Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

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  • Tom Jackson
    Senior Member
    • May 1999
    • 563

    #31
    Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

    SMOKY CAPE is a double-ender built in 1973 for marine artist Jack Earl, who co-founded the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race and circumnavigated (not in this boat) in the late 1940s. The boat is 23'9" LOA, cold molded to a design by Len Randell.




    Here's a look at SMOKY CAPE's unusual tiller, which I this is an elegant solution to the yawl steering problem. Rather than a swoopy lamination or complicated gear, the curved metal frame allows the tiller to swing as a normal tiller would. The ends of the frame no doubt provide positive stops to the swing of the tiller, which can be a good thing to prevent oversteering. The feel of the helm would be undistinguishable from regular tiller steering, which I think provides the best "feel" at the helm.



    This yacht is BRITANNIA (not to be confused with the racing 18footer, obviously). Her information is in the next slide following this one.




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    • brucemoffatt
      Senior Member
      • Apr 2012
      • 8495

      #32
      Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

      Tom, if you have any more pics of Smoky Cape I'd love to see them please.
      When I first joined WBF they made me write a book to prove I was a real yachty. I was so gullible.

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      • Tom Jackson
        Senior Member
        • May 1999
        • 563

        #33
        Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

        JANE KERR is a 49', 1981 crayfishing boat, and a fine looking one. She was designed by Ken Lacco and built by Garry Stewart in Victoria to double as a working boat but also with the potential for cruising. These days, she is no longer fishing. Like so many workboats, she has a beauty in her own right, one born of her suitability for her purpose. Boats like these, proven by sea time, influence the design and construction of other boats, far beyond their original purpose. In Tasmania, as in Puget Sound or Maine, the workboats have been looked at by seasoned sailors to inform their own choices. The trollers of the Inside Passage, the lobsterboats of Maine, the crayfish boats of Tasmania—all carry on the tradition of transferring proven types for anyone who spends time at sea for whatever purpose.







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        • Tom Jackson
          Senior Member
          • May 1999
          • 563

          #34
          Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

          Ned Trewartha's traditionally crafted copy of "Mrs. Wilson's Dinghy" is a complex small boat, beautifully crafted, and has a great story behind it.

          The boat is 12'1" LOA, and the original was built by Walter Paisley, who had been an inmate at Point Puer prison for boys. The boat was given to Dinah and John Wilson as a wedding present in 1872. Ned called the boat a "little ship," difficult to build. Like several other boats in the Hobart fleet, such as TERRA LINNA and BRITANNIA, she uses a combination of batten-seam and lapstrake construction. Only the top two planks are lapstrake. The difference is clearly visible here: the varnished area is lapstrake, the painted area batten-seam, seen of course from the inside. In looking at Trewartha's work, it pays best to look at the details.









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          • Tom Jackson
            Senior Member
            • May 1999
            • 563

            #35
            Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

            I'm afraid that's all I've got—there wasn't a good way to move around her.

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            • maxwaterline
              Senior Member
              • Jan 2002
              • 519

              #36
              Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

              Tom, Al G, thanks for the pictures!
              the invisible man........

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              • Phil Y
                Banned
                • Apr 2010
                • 21066

                #37
                Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                Thanks for the photos, and the very informative commentary Tom.

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                • RFNK
                  Port Stephens, Australia
                  • Feb 2007
                  • 26941

                  #38
                  Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                  Fantastic Tom! You've put those of us who've been 'documenting' this event for years, in the shade! Great photos and notation! Thank you!!

                  Rick
                  Rick

                  Lean and nosey like a ferret

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                  • Phil Y
                    Banned
                    • Apr 2010
                    • 21066

                    #39
                    Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                    Storm Bay is an absolute cracker of a boat. Sorry to see Tenacious is still a bit shy about showing much sail. She was quite a disappointment when she visited Adelaide.

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                    • skuthorp
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2002
                      • 73600

                      #40
                      Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                      Really great to see May Queen saved, in tip[ top condition and sailing beautifully

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                      • The Bigfella
                        Banned
                        • Oct 2006
                        • 11600

                        #41
                        Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                        Tom - a minor point, but one worth pointing out to avoid angst from the Tasmanians among us. You mention meeting the person responsible for bringing the James Craig back to Australia for restoration. She'd been sunk in Recherche Bay, which is in Tasmania (which is a treasured part of Australia). She was refloated, brought to Hobart... and then to Sydney, in NSW for restoration. Tasmanians really do get a bit funny when people don't mention that they are a part of Australia

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                        • WX
                          Uki NSW Australia
                          • Feb 2002
                          • 35918

                          #42
                          Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                          Originally posted by The Bigfella
                          Tom - a minor point, but one worth pointing out to avoid angst from the Tasmanians among us. You mention meeting the person responsible for bringing the James Craig back to Australia for restoration. She'd been sunk in Recherche Bay, which is in Tasmania (which is a treasured part of Australia). She was refloated, brought to Hobart... and then to Sydney, in NSW for restoration. Tasmanians really do get a bit funny when people don't mention that they are a part of Australia
                          On the flight down I felt quite miffed that I didn't get a clear view of Bass Strait. I wanted visual confirmation that I was going OS.
                          Without freedom of speech, we wouldn't know who the idiots are.

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                          • The Bigfella
                            Banned
                            • Oct 2006
                            • 11600

                            #43
                            Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                            Originally posted by WX
                            On the flight down I felt quite miffed that I didn't get a clear view of Bass Strait. I wanted visual confirmation that I was going OS.

                            Lay off the champagne a tad

                            Seriously though, my first trip to Tassie was an early morning flight to Hobart on East West Airlines (yeah, I know, I was flying North South....) and I knew one of the hosties. She kept our glasses full the whole way there. We arrived stonkered. Don't recall seeing Bass Strait. . It was off to the Uni to take a professor for lunch, the purpose of the trip btw. Nice wine. Then off to the pub for dinner.

                            My last trip down, in 2010, included dinner at the home of the head of the wine society.

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                            • WX
                              Uki NSW Australia
                              • Feb 2002
                              • 35918

                              #44
                              Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                              Okay here's a few I thought worthy. I have quite a bit of video footage that I will try and do something with as well.

                              The sweetest little diesel. I have video of it running.










                              And for those of you into tool porn
                              Without freedom of speech, we wouldn't know who the idiots are.

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                              • WX
                                Uki NSW Australia
                                • Feb 2002
                                • 35918

                                #45
                                Re: Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017

                                Here's three shots of a nice little double ender.




                                Without freedom of speech, we wouldn't know who the idiots are.

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