Sunday 25 October 2020
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats October 25, 2020 at 11:00AM
One man's junk is another man's treasure. 😊
One man's junk is another man's treasure. 😊
One man's junk is another man's treasure. 😊
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Friday 23 October 2020
BEBIE'S ORIGINAL WHEEL BELMONT SKIFF CLUB.
BEBIE'S ORIGINAL WHEEL BELMONT SKIFF CLUB.
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News from Cygnet Wooden Boats October 23, 2020 at 08:41AM
The 36ft Motor Launch BEBIE, built by Battery Point Boatbuilder Chips Gronfors is offered as free to a good owner at the Peter Medling Boat Yard in Paynesville. Details can be found here! https://ift.tt/3jte41W In 1935 Chips Gronfors returned from Fiji to Hobart to work again with Charles Lucas at Battery Point. While in Hobart Chips received a commission from the Sydney business women Amber Merle Gray to build an ocean going racing yacht. Chips Chips returned to Newcastle and set up a boatbuilding yard on the Carrington foreshore. Between 1936 and 1940 Gronfors designed and built the yachts AMBERMERLE, HINEMOA and the Game Fishing Launch’s BROADBILL and AVIS. "The launch currently named BIBIE was launched as AVIS on the 4th April 1936 from the Gronfors Yard at Carrington N.S.W. Built by Ivar Chips Gronfors for Mr. J. Carney of Carrington. From all accounts Carney sold AVIS not long after her Launch to Tom Paddon of Newport. Paddon renamed her EXCEL and used her as a Game Fishing Boat off the New South Wales Coast. After WW2 she was purchased by the Belmont 16ft Skiff Club as served as the start boat for many years until being sold into Paynesville in 2015. Chips Gronfors was a master boatbuilder who designed and built boats in New South Wales and Tasmania from 1910 to 1940. Gronfors was responsible for building the Tasmanian Restricted yachts TASSIE and TASSIE TOO, he also built the Yacht HINEMOA, AMBERMERLE, and the Motor Launch’s MOANI and BROADBILL at his Carrington Yard."
Friday 2 October 2020
News from Cygnet Wooden Boats October 02, 2020 at 08:49AM
A big Thank You for all the help we received in the search for the Restricted 21ft Yacht EDALGO! Apparently it is possible to find a needle in a haystack! 🙂 Unfortunately for EDALGO we were just 3 years to late in seaching for her! EDALGO was broken up by her last owner that purchased her at auction for her motor in 2017! ☹ EDALGO was sold into the Gippsland Lakes and converted to a fishing boat. With thanks to the keen observations of both Leigh Robinson and Len Spooner we found some memories of her last days! From Leigh Robinson: "Lived in the Mitchell River for years. In the early days used by Barry Calloway to fish the 6 mile reef. Fuzz Reed from Eastwood area would know her name. First sight I recognised her as an old 21 and I’m near sure her name was Edalgo the only 21 I’d had a sail in at Williamstown in my apprenticeship days with Ken and Ron Bottica,Noel and Bill Owens " From Len Spooner: "I recall Edalgo at around 1955/6 at geelong. she belonged to Fred Fitzgerald. a very nice boat and well sailed. A year or so back there was a boat on the side of the road down paynesville way and I noticed it had the bow of a 21 footer. it was in a poor state with a rough boxlike cabin and was for sale. I read where it was mentioned on facebook suggested it was the old 21 Footer Edalgo. looked like it had been turned into a fishing boat, very sad to see it." Thanks to both! All is not lost, with the appeal to find EDALGO a couple of lost Restricted 21's have come to light and we can hopefully add them to the Victorian/ Tasmanian fleet some day soon!
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