both the original planking and ribs of Vinsuette are of Tasmanain Celery Top Pine, her keel is New Zealand Kauri . She is now powered by a Volvo D2 55 marine diesel. Vinsuette will be ready for the water in November 2018 LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Motor Boat State: Tasmania Built: 1983

Page 180 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Vittoria

Name: Vittoria Boat Owner: Alan Reece Designer: Sparkman and Stephens Builder: Quilkey Brothers Description: Vittoria is a Sparkman & Stephens designed Ocean Racer, commissioned by Lou Abrahams in 1970 for minimum IOR rating. The yacht was built by Quilkey Brothers at Taren Point, NSW. Built in timber Cold Moulded construction, cross cut 4 planked American Oregon with final layer of Dynel sheathing. Vittoria was one of the last timber ocean racers built in Australia Vittoria contested 9 consecutive Sydney to Hobart races from 1970 to 1978, best finish was in her maiden race in 1970; 5th outright and 7th on handicap. Vittoria was refurbished in 2010, salon layout was altered and fitting of electric / hydraulic main winches. Vittoria is now moored at RPAYC, Pittwater near Sydney and races in Classic Yacht events and Wednesday afternoon races. Vittoria is a classic S & S design for that time, being smaller than other noted ocean racers, Ragamuffin, Salacia, Love & War. Vittoria today maintains sailing regatta, attending classic boat regattas and shows Events in the past couple of years months RMYC – Classic Yacht Regatta at Pittwater 2016 / 2017 / 2018 Sydney Harbour Australia Day Anniversary Regatta 2015/2016/2017/2018, winning 2017 RPAYC Waterford Series Fleet 3 Winner 2016 RPAYC Spring Wednesday Series Fleet 3 Winner 2016 PRAYC Spring Wednesday Series Fleet 3 Winner 2017 Sail Port Stephens Regatta April 2017 / 2018 Sydney Harbour Gaffers Day Regatta – September 2017 RMYC Timber Boat Festival 2016 / 2017 Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017 LOD feet: 42 Hull Timber: American Oregon Type of Boat: Sloop State: New South Wales Built: 1970

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 181 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Vixen

Name: Vixen Boat Owner: Bruce Crerar Designer: Cecil Cartledge Builder: Cecil Cartledge Description: Vixen is a unique Tamar craft, built for Nolene & Jim Suitor who lived their lives with activity on her. Jim wouldn’t approve of her going to Hobart! LOD feet: 19 Hull Timber: Huon Pine ype of Boat: River Launch State: Tasmania Built: 1962

Wanderer Name: Wanderer Boat Owner: Ross Blair Designer: unknown Builder: Peter Coad Description: Wanderer is based on a life boat design but I have no information on the actual designer. Her construction was started in 1960 but the builder sadly passed away before she was completed. From what I know she languished for sometime uncompleted before Peter Coad bought her and moved her to the Huon area. She was in need of a rebuild and Peter was assisted and advised by local boatbuilder/shipwrights. She was launched in 1970. According to the information I have been given, the Huon Pine she was constructed with was some of the best Peter had encountered. She has passed through a number of owners since Peter and she remains a tight little ship. On my inspection/survey she was found to have dry bilges forward of the engine room. Her mast and boom are solid Oregon. Her rig is more of a steadying sail than a true sailing rig. This is relatively apparent by the very forward location of the mast step and the fact that her mast is 9mtrs tall. Her canoe stern makes her very seaworthy and comfortable in a following sea. Her current power plant is a 54hp Yanmar diesel and I am unsure which engine she was launched with. LOD feet: 36 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Motor-sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1960/1970

Page 182 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Wendy Rose

Name: Wendy Rose Boat Owner: Saul Davidson Designer: Hartley Builder: Charile Description: Hi, my name Is Saul Davidson. I this Bought Hartley TS16 (Wendy Rose) back in 2015, when I was about 12 years old, from a guy on Bruny who had left the boat outside for years. The boat was really rundown with rot all over the port of the cabin and stern. The paint was flaking off the boat majorly with bare bits of timber all over the vessel being shown. I was and still am a very keen sailor, so I took up the challenge to repair Wendy Rose. I had the all the tools given to me by my father and he told me what to do but didn’t once touch the boat, he was only there to help me when I got stuck. Over this time, on weekends and after school, I would cut out rot and put in replacement bits of timber and I fixed the stern with bog. Once all the rot was replaced, I sanded the cabin back to timber and painted it. Then I rolled it on to its side and began to sand off all the antifoul that had been put on, painted it and did the other side. I put bog in almost every edge under the boat to prevent rot. I then started work on the inside of the cabin with the help of some good friends, using heat guns to peel back the paint and put on a fresh coat of paint. Then she was launched and it leaked, so I marked the leaks and replaced the bungs on the boat and put in bog in to the leaks with reinforced fibreglass strip. Then it was done and she floated 3 years later. I was always dreaming of bringing her to the festival as I had volunteered every time to help in the inflatable boats at the festival and on the raid to Hobart as a skipper on the inflatable boats. And I be doing this again this year. She is a lovely boat and I would love to bring her along. LOD feet: 16 Hull Timber: Marine Ply Type of Boat: Trailer Sailer State: Tasmania Built: 1990

