Dutch students build boat out of salvaged Tasmanian timber
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To celebrate the 375th anniversary of the Dutch explorer Abel Tasmania finding Tasmania, a group of Dutch boat building students has travelled to Tasmania to build a boat for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival that is being held in Hobart this weekend. The timber has been salvaged from a hydro dam, and the celery top pine is believed to be 500 years old.
Source: PM | Duration: 4min 2sec
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, building-and-construction, tas, australia
A group of Dutch students have handcrafted a boat from wood salvaged from the bottom of a Tasmanian lake that was flooded for a hydro-electric scheme almost 40 years ago.
The students have been brought to Tasmania as part of the Wooden Boat Festival, that is celebrating the 375th anniversary of the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovering Tasmania.
Featured:
Keith Kik and Mirjam Taal, boat building students
Bert Van Baar, boat building teacher
Anne Holst, manager of the Wooden Boat Centre in Franklin
Paul Cullen, director of the Wooden Boat Festival
