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.

Boats, wooden or otherwise

I'm going to break my Wooden Boat Festival photos in three posts. There will probably be some duplication with photos I've already used.

On the water

Hunter St precinct

Off the water

One problem here, is the tall ships present are all ones I've done long photo posts on before. While I have new photos of some, it doesn't seem worth doing a whole new post for each. While I ponder on it, when they get mentioned, I'll link to previous posts (as below).

Before I get to the wooden boats proper, some of the water craft hanging around the edges....



Enterprise, Young Endeavour and cruise ship Asuka II





HMAS Stuart: Anzac Class Guided Missile Frigate

James Craig

James Craig aka Clan McLeod, iron barque, built 1874, and used for general cargo. In the 1920s, she was sent off to end her days as coal hulk in Recherche Bay, although soon after that she was abandoned and beached. There's a photo from that period on the Sydney Heritage Fleet website, along with more information. She was rescued in 1972, restored and then relaunched in 1997, and now lives Sydney. Something of a special ship, because there are very few from that era still in regular work, if carrying passengers rather than cargo.

Interesting that the 'Facts' page gives the original crew as "Master, his wife, 16 crew including 3 apprentices", I wouldn't have thought that 16 was enough.


These photos were taken at the 2005 Wooden Boat Festival in 2005 (obviously an ocean-going ship). These are my first "sailing ship" photos so there's not as many as usual :) and I can't remember many of the details, so most of them don't have captions unless I can tell what they are from the photo. Also, the camera doesn't like dark-hulled ships.



"Fo'c'sle Deck" the sign says.



Galley



Cabin for crew





Quarterdeck









Looking from the quarterdeck.



That looks familiar.


Seem to recall that this deck is a later addition, and this was all part of the hold. Which makes sense, but then the tables below couldn't have been there.





This leads up into the cabin area. See the information panel on the left which gives the layout of the ship, which I didn't bother to get a photo of because I thought I could find it elsewhere?

The next few photos are given in the order taken, to help put them in context because I can't remember any details.



From the top of that ladder, looking back to the deck/hold. If the deck didn't exist, then access to the upper deck would have been via the ladder (photo below), and the companionway (further down).











In the saloon.



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Master's cabin, bed is on the left.



Bath off master's cabin

One And All

Looking over my web page, I realised I haven't done entries to match all my tall ship photos. Shocking, I know!

So, I am catching up now, starting with One And All, a sail training brigantine from South Australia.

These photos were taken at the 2005 Wooden Boat Festival and the reason they weren't posted before is probably because they're not particularly good photos. The lighting was bad, and the One And All was a little overshadowed by James Craig