Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

Flash as a Rat with a Gold Tooth Damo well done,

No Fear of the unknown Mate, 2nd degree burns on my hands to get the tank off the beeza before the whole bloody lot went up including me.

Hi Ray Being Amals you need the help of a B.S.A Triumph or Norton,Bike lover Amals usually give up there secrets on the side of the road at 3 0'clock in the morning in the pouring rain,you can see by the fire that has started from the float bowl leaking fuel on to the magi as you kick it it over goo...

Good find and read Greg,here is an article on the heads http://www.ardun.com/ardun_histrory.htm

Hi Steve, Dave is right, enjoy the restoration, It is still a good looking boat and will come up a treat cheers

G'day steve,Yes clenching is the bending of the copper nail it is bent over a bit of 5 mill rod and nailed back into the wood,my boat has nearly the same roving pattern but where yours are clenched my boat is roved the same as the rib but they are in the middle of the plank,the little wings (for the...

There are many similiar bits and pieces to my boat the roving looks the same, i rekon the clenching would have been done after the boat was built to try to seal/tighten her up or it could be that perticular builders signiture,i rekon that rubbing strip has been added to the small hull wings at the s...

Hey Greg if you can work out how to transport the monster,maybe a little side line,she would make one hell of a stump puller.

I wonder if insurance coveres something like this? What a weekend to lend your new Vette to the musium not to mention the probable loss of life of employees and visitors. found a news report no one was injured it was closed at the time but when it is open up to 150000 visitors a week lost 8 un repla...

Yea bloody scary stuff,if you watch all those u-tube clips it seems a fairly common thing around the world,there's quite a few over the boarder near Mt Gambier SA, Skin divers go missing in them quite often loose there way and cannot get out full of tunnels and caves 1000s of meters deep,bugger that...