The Guild does research as well as our hands-on boat activities
One of basic objects of the Guild is the research, recording and publication of matters to do with wooden boats in Tasmania. In particular:
The research and recording of details associated with the building and use of wooden boats in Tasmania, and to endeavour to ensure that there is a register of boats, and a record of local design details and associated methods, practices and processes, available for posterity.
Our research areas include:
- Tasmanian wooden boats and boat-building history
- Tasmania has a rich history of working with and using wooden boats, using our unique timbers and our very varied coastline and waterways.
- Modern techniques of recording older vessels
- Preserving and restoring fragile older vessels is expensive and requires dedicated craftspeople and institutions. Not all vessels can be saved, let alone restored, and even those that are saved are sometimes lost through accidents or other events. We are now using photogrammetry to capture and present the form and size of heritage vessels for future research and understanding.
These are some of our research projects:
MMAPSS Photogrammetry Project – Iola
Iola ex Aeola ex Iola ex ? (c1930s) Type: Auxiliary gaff-rigged sloop yacht, ex fishing vessel Built: Tamar River, Tasmania,…
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Final Photogrammetry trial vessel-MV Shipright
The Ray Kemp designed MV Shipright was used as a final test in the MMAPSS Project to trial the Photogrammetry…
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MMAPSS Photogrammetry Project – Mayfair
Mayfair (1930) - REVISED Type: Motor launch Built: Strahan, Tasmania, 1930 by Harry Grining. 1487 Tonnage: 4.5 Dimensions: 32.8 oa…
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Nancy
Nancy is a wooden Derwent River ferry built in 1917 by AA 'Tucker' Abel, a well known boat builder in…
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Tassie Too
Tassie Too is a 21 foot restricted class, designed by W.P. (Skipper) Batt and is a multiple Forster Cup winner. (Click…
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Photogrammetry and other high technology used for recording and modelling vessels
The article below, written in 2014, was the stimulus for the foray by Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania Inc. member…
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Casilda
Casilda is ARHV Historic Vessel 000781 is an Auxilary yacht ex fishing yawl built in Dunnalley in 1915 by Walter…
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Eighteen Twenty a historic Victorian 21 footer restricted class racing skiff
Eighteen Twenty a historic Victorian 21 footer restricted class racing skiff. Length on the deck 7620 Length on the waterline…
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Enemy Submarine in Tasmanian waters WW11 leads to MMT’s Model U Boat! – Photogrammetry subject.
Enemy Submarine in Tasmanian waters WW11 After mines were set in Bass Strait in 1944 routing of all shipping, except…
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Tamima
Tamima was designed by W D Bailey of Como NSW in 1929, a 30 ft canoe-sterned enlargement of the 27…
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Can we craft Tassie Too and Terra Linna 1/2 models as a result of Photogrammetry.
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Coralyn
Coralyn is a Naval Pinnace and West Coast Tasmanian supply vessel built in Williamstown Victoria by Charles Ritchie snr. in…
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