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.
	Photograph courtesy of the State Reference Library of Tasmania. Click for full-sized image.

The Yacht "Terra Linna" is Huon Pine batten seam carvel planking (9 planks per side) on Blackwood, including a Blackwood keel. 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 centerboard. Her lines indicate as does other records that she was designed as a variation to the Tasmanian Whale Boat.

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 MMAPSS 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.

Terra linna History (PDF)

ANMM Project Report (PDF)

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