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Norwalk Islands Sharpies owners builders and dreamers can have their own garments embroidered on a modern sewing machine or take it to your local sports or school garment making specialist.

Looks pretty nice, AND you can choose alternative colors if you want!

Sight down the CL to check that it really IS aligned (it will be!). Since it's much earlier than you expected, you can go and make morning tea, or learn a new chord on your ukulele while you plan the rest of your day!

Because that's all the time it takes!

The new strongback plans are being included with the scratch plans, and the precut panels for the new strong backs are now a standard part of the precut plywood kit.

We will soon have the Festo range of German 3 year warrantied super tough and elegantly functional (year after year after year after year...) of dust extraction units, brilliant sanding and cutting tools.

The dust extractors are so powerful that many clients use them for vacuum bagging laminations and complex shapes.

Details soon.

NIS 43 Study Sheet Available.

We can now release the General arrangement of the much awaited NIS 43. NISBOATS.COM are working with Bruce finalizing plans for the (preferred by many) unstayed version.

It is a great workable layout, and looks very pretty. The unstayed version may well be the ultimate shorthanded liveaboard cruising boat.

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Temporary Building Frame, Solid Timber, Bote Cote Epoxy Resin and Glass, Ballast, Sails and Spars, Running Rig, Tabernacles and Ballast Lead Pricing and Whole of Boat Pack Deal including freight prices within Australia and overseas destinations will be posted in the next fortnight.

The Kit comes as a flat pack, on a pallet delivered to your door. Price includes delivery to any Capital city within Australia. It includes plans and instructions, and phone, email or fax backup, during building /and/ once launched.

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Robert will remain in the area for another couple of days before heading to Lake Macquarie; where he will be staying at Dora Creek with Angus Houston Tel 0410 621 707 who has an NIS 26 and both boats will be available by appointment take interested parties out on the lake. He will then travel to Pittwater, to the Royal Motor Yacht Club, Newport Beach where once more by appointment he'll take interested parties sailing on Charlie Fisher.

Put yourself in the picture, organise a sail on Charlie Fisher!

If there is sufficient interest he will travel to Canberra, and Lake Burley Griffin for more test sails. Call him en route on 0428 817 464

Then to Melbourne, where he will be 'looking after the shop' for a fortnight at Marine Timbers, Frankston on the Mornington Peninsula, in mid June while the owners take leave and will again by appointment take interested parties out sailing on the weekends or evenings.

Next stop will be Paynesville, where he will stay with James Frecheville and crew; if you want to 'catch the boat' contact James 0412 979 824 and make the appointment.

And, then back home to Adelaide, for a week of rest!

Any offers of home cooking along the way will be greeted by loud cheers and obsequious gratitude!

Inspired by the fabulous music of the Port Townsend Festival in 2005, and as a natural growth of our increasing music emphasis in past festivals, we've joined forces with a major music group in South Australia to rev up our music component to have three stages running all festival, with a much greater and more lively night time atmosphere

It's hoped that many of the 30 or so Norwalk Islands Sharpies around Australia will be with us during the week leading up to, during and after the Festival, which runs March 10-12 2007.

Truly something for every one at a price whole families can afford, and lots for those for whom boat may be a 4 letter word! South Australia at this time is a really happening place and Goolwa is only a bit over an hour's drive from Adelaide, if you want to take in some of the other attractions on this weekend.

Smile winsomely, and say admiring things, and you can bet you'll be out on peoples boats all weekend!

A great time to be in South Australia!

No screaming and rattling rigging wires in the marina, or on the mooring at night.
No need for spinnakers or jennakers or any other sails. Just wing the booms out. Past 90 degrees to the hull even. There's no wires to block the swing.
And if you want to 'sail' the canals of Europe, or anywhere where there is the prospect of low, bridge like structures you can order a set of tabernacles, so you can just raise and lower your masts at will, en route.

Great for maintenance, too, and for providing a ridge pole to sling a tarp over, for a superb vented, accessible winter 'shed'.

NIS 31. Open ocean capable to creek crawling. Now, more than ever, the */true/* big sister of the 'family'!

NIS in Classic Boat

Classic Boat has just run a big spread on the Norwalk Islands Sharpies. See the April 06, issue on your newsstands; if they have sold out ask them to get one in for you.

On arrival in Goolwa both Iain and Dan proclaimed the trip as one of the great cruises of their experience, and the boat a complete surprise.

What fun it was, and led directly to the story in CB, and the promise of more to come.