Saturday 29 August 2020
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats August 29, 2020 at 04:05PM
It's been a cold wet winter in Tassie! Looks like Matt has found a way to keep warm! 😊 https://ift.tt/31Br9R0
Friday 21 August 2020
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats August 21, 2020 at 11:13AM
CWB would like to welcome the Ned Jack of Launceston built Fishing Boat REBECCA to the shed! With thanks to Peter Wallis for the pictures! 😊
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats August 21, 2020 at 11:03AM
UIRA Update No 14. Apologies it's been a little while since we had an update on UIRA. Being away from the shed I'm grateful to Senne and Matt for the taking the time to photograph the work! In 1896 when UIRA was designed and built by Charles & Walter Bailey most boatbuilders still used the time honoured method of first building a half model of the boat and then basically scaling the model up to build the full sized boat. By the late 1800's yacht design was undergoing radical changes and the more progressive boatbuilders understood they needed to embrace the new technologies of designing and drafting on paper to survive. To this end Charles Bailey Sen made sure that his aprenticed sons were schooled in this new art. So it has been 125 years since the Bailey Brothers drew up the plans of UIRA and as part of UIRA'S ongoing restoration we need to recreate the yachts keel, mast and rig and eventually a new sail plan. With this in mind Matt and Jeremy have effectively reversed the Baileys process, using modern lasers they have taken a Table of Offsets from the boat to recreate Baileys plan of UIRA on paper. It will take a while to complete the plans and when it is completed we will publish the results here! In the meantime UIRA'S aft bulkheads and engine beds are now in place.
Thursday 13 August 2020
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats August 13, 2020 at 08:38AM
ROSE has arrived in N.Z. Congratulations to Dave Paynter of Ngatea. New Zealand, on finally taking delivery of the Couta Boat ROSE. After many delays due to a wee pandemic ROSE has made it safely across the Tasman where she has been re-rigged then taken out to her new mooring. We hope that Dave will send us some pictures of ROSE sailing the Hauraki Gulf when the weather and the virus allows! 😊
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Friday 7 August 2020
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats August 07, 2020 at 11:54AM
Build at Battery Point by Able Tucker the 1910 Huon Pine, Fantail Launch, TELITA needs a new owner! TELITA is of special significance to Tasmanian Maritime History! Nicole Mays: "Telita, ex Toine, was built by Albert “Tucker” Abel who established a boatyard at Battery Point in 1897 on an allotment owned by the Risby family. Here, between 1898 and 1937 he built more than 65 vessels, including 18 motor launches—the building of which became his forte. The design and appearance of Telita are characteristic of the type of vessels he built. The motor launch Toine first shows up in 1916 when owned by B. Maycock. He died in late 1924 and the vessel was purchased by Henry Clayton, a founding member of the Motor Yacht Club. Clayton retired in late 1932 and the vessel was sold." More from Peta Clarke: "She was owned for over 30 years by Ernie Clark from late 1950s He bought her from E C Tatnell of Midway Point. She had a Ford Mercury side valve V8 motor then, my uncle changed that for a Meadows 100hp ohv, twin carby, 6 cylinder motor. This motor really was too powerful for the hull and eventually we changed it for a 3 cylinder Perkins diesel which was much more suited and is still in her today." TELITA will be given away to the person or organisation provided they are prepared to preserve or restore her for future generations! For more information please contact the owner Dirk Lorenzen. Phone 0425 277415 or Email. flyingp@bigpond.com Thanks to Peta Clarke and Wooden Boats Tasmania for the painting and pictures of Telita.
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