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There are three areas with watercraft, plus a fourth part outside the boundary of the festival proper.

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Windeward Bound is based in Hobart, a modern brigantine built in the 1990s, from 19th C plans (from memory, their website isn't being very helpful).

Not a lot of photos this time.

These first two are from a couple of days ago, at Taste of Tasmania/Summer Festival.



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Polly Woodside aka Rona
Iron barque, built 1885 in Belfast.
647 tons, 192 feet long, max speed 14 knots.





A trading ship, coal mostly, from the end of the era of sail, although she remained in use to the 1920s, when she was converted to a coal hulk.

Original Photos

Under sail

Under sail, from a different angle

"Three masted barque about to be broken up on the rocks."

"On Her Way To The Seclusion Of Hulkland"

Before restoration

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Looking over my web page, I realised I haven't done LJ entries to match all my tall ship photos. Shocking, I know!

So, I am catching up now, starting with One And All, a sail training brigantine from South Australia.

These photos were taken at the 2005 Wooden Boat Festival and the reason they weren't posted before is probably because they're not particularly good photos. The lighting was bad, and the One And All was a little overshadowed by James Craig



( That will really encourage people to look at the photos :) )

One set of photos I forgot to post from the Wooden Boat Festival. (By 'forgot' I mean I didn't get a good photo of the whole ship on the day, so I had to look through old ones to find one and I hadn't got around to it, and I also wanted to incorporate some of the information from the brochure, but I have no idea where it is and the website it helpfully uninformative, so you can make up your own words.)


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Friday was interesting, weatherwise.

The first sail was at 12.30 pm, a small school group. It was warm (having looked at the weather observations, I'll change that to hot. It got up to 30oC, unusual for late March) and there was very little wind. At first the river was smooth, no movement at all, although that changed a bit later on. As usual, we motored up under the bridge, turned around, made sail and came back down the river under sail. Some of the kids didn't think we were moving. It was hard to sure. We were moving, at 1.5 knots (2.8 kph or 1.7 mph). As a guide, the average walking speed is about 3-4 mph or 5-6 kph.

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I put together the information from each trip report into one long post.

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This is Enterprize, a replica of the topsail schooner that took the first settlers to Melbourne in 1835.


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I'll start with the most complicated ship.



Duyfken is a replica of a small ship sent by the Dutch East India Company to explore beyond the known. In 1606 they charted the Cape York Peninsula (the big, pointy bit in the top, right corner) on the first recorded voyage by Europeans to the Great South Land. So she's a bit different to the usual 19th and 20th century ships, replica & original.
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Woke up (relatively) late. Got too hot during the night and the stupid sleeping bag kept moving out from under me. Found out later that some of the others had slept on deck. That would have been cooler.

Probably also explains why there were footsteps above me quite late into the night.
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I must have slept for a couple of hours. When I went back up on deck, it was bit different.
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Woke early the next morning, and rolled out of bed (literally). Didn't want to hit my head again. Hadn't slept too well though, with my bags on the bunk, there wasn't enough room to move my legs around. When I did sleep though, I slept well.

Quick dress and then up the ladder, to discover something I noted a few times. When you're below deck, it's difficult to know what's happening above. So I ducked back down and come up again with my coat on.


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At 6.30 pm, I arrived at Elizabeth Pier. We had to be there by 6.30, to prepare for departure at 7. I'd been up in the library killing time by reading books about writing that I wouldn't have wanted to pay for, so I came down a bit early.

The crew were already there, getting the ship ready. We'll differentiate here between the 8 men/women of the "crew", being the members of the Sail Training Assoc and the 10 trainee crew/passengers/visitors.

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Lovely is having a long, warm shower and washing your hair after two days at sea.

I guess a trip report if required now. When I get home tonight (although squirrels were wrong on one point).