Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

A bit of blue green algae between the planks will tighten her up in no time mate!

Hey Ken, look both ways when crossing the street, be kind to your wife.

What's wrong with the little grey powered beast?,

Hi Darren and members, You could say the water has slowed a little! Between work last week I finally managed to contact the person in charge of the Park. She seems to think that the inflow of water is barely covering the evaporation rate. Well derrr, when you try and fill something that big in the m...

Me too!

fThe one off the red trailer?

Chris, Somewhere in Facebook land on the weekend, I spotted a series of photographs of vintage outboard runabouts made from the fibreglass type trees. They were at the festival and this trailer would have to belong to the red unit. At least one of the boats was a Haydon Hydrodyne, the only wood I co...

I have a pre ww2 Rexman brand lathe, it had done a ton of work before I got it in 1981. Flat belts and slippage became annoying, so the pulleys were removed and machined to take the new fangled(at the time) multi rib belts. Made a real difference but time has got hold of the old machine and it's tim...

Dunno Craig, just grabbed 2x202s and a grey all for $80.00,

I am with you Craig, it would be sad to see the demise of the Forum however it has taken me 3 days to log on. For some reason, about every 6 months or so I get the wrong password message at login. Greg and Alan have both helped me back in recently. I just wonder if past users have experienced the sa...