Mar04
Reports and photos from the first Melbourne Wooden Boat Show
Check Rule 15 – was it sponsored by the department of marine regulation at the University of the Bloody Obvious, or do the organisers have an off-the-wall sense of humour?
Sticker on a beautiful Riva, hand-cut pedal crank made from plywood
The good folks of Melbourne, Australia, have just held their first Wooden Boat Festival, and local Wooden Boat Association member Richard Monfries has put a nice report on his weblog Wooden it be Nice, and this excellent Flickr set of photos.
Another local and regular intheboatshed.net correspondent Dale Appleton also took some photos of the show. From his relatively smaller collection, I particularly liked best is the one at the top of this post about piratical behaviour at the top of this post, closely followed by the sticker on a beautiful Riva speedboat that quietly announces that it has been serviced by a company in Monaco in Europe, which even in our times must seem very exotic and distant to many of the folks of South Australia, and the beautifully made hand-cut plywood crank mechanism. After all that painstaking effort, I wonder how well it works?
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Doryman Mar 5th 2010 at 02:28 am 1
Sinking ships, stealing cargo and pressing crew will not be tolerated!
No homemade brandy, either.
‘Tis a shame.
Gavin Atkin Mar 5th 2010 at 06:55 am 2
And won’t they miss some of the disgusting bits? The parrots defecating on people’s shoulders? Giving people pieces of white paper with a black spot in the middle? And keel-hauling? ‘Tis er disasturr!
jeff cole Mar 8th 2010 at 01:18 pm 3
All cutlasses were confiscated at the door, (and it wasn’t off beat humour, but lawyers rearing their ugly heads) Why we weren’t even allowed to leer at the lasses!
I didn’t go, I tried to sail in to have lunch there one day but ‘security’ decided my craft was too small and probably my wallet and refused to allow me to tie up.
Gavin Atkin Mar 8th 2010 at 05:24 pm 4
That’s outrageous! How’s your Oughtred designed sailing canoe anything but a highly respectable craft?
Gav
Dale Mar 10th 2010 at 09:36 am 5
In simple securitese:
Oughtred = Norse influence= Viking = Rule 15.
What a pity, I’d loved to have seen the canoe.
Jolly Roger (retd) Mar 13th 2010 at 11:52 pm 6
tis a sign of the times (pun intended). Please check your cutlass at the door as it might offend someone at a wooden boat festival. Why bother, the fun police have won, the war is over folks.
I hope its better in the UK…….
Roger
PS Aren’t wooden boats just a slur on progress? I like to think so!!!!