My new wooden boat

Looks cool - bet she sounds great and goes well too!

Thanks. She sounds awesome. Be taking her to Bribie for the wooden boat regatta in May if anybody is nearby.

Where's the ski pole?

Ski pole didn't quite fit the look in the 30's. Those two eyes on the aft deck go down to serious brackets so they can tow if necessary.

Some wooden ski boats are in the thread
Old ski boats, six pages of posts starting at
< www.hcvc.com.au/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1351313230/0> ;
I have some there, photographed at Goolwa (SA) Wooden Boat Festival.

Here is a c1960 wooden runabout which was donated to Queenscliffe Maritime Museum (Vic.), and which was displayed at a recent Geelong (Vic.) Wooden Boat Festival. The early Mercury didn't come with the boat, but museum selected it specially to match the style and the era.
See: <www.maritimequeenscliffe.org.au>

140309Su Geelong WBF. Queenscliff Museum ~1960 wooden boat with an old Mercury outboard. Roderick Smith

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor