More Small Craft Dunnunda

One-design Sailing -- a Family Affair One-design sailing sailing and racing is immensely popular in Tasmania. Numerous local, family-oriented clubs teach, build, and race boats from the diminutive Cadet and Tanner to the 30' Couta class. Some of the clases will be familiar to you; others are seen only in Australia. For beginners
*Boom Box* -- Cadet class sailing pram	Tanner class sloop

For performance *KAEM* -- Moth class scow	*zloty rog* -- NS-14 class sloop
*Armchair Admiral* -- Sabre class sloop	Shearwater class sloop
For the family
Enterprise class sloop	*Karina* -- Jubilee class sloop
The Couta Boat Class Couta boats were originally designed in the late 1800s as fast, seaworthy, fishing boats for the wild waters of the Bass Strait; they range in length from 18-30', but are most commonly 24 or 26'. There are over 100 restored and new Couta boats currently sailing, and several under construction. Victorian Couta boats lined up at Kings Pier Marina.
Community Boatbuilding ...is supported even in small towns in Tasmania. The Living Boat Trust, a community boating and boatbuilding organization in Franklin, has a workshop next to the Wooden Boat Centre.
The Wooden Boat Centre - Tasmania The Wooden Boat Centre - Tasmania (WBC) is about 50 km south of Hobart in Franklin, on the shore of the Huon River. WBC, founded in 1992, is the only diploma-granting school of wooden boat building in the southern hemisphere, presenting an immersive “lofting to launch” course every 18 months. Interspersed with individual projects, each class collectively completes a major restoration and builds a cruising yacht. From beginnings such as these...
Clinker dinghy nearing final finish	Keel and frames of a Cloudy Bay 30
...respected boatbuilder instructors like Adrian Dean (below) guide WBC students in the building of fine yachts such as the one at right, and small craft such as those in the WBC livery.

Larger Boats for Work and Play Australia's history is one of a seagoing nation, from the original settlers, to the whalers and traders of the 19th Century, to the yachts of the 20th Century. Many Australians take great pride in the preservation of this maritime heritage. The 66' trading ketch *May Queen* was built in 1867, and retired from active work in 1973.
Huon Pine (below) is an ideal boatbuilding wood -- tough but easy to work, and extremely resistant to rot. Once plentiful enough to build ships the size of the barque *James Craig* (right), huon pine is now so rare that Forestry Tasmania strictly regulates all logging. Most huon pine today is recovered from flooded forests behind hydroelectric dams.	The 197' barque *James Craig* was built in 1874, and completely restored 1993-2001.
The 55' steam yacht *Preana* was built in 1896. Her total restoration is almost complete.
And finally, the TSCA Connection *West Wind*, the 24' clinker sloop below, is owned and sailed by Rob Wallis, the lone TSCA member in Tasmania.