Photos from Sydney Classic and Wooden Boat Festival 2004

[formerlyknownasprince]

OK folks - here's a few teaser photos taken in the rain today.

















These and another 20 or so happysnaps are on imagestation at

Imagestation Album (Sydney Classic and Wooden Boat Festival)

Enjoy - and if you are in Sydney or nearby - get yourself down to Darling Harbour - I spent 7 hours there today - half of it in the rain.

Ian

Edited to lose a year from the title - yep, we are still in 2004 - Ian

[ 03-06-2004, 05:46 AM: Message edited by: igatenby ]

[Bernadette]

thanks Ian!!! We were doing some work on the schooner this morning and was thinking about how it would be sooooo nice to be afloat and at the show!! Thanks for posting the photos! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Meerkat]

3rd pic from the top looks like a Caledonia Yawl! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[On Vacation]

Thanks for taking the time to create these shots and posting them.

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Thanks, thats just what I needed. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hope the comes out.

[imported_Steven Bauer]

Thanks Ian, great pics.

What can you tell us about this boat?



Which Iain Oughtred design?

Steven

[formerlyknownasprince]

Not much. The boat's name is Duyfken or similar (Little Dove in Dutch, IIRC). Another forumite - Lion - was on board talking to the owner when I took this - so I'll leave it to him to expand.

Ian

[Wild Wassa]

Cheers IG, the 18ft skiff looks smart.

The James Craig is interesting. Every Australian marine paint manufacturer claim, that 'their' products are responsible for her welfare. They must get allocated one spar each, or perhaps a hatch cover, [img]smile.gif[/img] .

Warren.

[ 03-06-2004, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Wild Wassa ]

[John B]

thanks Ian.
Wish we had something like that.

[Lion]

Thanks Ian; sorry I got 'lost' about lunch time and missed Chris. Good show but I agree with the comments re the generally poor quality of the market stalls.

'Duyfken' (or Dufken, as in catalogue?)is I recall about 25' and is an early Iain Oughtred design from here in Sydney before he moved to Scotland. Built in the early '80's by the current owner, Jan de Vogel with Iain's assistance and a few shipwrights and friends. Cold moulded resorcinal glue, double diagonal with final fore & aft layer all with King Billy Pine(ex Tasmania).
Powered by a Dolphin 2 stroke with an offset belt drive/reduction to seperate skeg.

Pretty basic below but in suberb condition, tight as a drum and Jan says she sails like a witch. He also said that Iain was always interested in the 'Norwegian' double ended style. Bit like a Tumlaren but beamier and deeper. I don't think plans are available, but she was a pointer to IO's later designs and very forward thinking in construction method. Nice boat!

Lion

[ 03-08-2004, 12:59 AM: Message edited by: Lion ]

[skuthorp]

Thanksfor the pics, interesting to see one of Ian's early boats. (Send us some of that rain mate please!)

[Mike Field]

Thanks Ian. Good stuff.

[High C]

[mic]

Yeh wow, thanks for pic's Ian. On the boat in the 3rd picture from the end was the deck slippery, it just looks to shiny.

[formerlyknownasprince]

Mic

No, not slippery at all. I was wearing totally inappropriate, smooth-soled, quite worn old business shoes (due to a foot injury) and had no problems on board. The boat in question is the James Craig. I'm not sure of the timber now, but think it was White Beech on the deck. Pretty sure it wasn't teak.

Ian

[T Eagle]

Ian,

I travelled down to the boatshow also, and had great fun despite the rain. I wasn't keen on sacrificing my camera to the rain gods so didn't get many photos.

I was particularly taken with a 1905 Cutter named 'Sao'?? Which I believe has been in the same family the entire time.

Do you (or anyone else) know anything else about this yacht?

Also, Thanks for the photos.

te

[formerlyknownasprince]

Re Sao, It is listed in the program as being owned by J & A Dark.

Where was it? Do you recall which row or where in relation to another boat. It wasn't the small one on a trailer was it? I have just had a look at the rest of my photos and there are heaps of other boats, but I couldn't spot the name and I dont recall it.

Ian

[T Eagle]

Ian,

I saw in the program that Sao was owned by J&A Dark at the time. My program got so wet on the day it disintegrated, and I ended up throwing it in the bin.

Re her position. If you were standing on the pontoon alongside Akarana, Sao was directly behind you, one or two pontoons over. She was next to where the stairs came down from the merchant stalls.

TE