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 183 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Westward

Name: Westward Boat Owner: Maritime Museum Tasmania Designer: Jock Muir Builder: Jock Muir Description: Jock Muir originally designed Westward as a fishing cruiser for a Sydney buyer soon after World War II. The sale fell through when the hull was only partly completed and he sold the boat to George Gibson. Westward was launched in 1947 with an overall length of 41 feet 9 inches, a beam of 12 feet and a draft of 6 feet 6 inches. She is heavily constructed of one and one-eight inch Celery Top Pine planking on laminated Blue Gum frames with eight inch centres and has heavy stringers and deck beams. She has a roomy deckhouse which almost covers her self draining cockpit. Muir was sailing master in her Sydney to Hobart race wins in 1947 and 1948. The yachts owner for over 55 years, Mr Stan Field, gifted the historic yacht to the Maritime Museum of Tasmania in 2010. Mr Field had sailed Westward extensively, including a 15 year cruise, mainly in the Pacific, also visiting the Panama Canal. LOD feet: 41 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: Cutter State: Tasmania Built: 1947

Whimbrel

Name: Whimbrel Boat Owner: Andrew Shields Description: Whimbrel was built in 1902 by Fred Moore for William Robertson and launched as Echo. She raced successfully on the Tamar in the1920s. She was sold to persons unknown in Hobart. On the outbreak of war she was renamed Whimbrel and used as a patrol boat. After the war she was used as a fishing boat. In 1952 she was purchased and returned to the Tamar by Charles G Smith. In 1962 she was the first Tasmanian boat home in the Queenscliff to Devonport race. In 1975 she again returned to Hobart. In 1981 she returned to the Tamar. In 2009 she was purchased by Jim Ansell and lovingly restored. We became the new custodians in 2017 of this beautiful vintage yacht. The Whimbrel is in excellent condition and has excellent sea going capabilities. LOD feet: 30 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1902

Page 184 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Why Knot

Name: Why Knot Boat Owner: Peter Watson Designer: Laurent Giles (?) Builder: Barry Wilson Description: The Why Knot, it’s original name, was built in Rosny for a Western Australian owner who then engaged a crew including Richard Taylor, who helped build the boat, to deliver it from Tasmania to Perth via the top end. It was then cruised extensively in Asia and Australian waters, finally being sold and virtually abandoned in Shark Bay, W.A. The next owner, a Perth industrialist, undertook a complete restoration about four years ago but died this year before completion. The present owner acquired the boat in May this year and brought it by road to Sorrento, Victoria where it’s restoration is being completed to the highest traditional standard in time for Hobart 2019. Whilst it’s design is very similar to a Laurent Giles ‘Salar 40’, we are informed by Richard Taylor that it is in fact a ‘stretched’ version of an English, Port Hamble design know as a Horizon 36. LOD feet: 39 Hull Timber: King Billy Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Victoria Built: 1972

Wiena

Name: Wiena Boat Owner: Marcus & Marg Thalmann Designer: L. Francis Herreshoff Builder: Bulls Boatyard Description: Wiena is a classic Ketch Rig H28, a design that L.Francis Herreshoff designed especially for the backyard boat builder to make, this was taken up by our returning troops after coming back from the ravages of war. With a full length keel to make her seaworthy, I believe Wiena has more lead in her keel than others I have seen. She has a larger than average cockpit which enables plenty of room for everyone on board to enjoy chucking a rail. With a very appealing Teak laid deck, she has been proudly exhibited since 2007 by our family. She is a great cruising yacht and enjoys trips up and down the channel from her home port of Snug. LOD feet: 28 Hull Timber: Kauri Pine Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1963

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 185 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Wild Wind

Name: Wild Wind Boat Owner: Neil Smith Designer: Dick Thompson Builder: Frank Bernel Description: Built by owner for commercial fishing purposes LOD feet: 41 Hull Timber: Celery Top Pine Type of Boat: ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1968

Windeward Bound

Name: Windeward Bound Boat Owner: Sarah Parry Designer: Lewis Winde, Mike Seward & Sarah Parry Builder: Sarah Parry Description: The Windeward Bound Trust is a registered charity which provides youth development sail training, and career training opportunities to young people. LOD feet: 78 Hull Timber: Eucalyptus Regnans Type of Boat: Tall Ship State: Tasmania Built: 1996

