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Canoes

Details: Dave Giddings

Bellinger

The team at DRIVE Marine Services (DMS) joined together with The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and Institute of Industrial Arts Technology Education (IIATE) for the first time in 2016 to host the inaugural Novice Canoe Building Challenge at the 2016 Sydney Classic & Wooden Boat Festival (C&WBF). The challenge involved teams of students from Carlingford, Pennant Hills and Turramurra High Schools and Lumen Christi Catholic College constructing a Bellinger Double Chine Canoe in three days at the Sydney C&WBF held at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour from April 15-17, 2016. The supervising teachers also joined in and made their own canoe in between supervising the students which was fairly easy with such a motivated group.

Plywood

Details: Dudley Dix

Plywood

Tortured plywood was originally a description of how Tornado catamarans were built by ‘torturing’ the thin plywood skins into shapes that were previously thought impossible for plywood. It was a very innovative way to build a beautiful round-bilge boat from sheet material. Some argue that there is no such thing as ‘tortured plywood’ because plywood cannot be bent into compound shapes no matter what method is used. That is their theory but science has proven over and over again that theories are there to be broken.

2017 Tasmania Boat Festival

Details: Robert Ayliffe

MyState

The MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival is held every two years and the next one’s coming up from February 10-13, 2017. Hobart’s historic waterfront will come alive with the colour and excitement of our rich maritime culture and history.