| "Ned
Trewartha
wooden boat builder. His crowd stopping dinghies of lapstrake, copper
riveted, Tasmanian
woods have soul". Matthew.P.Murphy June 2005 Pg 16 Wooden Boat. 184  “Ned Trewartha is one of the rare true artists. His boats have Soul. All good boats seem somehow to be more than the sum of their parts and Ned’s especially have a real quality which sets them apart. They make one think: ‘I want this boat!’ Iain Oughtred March 2011 Link to full article (photo above) Iain Oughtred and Ned looking at details on an Acorn 15' at the 2011 Australian Wooden Boat Festival.  |
| Ned is a traditional
wooden boat builder, specializing
in custom made wooden boats under 20'. We can build to any design using solid timber or plywood. Clinker or caravel construction. 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 fourteen 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. Our aim is keeping traditional boat building skills alive. 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. In the past Ned has built Wee Rob, Guillemot,Acorn 15' and Pike all Iain Oughtred designs. In The Shed Ned also likes to turn and carve the pieces of wood left over from boat building. Ned is also making ukuleles made from Tasmanian timbers such as King Billy, Tas oak and myrtle which have gone all over Australia and overseas to Japan, Scotland and the Yukon. Please contact him us for details on ukuleles. |
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Cacophonous on display at Fleurtys
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Benchmarking 2008 called " Time Marches On" Fleurtys at Birches Bay. (photo above) |
He does not like waste. He loves golf.
Ned won the 2006 Lord Howe Island golf championship. Sadly not the 2007, 2008, or the 2009. He did come third for the 2010.
Ned has a wealth of Australian songs and stories, and has performed them at festivals and concerts for the last twenty years. He also has a large repertoire of American and Irish songs.
He has a fine singing voice, and is equally at home singing ballads, shanties or bush songs. He is now passionate out making and playing the ukulele.
You can contact Ned at ned_wood@bigpond.com