Page 186 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Windward Star

Name: Windward Star Boat Owner: John & Christine Brown Designer: L.Francis Herreshoff Builder: John & Christine Brown Description: During the period 1931 to 1936 L. Francis Herreshoff, one of USA’s notable yacht designers, produced plans for 4 clipper bow ketch’s; Tioga and Bounty (57ft), Mobjack (45ft) and Ticonderoga (72ft), each sharing similar lines and profiles. Ticonderoga became one of America’s most successful ocean racing yachts through to the 1960’s and is still actively sailing. Windward Star was built to the Mobjack design from plans obtained from Mrs Muriel Vaughan, secretary to Francis Herreshoff, who was able to continue to make his designs available for a period after his death. Built of Australian timbers generally sourced from northern NSW. Construction commenced in Ballina in 1987. After being transported by road to Forster NSW in 1992, she was fitted out and launched in Tuncurry NSW in 1994 with the assistance of Alf and Harvey Jahnsen. She has cruised the Australian east coast from the Whitsundays in the north to and Port Davey, as well as being home to the Brown family for several periods of her life. She has been successfully raced in club events in Brisbane, Gladstone and Hobart. Results have included placing 4th overall and 1st place Racing/Cruising division in the 1999 Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht race. LOD feet: 45 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum & White Beech Type of Boat: Ketch State: Tasmania Built: 1994

Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 187 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Winifred

Name: Winifred Boat Owner: Andrew & Barbara McKillop Designer: Watts & Wright Builder: Crowley Description: The good ship Winifred was launched in 1966 to the design of Watts & Wright, and built at Crowley’s yard by Mrs Crowley, in Bulimba, Brisbane for Alf Taskie. She was originally built to survey for carrying dredge workers to various sites in Moreton Bay. On one of her return trips she was holed by a submerged pile, and beached for repairs. After being rebuilt and receiving a new engine, she was used for charter fishing trips off the Queensland coast. Bill Stuart then purchased Winifred and gave her a major refit, including masts and rigging. Later, she moved to Painesville in Victoria with her next owner Ted Wilson and was used for trips to the Bass Straight Islands. She is now moored in Pittwater, Sydney and her current owners Andrew and Barbara McKillop are continuing with her restoration. She is a classic Australian working vessel now enjoying retirement as a beloved family sailor-cruiser. Winifred is helping with the youth sailors as a changeover boat for years of match racing, we are also involved with helping out with the launch and the running of the Invictus games on the 21th of October this year. LOD feet: 50 Hull Timber: Spotted Gum & Oregon Type of Boat: Ketch State: New South Wales Built: 1966

Page 188 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Wright of Passage

Name: Wright of Passage Boat Owner: Sailors with disABILITIES Designer: Herreshoff Builder: Douglas Baron Description: The donation in January 2018, of this 53ft Herreshoff timber yacht, in need of restoration, the venue by the Oatley Family at Woolwich Dock has provided our charity Sailors with disABILITIES (SWD) the bones of this innovative Wright of Passage Project (WOP). The project enables young people between 16-25 years who may be challenged by their disability, geographic or social disadvantage to join the free program. Participants have had difficulty achieving outcomes in the mainstream education system and these cover a range of issues, including social dislocation, severe dyslexia, ADD, behavioural problems, cerebral palsy & diabetes. WOP is unique youth project for those seeking an alternate pathway to learning in a hands on way, while opening doors for the future. It has operated solely through philanthropy & in kind donations from Norglass, Anagote timber to name a few, with a rolling program of participants. The inclusive program has been designed to provide young people from across the Sydney region with low employment prospects a wide range of skills. Our participants are supported by skilled mentors that can allow progression into various trade apprenticeships & employment in the marine & allied industries, by learning about tools, shipwright, carpentry, electronics, engine mechanics & general boat maintenance. We believe this positive program environment also brings about life changing opportunities for personal growth, resilience, team building & newfound confidence. Three days a week are spent in facilitated on-site learning at Woolwich Dock while restoring the vessel, & one day per week with SWD participating in on water programs being the mentors to children with disabilities. WOP Mercator has been stripped bare her main mast rebuilt due to significant rot, her mizzen mast splined and glued, the hull completely refastened, some sister frames installed, and epoxy sheaved from the water line down. Being impacted by rot has required significant rebuilding of super structure. Engine room rationalization and accommodation modified for Sailors with disABILITIES purpose. The ultimate aim is to sail THEIR Wright of Passage Mercator to Hobart and proudly display their achievements at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Successful outcomes to date (June) from the first intake has already provided 4 young people employment and/or trainee-ships in the industry. The Project can be seen here https://www.facebook.com/7newssydney/videos/2118375768186545/ young people. History of the ketch “ what we know is the owner builder was tuna fisherman in Sidney Vancouver British Columbia SWD is the 4th owner She has done 4 crossings of the Pacific to Hong Kong by original owner then Hong Hong to NZ x 2 , then Thailand to Sydney 2001, 2002″ LOD feet: 53 Hull Timber: Western Red Cedar Type of Boat: Ketch State: New South Wales Built: 1974 Classic Yacht Association of Australia Page 189 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Yendys

