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Cygnet Wooden Boats

Locality: Cygnet, Tasmania

Phone: +61 408 864 556

Address: 30 Lymington Road 7112 Cygnet, TAS, Australia

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25.01.2022 JUST ONE OF UIRA'S AULD MUGS.

25.01.2022 IDA takes to the water! https://www.facebook.com/297170971012287/posts/635996463796401/

24.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/groups/45928256385/permalink/10157222531161386/

22.01.2022 Mr Bailey's IDA out on the water racing again! https://www.facebook.com/210439722730554/posts/969223616852157/

22.01.2022 Huge day today! Designed and built by our Master Shipwright Jeremy Clowes the Couta Boat ROSE is ready to be loaded on a truck and shipped to her new owners in New Zealand! Also big thanks to Matt Morris for the pictures!

22.01.2022 Please Don't feed the Shipwrights.

21.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/297170971012287/posts/672716276791086/

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21.01.2022 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 launchesthe 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 Peter 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. [email protected] Thanks to Peter Clarke and Wooden Boats Tasmania for the painting and pictures of Telita.

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19.01.2022 Thanks Matt! https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/161497735344917/

19.01.2022 It's been a cold wet winter in Tassie! Looks like Matt has found a way to keep warm! https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/188561442638546/

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18.01.2022 UIRA Update No 13. Bulkheads and Fitout. While detailed descriptions of UIRA'S interior exist from Newspapers of the time, few interior photographs exist of these Victorian Era Racing Yachts so in an attempt to recreate the interior as it would have been 124 years ago we can only imagine what it would have been like to descend below into UIRA'S cosy cabin. Framed panels were a prominent feature of the Victorian Era so framed panelled bulk heads it is!

18.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/199121068249250/

17.01.2022 IDA'S return to the water is complete! https://www.sail-world.com//125yr-old-Ida-joins-Aucklands-

17.01.2022 A few more pictures of ROSE courtesy of Jeff Rowe! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2760200487454009&id=100003922554226

17.01.2022 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!

15.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/174877677340256/

15.01.2022 The launch of the Couta Boat MAJEURE (Marg) on the 8th February 2017. Designed by Jeremy Clowes and built by Jeremy Clowes and Odin Tom.

15.01.2022 ROSE is safely loaded on the truck and bound by road and sea to Ngatea, New Zealand. Big thanks to Simon Perigo for the pictures!

13.01.2022 More from Boating New Zealand on Mr Bailey's IDA. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=234862681108979&id=137692512970064

13.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/videos/619124658767518/

12.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/203680817793275/

11.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/172525024242188/

10.01.2022 With thanks to Mark Chews from the Classic Yacht Association of Australia. https://online.flipbuilder.com/qdaw/rrhf/

10.01.2022 Can we get enough of IDA ? https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3557783470901181&id=168073233205572

09.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/103378801156811/posts/190843752410315/

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08.01.2022 One man's junk is another man's treasure.

07.01.2022 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!

07.01.2022 Fantastic video on IDA'S restoration including an interview with her owner John Street and Boatbuilder/Restorer Wayne Olsen! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9WgD79arA&feature=youtu.be

06.01.2022 UIRA update No 12. As the weather here in Tassie begins to cool, Matt and Jeremy are creating the interior fitout for UIRA. Did someone say that curved and raked was the curse of all boat builders? Well and upright backrest in the saloon would just not be good enough for UIRA so curved and raked it needed to be! There were a few expletives and curses uttered during the building! ... Now the saloon seats are in, yesterday was a huge milestone with the first of her bulkhead ready to be fitted. See more

06.01.2022 If you haven't had enough of ROSE'S departure from Cygnet? Senne managed to catch some great photos of the removal of the lead ballast and also the lift! And you can see, Matt's super dog Obe is rapidly adapting to his Boatbuilder life.

06.01.2022 The talented Dave Golding! https://www.facebook.com/246101038749853/posts/3625213827505207/

06.01.2022 IN THE CORNER OF THE SHED. Sits the M. GREY. ( ex HALCYON). James and Simone's Huon Pine 1970's Motor Launch is in the shed for a complete hull up restoration. HALCYON was Designed by Max Creese and built by Geoff Cuthbertson.... The boats Huon Pine strip plank constructed hull is in perfect condition but the wheel house and decks were beyond repair. With the old decks and wheelhouse removed a new and slightly retro Gentleman's Motor Launch is slowly emerging from the dower old lady that arrived at the shed just under 12 month ago! See more

05.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/297170971012287/posts/687302078665839/

04.01.2022 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://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2105869326212949&id=661771277289435... In 1935 Chips Gronfors returned from Fiji to Hobart and worked 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 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."

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03.01.2022 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." Also this from Craig Barnes: "Hey guys, I've been doing some research on this boat and found the previous owner's. They have fond memories of her.. "a tree fell on her down the river," ... In time, the boat ended up having to go to auction, and was sold, the previous owners finding out later to their heartbreak, that she had been cut up with a chainsaw to salvage her engine. Very sad... thanks Peter Meddling, Nonie, Robby, Rob and Karen." Thanks to All! 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!

03.01.2022 SEARCHING FOR THE RESTRICTED 21 FOOTER, EDALGO. Asking a wee favour from all our Facebook friends! As part of the research for a book on the Australian Restricted 21ft WLL Racing Yachts, the author's of the book would like to know if the Restricted 21 footer EDALGO is still in existence? EDALGO was last reported to be extent and moored in Pitwater Sydney Aus by the grandson of her builder John Savage in 2010. EDALGO won the 1951 Forster Cup for Victoria (The Australian Yacht... Championship of the time) beating the then unbeatable TASSIE TOO of Tasmania. EDALGO is 25ft LOA 21ft WLL, and built of New Zealand Kauri. She would originally had an open cockpit similar to TASSIE TOO. I've added a few pictures of TASSIE TOO as and example of a Restricted 21 footer. While the author appreciate that this is like finding the proverbial, needle in a haystack let's hope the power of social media can help find her? More on the Restricted 21's Here! https://www.facebook.com/276565712819286/posts/962549507554233/

02.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/297170971012287/posts/687301108665936/

02.01.2022 It's Jeremy's Birthday and the boys baked a cake with some very special Boatbuilder Candles! Happy Birthday Jeremy!

01.01.2022 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 they are completed we will publish the results here! In the meantime UIRA'S aft bulkheads and engine beds are now in place. See more