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Wooden Boat Association NSW

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 ...).

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We meet at 7:30pm on the 2nd Tuesday every month at the 
Gladesville Sporties Bowling and Sports Club. 
181a Ryde Road, Gladesville.

COMMITTEE Since Nov 2017

JONATHAN BELL

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President
0412 177 193
Jon joined the Association after buying The Boatshed At Woronora in 2010 and had to exchange weekend sailing for small boat building. His wooden fleet includes a Whiting Skiff, A David Payne-designed putt-putt with Blaxland Pup engine, a 1920’s waterman’s boat undergoing restoration and a 14ft rowing skiff under construction. He says the coffee machine at The Boatshed Cafe comes in handy for steaming timbers!

NICK​ LAWTHER

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Vice President
​0407 236 999

PETER WIDDERS

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Secretary
0481 583 794
Peter is a retired school principal and has built numerous boats ranging from a 10 metre yacht to kayaks and radio-controlled models. He recently completed an Iain Oughtred designed Whilly Tern (see In The Works).

MALCOLM BOYD​

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Treasurer
0412 797 479
Malcolm has been long associated with wooden sailing boats and until recently has owned a Folkboat. He is now owner of a Ness Yawl and is an active member of the James Craig crew. After all these years he is finally attempting to build a boat – a Feather Pram! As well as looking after the finances, Malcolm is currently editor of the monthly electronic Newsletter​

ROSS​ ANDREWARTHA

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Membership Secretary
​4739 3706
Ross has been in the Association and looking after membership administration since forever.

CHRIS GODDARD

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Editor
​0414 447 007
​editor@wbansw.asn.au
Putting together a quality publication every month, including writing some of the content, is not a task most people could sustain for long but Chris has been editor for several years now as well as being a past president.

ALAN WILLIAMS

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Member
​9958 5435
Alan is an inveterate sketcher and cartoonist, better known to some as Quirky, as well as an experienced boat builder, author and architect. On the judging panel for  the Hal Harpur Award.

SALLY OSTLUND

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Member
0425 330 559
Sally is a volunteer with the Sydney Heritage Fleet, most often working or sailing on the James Craig, having previously spent time at Mystic Seaport in Mystic Connecticut. Her interest in rowing came from learning to row whaleboats there, but she learned the proper sliding seat rowing technique at the St George Rowing club in Como, NSW.   She plans to build her own sliding seat skiff "when the time is right"

KEN TRAVERS

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Member
9529 9955
Ken is our raffles manager, buying things of interest to wooden boat enthusiasts and redistributing them at monthly meetings. Ken currently owns Antares, a 52ft wooden “Gentleman’s Cruiser”. He has been downsizing his collection of numerous smaller boats and all things nautical over the last few years and is still going!

ROSS MCLEAN

Ross is a previous President of the WBA NSW and continues to represent the Association at various festivals and until recently ran the IT side of our monthly meetings. He restored his 14ft cat boat Buccaneer whilst working in the USA and regularly sails in Gaffers Day and other events.
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