"Ned is a traditional wooden boat builder, specializing in dinghies. He works his magic in a simple wooden shed at Gordon, Tasmania, over looking the waters of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel and Bruny Island.
A man attuned to the painstaking details that make a wooden boat sing. One of the first graduates of the Shipwright's Point School of Wooden Boat Building diploma course. Ned has operated his boat building and repair business for twelve years and has added nautical furniture and half models to his business.
It takes 200-250 hours to make a dinghy, using hand tools that carry the knowledge of artisans long gone. Each piece of timber has its own history - a section of convict cut Huon Pine carried by the river into Macquarie Harbour, Oregon rescued for mast and spars from a demolished building from the last century. King Billy recycled from the West Coast mines near Rosebury."
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