Thread: Traditional Gippsland Lakes fishing boat

James Frecheville at Paynesville might be a good place to start
http://www.fhboats.com.au/
They've restored & built a few boats in that vein.
cheers
AJ

http://www.fhboats.com.au/toonalook.htm

Consider a look at the Queensciff Maritime Museum. They have a collection of boats in the shed including a couta boat built on site over ta few years as a skills continuation project. Used to have a fair collection of drawings of 'lines' for traditional boats as well.

For a smallish boat like that you'd be surprised at how easy it is to take the lines off one yourself. It's a very satisfying process, I've done it for a number of boats now.

Thanks All for your replies, have been keeping an eye on the fhboats site, it's a good source of info for boat styles and watching boat builds/restorations, have spoken with james frecheville in the past and he has offerred to take lines off an existing boat. I will keep hunting down info on the design I'm after and will give the Queenscliff museum a shot in the next few weeks.
Cheers David

I put up some pics up of a Murray River Flattie. And Estuary fishing boat. This one has a ply bottom which is probably why it is in such good shape otherwise (ply is very stable).



Not suggesting it as an alternative for this project .. but that it would be nice if people collect pictures of these types of boats as they run across them - the smaller ones tend to be overlooked ... many are on their very last legs and a half dozen pics can make a big difference.



As you can see, weight saving was not a serious issue!!

I have a few sets of different boats here and more pics of the flattie too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boatmik...7604814618220/
This is something the net does very well indeed.

Send them to me if you don't have a way of putting them on the net
[email protected] (Mods - don't worry about hiding my email from spam, I am safe).

Best wishes
MIK