Wooden Boat Festival: Hunter St precinct
The Hunter St area had two tents, with some smaller things around the edge. The endmost tent, shown here, had the Shipwrights Village (displays of maritime-related crafts) and a display of Indigenous Watercraft. The first tent had the Maritime Marketplace, which was crowded because of the rain and not as interesting as I remember it.
In the Indigenous Watercraft tent, there were two different traditional canoes on display, showing the differences and similarities between the two cultures.
Tasmanian Aboriginal bark canoe, which I think is made by tying bundles of bark together. This one uses a lot of melaleuca (paperbark/tea-tree) bark.
A dugout canoe from the Tiwi Islands. This one was carved from a punkaringa (also a melaleuca), using axes and power tools.
In the Shipwrights Village tent, it was still crowded because of the rain and the light was bad.
This was a demonstration of caulking, by hammering bits of rope between the timbers.
He was making half models, which are mounted on a back board and sold for hundreds of dollars.
You can have the one in the top right for $620, and just $360 for the two below. I'm not that sure I see the attraction in them, really. I mean, they're nice and original to a degree, but they're just a bit plain.
Now that I could like. Maybe not $1800 worth though.
Bit for building a boat, in various timers. The big bit is a stem crook. I can't remember or read what the others are.
