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The Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania
Whimbrell Tasmanian Piners Punt TeePooKana, built by Guild members Latura

 

Given that Tasmania is home to one of the world's finest boat building timbers, Huon Pine, it's not surprising that it is also home to some of Australia's finest wooden boats.  The climate helps. As well as being the destination for one of the world's premier off-shore yacht races, Hobart is also host to the Australian Wooden Boat Festival and gateway to the beautiful D'Entrecasteaux Channel (AKA "The Channel") and the Derwent Estuary.  The keepers of wooden boat heritage in Tasmania are the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania.  

The Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania has embarked on a major restoration project for the Yacht Terra Linna c1880. The yacht details are;

Type    Double-ended centreboard cutter yacht.

Built:     Hobart 1880-81 by designer George Luckman.

Tonnage:          8 Thames Measurement.

Dimensions:      28.0 wl x 9.0 x 3.9 ft.

Owners            H.W  Knight & George Luckman; 1884 H.W. Knight sole owner; 1905 W.G.P. Beddome.

The Yacht “Terra Linna” is Huon Pine batten seam carvel planking (9 planks per side) on Blackwood, including a Blackwood keel[i].  The batten seam planking reached above the waterline with two clinker planks (each side) to the sheer line.  She was what was originally known as half decked and carried a centreboard.  Her lines indicate as does other records that she was designed as a variation to the Tasmanian Whale Boat.

Visit the WBGT's own website at http://www.maritimetas.org/taswoodenboatguild/

[ii]

Photo courtesy of the Tasmania State Library

The Guild’s aim is to restore her so she can be sailed again!  Quite a task but we believe achievable.  To date we have received two MAPPS grants from the Australian National Maritime Museum that have funded research to document her history and to build a model of the Terra Linna.

 If anyone can provide information about the yacht it would be gratefully accepted.  Please contact the Guild as indicated below.

[i] Graeme Broxam, “Those That Survive”, Vintage & Veteran Boats of Tasmania, Navarine Publishing ACT1996

[ii] The yacht “Terra Linna” photograph held by the State Reference Library of Tasmania

The Guild meets on the third Monday of every month at the "Mariners Cottage", Napoleon St (in the park by the slips) Battery Point 7004 at 19.30hrs. Members keep in touch through the monthly news letter "The Skeg" and the Guild's Journal "The Rudder" twice annually.

 Contacts

President Ross Barnett  Tel 03 6227 1720

Email

Secretary Peter Higgs Tel 03 6249 1695

Treasurer Brian Marriott Mobile 0419 877 684

Mail: PO Box 28 Battery Point TAS 7004

 

 

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