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| 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
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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. |
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| Cacophonous on display at Fleurtys
Benchmark Exhibition in April 2007 Ned won the peoples choice with Cacophonous. |
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| Ned has
completed a piece for the Fleurtys Benchmarking 2008 called " Time Marches On" Fleurtys at Birches Bay. (photo above) |
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He does not like waste. He loves golf.
Ned did win the 2006 Lord Howe Island golf championship. Sadly not the 2007.
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 strong singing voice, and is equally at home singing ballads, shanties or bush songs.
You can contact Ned at ned_wood@bigpond.com