Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

The differing lengths came up in a conversation I had a while ago as Torea has longer planks on the Port side (left) the brains trust believe it was done to help with keeping speed turning? Just sharing that idea for info, or it could be a Monday or a Friday boat if you know what I mean !!

Quickly Too has been sold pending money and boat changing hands!! I will let the new owner tell you it’s new home/destination on the north Island, cheers

Quickly Too is a 16 ft 6 inch x 7 ft 4 inch DeSilva design hydroplane that is being sold as "turn key" ready to go! It has a strong Rover 3.5 V 8, custom travel cover and solid in very good condition dual wheel trailer. I am after offers around $13,000. If you are serious about this boat p...

Fully restored 1960's winged Lewis with a new Peterson dry sump set up on a 4 bolt main 350 Chev with new dog clutch. The boat is based at Hobart, Tasmania and I will consider offers over $20,000. If you are truly serious about this boat I encourage you to look at "Readers Boats" on this c...

Fits 40 or probably one very fat one!!

Probably not a good way to get top dollar for your boat?

You might have to have Andy’s eagle eye to spot Tomboy but the photo was taken from top of mast of James Craig but a good idea of how lucky we were with the weather and water conditions!

Slightly off topic but the following pics show Jeff Reardon from Classic Boats who has brought down his classic fibreglass Shakespeare for the parade

After 6 festivals in a row (12 years) I’m a bit over it for various reasons and have not entered as a participant, but joined the crowd for the opening parade of sail which again was quite spectacular and the weather improved! Not many boats on the water that fit our demographic but a lady has poste...

Ahoy all! Not the start to the wooden boat festival I was expecting to test the bilge pump on way to ramp!! Hopefully weather will clear, time will tell ? Cheers