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June 16, 2011 Item 2: CD Long

1. CD Long.

2. Detail.

3. Elevated.

4. Loaded.

CD Long is the result of two hardwood drawer faces being converted to the top

and bottom of this piece. The left and right sides are pine cut from a separate drawer. The backing is a cut down section of found timber backing board. The internal surface was painted white with house paint. Only the main surfaces being sanded and the whole external varnished creating a good contrast of darker areas within the handle detailing of the drawer faces. Some wood

putty was used to fill in damaged and irregular corner joints and small feet screwed to the base to float the whole thing.

5. Half double varnish technique.

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June 15, 2011 Boat 4: All Prezz Exprezz

1. My son with his creation 'The All Prezz Exprezz.'

2. The All Prezz Exprezz.

3. Bon Voyage.

The All Prezz Exprezz was a fine little craft created by my son. A cylindrical foam core hull with a carved wooden rudder, a coffee cup as a sail, a lump of sandstone roped to the hull as ballast and a honed wooden peg used to tension the rudder rope. She took of quite well in the steady south westerly breeze but was unable to clear the heads and ‘did a double whammy’ into the rocks on the other side of Little Bay.

June 13, 2011 Boat 3: Rectangular Knight

1. Rectangular Knight.

2. Rectangular Knight.

3. Shell rudder and fore and aft foam hull.

4. Launch.

5. Heading into Botany Bay.

6. Bon Voyage.

This boat was put together in about 10 minutes. Evidenced by the fact that it has a sail made from a stick pushed through a piece of newspaper. Apart from being a good name for a jazz album the Rectangular Knight is notable for the yellow red colour combination and the odd yet surprisingly successful ’90 deg. out of kilter’ catamaran hull, the fragment of shell as rudder and of coarse the little plastic space man knight found in the sand. I am not sure how long a news paper sail would last but this little vessel quickly disappeared from sight out into Botany Bay.

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June 13, 2011 Boat 2: Matter of Fact

1. Matter of Fact ready to go.

2. Matter of Fact jpg

3. The launch jpg

4. Bon voyage jpg

Named in part due to the hasty construction (probably 30-40 minutes including scrounging time) and also the addition of the VB beer label (“Matter O fact I got it now ” was the add slogan referring to the thirst for a VB). Though they say we do some of our best work or at least make ground breaking discoveries when we are under pressure. My son and I ran out of time at the beach this day and the Matter of Fact was thrown together very quickly. Not being able to find a suitable single mast the system was rigged up whereby a double hinged mast including a forked stick was pulled together with found twine. Though not the prettiest boat on the water, this little skimmer took of like a stabbed rat when we dropped her on the water, look at the wake in picture 3. You can just make her out in the top right corner of the water in picture 4.

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June 5, 2011 Boat 1: Storm Rider

1. Storm Rider front view.

2. Rear view showing foam hull, double tension stick mast, wooden rudder, twine from unwound yellow rope and PET floats.

3. PET floats are partly filled with water to effect stability.

4. Launch.

5. Bon Voyage.

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This storm was rolling up the coast over Botany Bay as the Storm Rider was being composed and then launched out towards the heads across the Bay. She employed an experimental PET bottle triple hull holding some water for stability and sported a flash red PVC sail from some long abandoned floaty toy wedged in the rocks, a carved timber blade rudder and a wedge of surfboard foam as the main hull. Note the tanker in the background in pictures 5-9 and the lack of reflection on the water from the light conditions. Not to mention the cloud formations over the Kurnell Peninsula.

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May 30, 2011 Item 1: Long Drawer 1

1. Full height

These long drawers were found in Newtown (refer pic 4) and had evidence of being been previously fixed over the years. They were cut back and shelves inserted over a backing of paper record covers (From Pigeon Ground Records). A piece of driftwood was used as a base fascia (refer pic 2) concealing the previously ‘repaired’ crooked rear of the drawer, now bottom shelf.  Note the alternating timber types in the shelves.

2. Fascia
3. Corner detail
4. After and before
5. Loaded

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