About: Peter Higgs
Recent Posts by Peter Higgs
Ross Patent Slip
The following is a draft research paper regarding the Ross Patent Slip, it origins and workings in Hobart's Battery Point. This could become a virtual reality production that would enhance the experience of visitors to the Battery Point Slips area. Research article regarding the Ross Patent Slip Napoleon St Battery Point
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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 ft transom-sterned Albatross he designed in 1927. The name Tamima means Albatross in Bruny Island native tongue. Her lines were published in Australian Motor Boat and Yachting during 1929. Tamima was built as a cruiser…
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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 Hobart, Tasmania who specialised in motor launches. Nancy operated as a ferry on the Huon and later the Derwent River for almost 40 years until at least the 1950s, forming a long and close association…
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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 the early 1900's. Currently being restored by Charles Ritchie jnr. in Port Sorell Tasmania. She is 13 tons gross 40.7 X 10.8 X 5.0 ft. (Click on the above image for a full sized drawing.)
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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 Rattenbury. She is 16.5 tons gross, 46.5 X 12.5 X 5.5 ft. (Click on the above image for a full sized drawing.)
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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 on the above image for a full sized drawing.) Full details of her racing and reconstruction history are available from the dedicated website: http://www.friendsoftassietoo.org/
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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 Peter Higgs into using photogrammetry to document historic vessels in Tasmania and Australia. Photogrammetry is a great way to conserve and archive the vessels by creating the lines of the vessel and making a 3D…
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Recent Comments by Peter Higgs
- 24th May 2020 on Repairing the Mast of Terra Linna where it has delaminated.
- 23rd May 2020 on Repairing the Mast of Terra Linna where it has delaminated.
- 11th May 2020 on Little Green Dinghy
- 4th February 2020 on 6th Kettering Wooden Boat Rally Update 1 and Sailing Instructions
- 21st November 2019 on SL August Lady