Name: Yendys Boat Owner: AHSSA Designer: Charlie hayes Builder: Col Bailey & Ian Perdriau Description: Yendys, is a replica historic 18-footer and was built in 2007 for the AHSSA by Col Bailey and Ian Perdriau and is raced every Saturday during the summer with a crew of 7 to 9 while not an authentic replica Yendys still requires skills and knowledge that was nearly lost and is a joy to all who sail in her. The original Yendys was a snub nosed, wide beam 18foot skiff. Built in 1924 by Charles Hayes for Norm Blackman who raced Yendys very successfully with the Sydney Flying Squadron, with a crew up to 15, until the 1942/3 season. The original Yendys is one of the few surviving examples of the ‘big beamers’, the wide bodied 18- footers, that raced on the harbour before 1933. After that date a new seven-foot beam type began to emerge. The name Yendys is Sydney spelt backwards. Donated to the Sydney Heritage Fleet by Mr J Allen of Rozelle in 1977 and restored by apprentices from Cockatoo Island between 1977 and 1983 under the supervision of Mr George McGoogan and Mr Russel Barton, courtesy of the Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard Ltd. LOD feet: 18 Hull Timber: Cedar Type of Boat: 18 Footer State: New South Wales Built: 2007

Yleena

Name: Yleena Boat Owner: Mckay Family Designer: Ralph E Winslow Builder: Purdon & Featherstone Description: A modified fishing sloop known as a Friendship sloop originated in Friendship, Maine, USA. Built in 1948 by Purdon & Featherstone, Battery Point . LOD feet: 32 Hull Timber: Huon Pine Type of Boat: Sloop State: Tasmania Built: 1948

Page 190 Classic Yacht Association of Australia 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart Yukon

Name: Yukon Boat Owner: David Nash & Ea Lassen Builder: Hjorne & Jakobsen Description: Yukon Tours has been a family owned and operated business for the last 20 years. The story of the family salvaging, rebuilding/restoring and operating the vessel as a charter vessel first in Denmark, and now in Tasmania, after the 16 month sea voyage seems to move and reach a broad audience because of its authenticity and touch of adventure. Yukon was originally named Elly and built in 1930 at Hjarne and Jacobsen’s shipyard in Fredrikshavn, north of Jutland in Denmark. Oak on oak, ketch rigged with a 30 hp auxiliary Tuxham motor. She is a member of the first generation of Danish fishing trawlers that were built with an engine, resulting in a change of fishing technique, so they were nicknamed hajkutter or shark kutters after their effectiveness. The vertical planking around the transom bulwarks could easily be likened to a row of threatening teeth, so the nickname fits. In 1951, she got her current name as a result of a fishing family that struck it lucky in the goldfields of Alaska on the banks of the Yukon River. From 1974 up until 1997, Yukon sailed as a pleasure boat and became well known around the various regattas in Denmark. And the story you hear about us is true! We salvaged Yukon from the bottom of a harbour south of Copenhagen and got her for a case of beer, Carlsberg! 1997-2004, Yukon underwent a major restoration which means basically the ship is brand new from the waterline up. This includes new engine, electrics and systems. 2004-2010 Yukon-Tours operated in the Scandinavian waters. 2010-2011 The voyage from Denmark to Tasmania : Now we are settled in Franklin in the beautiful Huon Valley. We run Calm River Cruises and gourmet lunches. Capacity up to 28 passengers. The Calm Water Cruises is affordable and designed to accommodate all ages. The vessel is easy to access (gangway), spacious enough to walk around, possible to go below deck alone or accompanied by a crew. Our overnight cruises are mostly run in March/ April. Capacity up to 8 passengers. Traditional sailing, nature experiences and good food are the keywords for these cruises, with destinations like Port Davey and Bruny Island on the itinerary. Yukon is also available for charter for up to 8 persons, fully equipped with choice of their own destination. And we are available for functions, celebrations and corporate events and love to be a part of the Festival where we invite people on board for shorter cruises to let them get the feeling of a wooden ship under sail and catch up with sailing mates from all over the globe!

LOD feet: 56 Hull Timber: Oak Type ofClassic Boat: GaffYacht Rigged Association Ketch of AustraliaState: Tasmania Built: 1930 Page 191 2019 Australian Wooden Boat Festival Hobart

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