ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION
The WBA NSW was formed in 1991 after a very successful wooden boat festival in Sydney organised by John Wood (Member No 1!). The Association is incorporated under the NSW Incorporated Associations Act (registration No Y1364725) and is administered by a committee of 6-10 members (see below) elected at the November AGM each year. Membership hovers around 300, spread throughout NSW (and the world) but concentrated in Sydney.
The aim of the founding members was, and remains, to foster the enjoyment and appreciation of wooden boats and to encourage the continuation of associated skills, vessels and artefacts. The Association has no permanent facility and owns no boating assets; it is a vehicle for people to share their interest be that as an owner, operator, designer, builder, restorer, retailer, historian, artist, toolmaker, timber merchant, book seller or simply someone who just likes to look.
Items of general interest include large boats and tiddlers, square riggers and pulling boats, trawlers and work boats, sailing boats of all configurations, kayaks, lapstrake/clinker, carvel, cold molded, epoxy’d ply or copper roves and nails, bronze fittings, rope work and rigging, paddles and oars, steam driven, petrol engines – Blaxland, Clae, Olds, Simplex and more exotic/ rarer ones, and so on. One member made a storage box for a cannon (see Hal Harpur 2016), complete with intricate rope handles straight out of The Marlinspike Sailor.
Many members have built, are building or are planning to build one or more boats, and these are covered on the “In The Works” page. This section is in itself a work in progress, relying on contributions from members to identify and record the progress of various projects. Even if the build or restoration is finished we’d still like to document it. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to the total number of boats built by members? One member aged 75 is on his 87th boat (or is it age 87 and 75th boat ...).
The aim of the founding members was, and remains, to foster the enjoyment and appreciation of wooden boats and to encourage the continuation of associated skills, vessels and artefacts. The Association has no permanent facility and owns no boating assets; it is a vehicle for people to share their interest be that as an owner, operator, designer, builder, restorer, retailer, historian, artist, toolmaker, timber merchant, book seller or simply someone who just likes to look.
Items of general interest include large boats and tiddlers, square riggers and pulling boats, trawlers and work boats, sailing boats of all configurations, kayaks, lapstrake/clinker, carvel, cold molded, epoxy’d ply or copper roves and nails, bronze fittings, rope work and rigging, paddles and oars, steam driven, petrol engines – Blaxland, Clae, Olds, Simplex and more exotic/ rarer ones, and so on. One member made a storage box for a cannon (see Hal Harpur 2016), complete with intricate rope handles straight out of The Marlinspike Sailor.
Many members have built, are building or are planning to build one or more boats, and these are covered on the “In The Works” page. This section is in itself a work in progress, relying on contributions from members to identify and record the progress of various projects. Even if the build or restoration is finished we’d still like to document it. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to the total number of boats built by members? One member aged 75 is on his 87th boat (or is it age 87 and 75th boat ...).
We meet at 7:30pm on the 2nd Tuesday every month at the
Dundas Sports Club
9 Elder Road Dundas
(From 11 May 2021)
Dundas Sports Club
9 Elder Road Dundas
(From 11 May 2021)
