The Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania Inc. in conjunction with the Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2007 present...

Marine Art, Clogs, Kippers, Coutas & Ketches

A Forum and Art Exhibition about Maritime Heritage, Marine Art and the restoration of wooden boats in Europe and Australia

Date: Sunday 11/02/2007, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
(Wooden Boat Festival Sunday)

University Tasmania Art School, room CA.145.Dechaineux Lecture Theatre, Hunter St Hobart.

The Forum

The Forum has been planned to provide an insight into local and International Maritime Heritage. From an International perspective it will focus on the work of the Common European Maritime Heritage Congress with a link to the visiting boats from Holland.

Locally it will focus on the Australian and Tasmanian Maritime Heritage including the restoration work on the May Queen. Then it will inform of the use of Couta Boats of Victoria and their work in Bass Straight including the restoration of Storm Bay

The Art Exhibition

The program also includes an exhibition and auction of local Marine Art by Bill Mearns including some of his scale models. There will also be on display a scale model of the yacht Terra Linna by Noel Hall.

Funds raised from the Forum will be used to restore the yacht Terra Linna circa 1880 which is owned by the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania Incorporated. The yacht has recently been included in the Australian National Maritime Museum's Historic Vessels Register.

The painting by Bill Mearns of Rhona H, depicted at right, has been donated to the Guild and all proceeds from the auction of that painting will go towards the Terra Linna restoration fund. More of Bill's paintings can be seen at the Gallery of the Australian Society of Marine Artists.

Program

Master of Ceremonies: Tom Ellis

The Forum commences with the Art Exhibition at 6.30 pm. The Art Auction will be held at approximately 7.40pm. Drinks, sponsored by Pirie Wines, will be available during the exhibition.

7.15.pm Key Note Speaker Thedo Fruithof

Thedo Fruithof is the Secretary Common European Maritime Heritage Congress who will outline European Maritime Heritage including wooden boat restoration projects and the visiting Dutch vessels.

7.40.pm Art Auction

Auctioneer: Hank Petrusma

7.45 pm Bill Foster OAM

Bill Foster was the shipwright engaged to manage the restoration of the May Queen, Australia's oldest vessel still afloat. Bill gained an International award for his work and recently received a Medal of the Order of Australia. He will talk about the project and the final outcome.

8.15 pm Mads Brockhuus

Mads is a keen Danish sailor and a crew member on Havhingsten. Havhingsten is a large wooden boat reconstruction based on the findings from a wreck from the year 1042, where only 25 percent of the wreck was found. The reconstructed vessel will be sailed to Ireland and one of the purposes is to see if parts of the design that wasn't found are working in practice.

8.45 pm Tim Philips

Tim is the proprietor of the "Wooden Boat Shop" in Sorrento Victoria and has been a major contributor to the restoration and maintenance of the Australian "Couta" boat about which Tim will talk. Tim is asking Garry Kerr to join him so Garry can talk about his latest project on the Australian Wheat ketches.

9.15 pm Question time

Forum Registration $25.00 per head $40.00 per couple

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