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Vixen is a little over fifty, requires a little love and attention every now and then, but she is a reliable and stable friend to owner Bruce Crerar. You can see Vixen and many other wooden boats at this year's Wooden Boat Rally in Launceston.
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This Thursday’s 176th Australia Day Regatta on Sydney Harbour will showcase of more than a century of Australian yacht design and construction, as well as a near century of development by Sydney’s iconic 18-foot skiffs.
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On Saturday 28 January 2012, the Piers Festival will bring the Port Melbourne piers precinct to life with a spectacular display of music, dance, food, historical displays, the tall ship Enterprize and more. This wonderful display of Melbourne’s diversity will link in with Victoria’s Australia Day activities and highlight the state’s rich history of migration. The Piers Festival will run on Station Pier from 12-4pm and on Princes Pier from 1-9:30pm. The event is free, family friendly and will culminate with a fireworks display.
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The Western Australian-built replica of the first ship recorded as visiting Australian shores will return to WA as a result of a State Government funding package, West Australian Acting Premier Kim Hames announced today.
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After sitting for 25 years at Mount Gambier, the replica Lady Nelson brig will be docked in Warrnambool for a major reconstruction, which could herald the start of a new boat building industry.
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A sailor from Hampshire is to take command of an Olympic boat built from wooden donations.
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Heavy winds and driving rain separated the old salts from the weekend boaties when the 37th annual Tall Ships and Classic Invitation races took place in the Bay of Islands on Saturday.
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A boat builder for the past 25 years, Steve Balcer has become well versed in building newer-style wooden boats and restoring older vessels.
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The classic and highly prized wooden speedboats made by Chris-Craft have long been fitted with potent automobile engines, including small-block Chevy V-8s and Chrysler Hemis. Now, Infiniti has joined with Nashville State Community College and Freeport Boat Outlet of Maine to customize a 1962 Chris-Craft Holiday and equip it with a 400-horsepower 5.6-liter V-8 from an Infiniti QX56 S.U.V. It’s the kind of pairing of classic and contemporary that has always been part of the automotive scene, but has perhaps been more rare in the world of boats.
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Famed boat racer Gar Wood's two-time Harmsworth Trophy-winning race boat, Miss America VIII, will be offered at Mecum's Kissimmee Auction on Jan. 28 in Kissimmee, Fla.
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In preparation for a 15-month circumnavigation of Australia, the Endeavour replica's standing rigging is being completely renewed for the first time since the ship was launched in 1993. Anthony Longhurst, ANMM leading hand shipwright and rigger, reveals the intricacies of traditional rigging techniques - beginning with his visit to the 17th-century ropewalk at England's Chatham Dockyard, to watch the ship's new ropes being manufactured.
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Now entering its seventh year, WBR is a not for profit event which promotes and encourages interest in wooden boats and boating in general.
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The Classic Yacht Associations of Australia and New Zealand team up with the Couta Boat Association members from the Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club for the 5th Annual Cup Regatta, Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, October 28-31
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Are you between 16 and 23 years old? Looking for a challenge?
A voyage aboard Young Endeavour is an awesome experience, and one which will give you skills for life. The Royal Australian Navy crew will teach you how to sail a square-rigged vessel, including how to navigate, keep watch, take the helm, cook in the galley, tie knots, work aloft and even take command.
Not only that, you will develop teamwork, leadership and communication skills, work with disadvantaged youth and meet people from around the country.
The Ballot for voyages in 2012 is now open!
Start here to make your application to sail with Young Endeavour.
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The Tasmanian One Design yacht Vanity, built in Hobart in 1911, has returned to sail on the River Derwent in her centenary year and be one of the major attractions at the MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival.
Vanity, which has been lovingly restored in Queensland by her current owner, now Hobart-based Robert Virtue, is moored in her new berth at the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania in Sandy Bay.
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The J Class yachts VELSHEDA, RANGER and SHAMROCK V will be participating in the J CLASS NEWPORT REGATTA, the first of a series of global J Class events, culminating in the Hundred Guinea Cup race, Cowes 2012.
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Dubai Traditional 43ft Dhow Sailing Championship organised by Dubai International Marine Club (DIMC) had Al Zeer swoop through the finish line next to the Burj Al Arab this afternoon (Friday) to score a win in the second round.
Dahees narrowly beat Al Adeed to take second and third places as the fleet seemingly descended from every direction at the finish line. Shamardel was fourth and the winner of the last round Al Shared took fifth after an amazing hour-long race full of manoeuvre and charm.
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The 126-foot main mast of a schooner often seen in Port Townsend, Victoria and the San Juan Islands snapped while sailing near the San Juans on Saturday.
Two passengers were injured in the afternoon incident aboard the 86-year-old Zodiac, a Coast Guard spokesman said Saturday night.
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Four tall ships – Endeavour, James Craig, Soren Larsen, and Southern Swan – will be a major attraction at the 2010 Classic & Wooden Boat Festival at the Australian National Maritime Museum, Darling Harbour, on the weekend 16-17 October.
And the biennial festival will be more colourful than ever before with 120 notable old vessels on show, a host of family-friendly maritime displays and plenty of kids’ activities.
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