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Ziggys Supreme Smallgoods and the Behrakis Family.
Ziggys Supreme Smallgoods and the Behrakis Family are valued sponsors of the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania Inc. by supporting our Welcome B B Q for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival,
Prince of Wales Bay Marina and Big Toy Storage
Prince of Wales Bay Marina sponsor the Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania Inc. by provided a berth for our circa 1880 Yacht Terra Linna. PoW Bay Marina also support the Guild with. Thankyou PoW Bay Marina and Big Toys Storage!
- AWBF space at their Biennial Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart and
- Storage of our Piners Punt's at Big Toy Storage, Derwent Park
For Sale competitive Sabre racing yacht named Trouble.
Contact Henry Dennison on 0455185195 or henrydennisojn0608@gmail.com Trouble A competitive Sabre named Trouble class with a full suit of sails, rigging & ali Trolley $2300.00. [caption id="attachment_25175" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Sabre racing yacht named Trouble[/caption] [caption id="attachment_25176" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Trouble on its aluminium trolley[/caption] The Sabre; see https://www.sabre.org.au/boats/why-a-sabre/ – one of Australia’s most popular single…
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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 documentation, particularly highlighting the required vessel measurements of vessels we had written for use in the project. This identified a number of edits that needed to be made so the draft documentation could be used…
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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 local traffic, south of Tasmania and ordering ships in southern Australian waters to zigzag and darken ship at night. This was introduced as a U Boat was reported in southern ocean waters. U-Boat Commander Timm…
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Can we craft Tassie Too and Terra Linna 1/2 models as a result of Photogrammetry.
Tassie Too models for fund raising purposes. Tassie Too HV 000234 was an early Photogrammetry project that proved very successful. We were later asked if we could produce a 3D model from the Photogrammetry process that would enable the Tassie Too team to sell ½ models as a fund raiser. With some fine tuning this…
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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. [caption id="attachment_24771" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Eighteen Twenty being readied for restoration, Photo Peter Lethbridge.[/caption] Length on the deck 7620 Length on the waterline 7530 Beam 2415 at 4390 from the stem No mast step or deck fixtures (at the time of photogrammetry) The centre board…
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Recent Comments by Peter Higgs
- 12th October 2022 on The Lockdown Piners Punt Model Building Program
- 22nd September 2022 on Cate-Louise
- 22nd September 2022 on Cate-Louise
- 6th April 2022 on Cate-Louise
- 24th May 2020 on Repairing the Mast of Terra Linna where it has delaminated.