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In the tall ships lineup from left to right: WINDEWARD BOUND, ENTERPRIZE, LADY NELSON, and JULIE BURGESS at the Elizabeth Street Pier, My State Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart, Tasmania, in 2019.

Source: WINDEWARD BOUND – The Windward Bound Trust

Conceived in 1965 and launched in 1996, ‘…Windeward Bound has covered more than 100,000 nautical miles, has circumnavigated the Australian continent, sailed to New Zealand and back, circumnavigated Tasmania, crossed Bass Strait more than 30 times and sailed the Australian East Coast many times’.

Brigantine WINDEWARD BOUND is constructed of Tasmanian eucalypt, Huon pine, and Oregon.

Source: ENTERPRIZE – Melbourne’s Tall Ship

‘ENTERPRIZE is a 27-metre topsail schooner, a replica of the tall ship that brought the first settlers from Launceston, Tasmania to what is now The City of Melbourne, Victoria, in 1835…’

Source: LADY NELSON – Launched in 1988 at Margate, Tasmania, the LADY NELSON is a full-sized replica of the original Deptford-built brig built in 1798.

Source: JULIE BURGESS – The Julie Burgess Tall Ship Experiences

‘Captain Harry Burgess commissioned Launceston Shipbuilder Ned Jack to build the new fishing boat to replace the Ada Burgess which had been wrecked in 1934. Ned was unwilling to venture from the normal design but Harry finally convinced him, and the ketch named the Julie Burgess, after Harry’s wife, was launched in the Tamar River in 1936.

She was built from blue gum, Huon pine and other Tasmanian timbers and some of her original timbers were able to be used in her reconstruction’. 

‘…the Devonport City Council purchased the Julie Burgess from Captain Dick Burgess as a result of a Federal Government grant.

Work commenced in 2010 on the complete refitting of the Julie Burgess to convert her from a retired fishing boat to a passenger carrying working exhibit for the Bass Strait Maritime Centre.’