Ned is a traditional
wooden boat builder, specializing
in dinghy's. He works his magic
in a simple wooden shed at Gordon, Tasmania, over looking the waters of
the
D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Bruny Island.
A man attuned
to the painstaking details that make a wooden boat sing. One of the
first graduates of the Shipwright's Point School of Wooden Boat
Building diploma course.
Ned has
operated his boat building and repair business for eleven years and
has added
nautical furniture and half models to
his
business.
It takes 200-250
hours to make a dinghy, using hand tools that
carry the knowledge of artisans long gone.
Each piece of
timber has its own history - a section of convict cut Huon Pine
carried by
the river into
Macquarie Harbour, Oregon rescued for mast and spars
from a demolished
building from the last century. King Billy recycled from the West
Coast mines near Rosebury.
Ned also likes to turn and carve the pieces of wood. |