There is a fascinating place in Franklin, just of the road from us on the Huon river. The Wooden Boat Center of Tasmania offers a place to learn about wooden boat building by taking a tour as I did, or by enrolling in a course and building your own.
The boat above, made from huon pine, king billy pine and celery top pine (all of which are conifers, none of which are actual pines) is a thing of beauty. As you can see it is riveted together so that once the wood is wet and swells a bit, it'll be watertight.
