There was movement at the station
The men from Norship craned around
As the Glass bottom Boat left the ground
After being passed around
She was put back on the ground
Carnival is not over
Three pillars of progress remain
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Continuous improvement: yourselves
And your surroundings are your expressions in action,louder than words
Thanks to the Norship crew for their help last Tuesday morning 29/8.
Crew sought for September
Orientation week 2-4 Sept
Voyage planning and provisioning
North or South weather Patterns
Sail training celestial to GPS
Apply: [email protected]
Phone: 0412712042
The collection requires an audit
Tuesday 27th June the journey into the past and provenence of the collection begins.
Call 0412712042 if you would like to help
Unpack , assess and repack the arefacts
Create artefact storage location register
Plan Fundraising Events and define Membership benefits
Seek corporate support
Build capacity
The 80 year old Flagship of the Cairns Maritime Museum represents 20 years of restoration and reconstruction by the active members of the Cairns Maritime Museum Community Organisation in FNQ. The vessel may just be a good idea to promote the water craft of our Far Northern Cultural heritage and remain in the hands of members into the future. To support this vision we have sought ongoing BSE maintenance sponsorship hence the request for another tidal cycle in the drydock.
Attending the TSRIC 25 year MABO day celebrations on 31/ 5 / 2017 was a great opportunity for the Cairns Maritime Museum to meet the TSRI Councillors and approach the subject of Identity Island Luggers. Recycling these Island Luggers is a positive move and fundraising is within reach of local authorities.
Mutually beneficial to all island sea country interests is a simple obligation to recycle and restore the weathering identity Island Luggers which will sustain abililies and rediscover the recently forgotten skillsets to maintain these remarkable sailing technologies.
Relevant technology today is defined by its scale, affordability, simplicity and non violent nature.
Effort and resources could quicken the result in recovering the few Luggers left, lean logic returns many happy returns.
Luggers are small scale. destruction is forever while even weathered identity Island Luggers are story-tellers.
Ideally a seaworthy story telling island identity vessel can be identified and maintained presently they are all too easily at risk of being lost. Unless all put all back together again for many happy returns this Twenty fifth Mabo day.
Inactive Honorary Memberships cost nothing and help to identify our Association friends..
In order that the Association can fulfil its obligations as a charitable gift recipient organisation your subscription membership can be deposited into the COMbank Cairns Maritime Museum society account in Lake Street Cairns.This can be done in person at any COMbank Branch or by sending your subscription to PO Box 5458 Cairns 4870 Queensland or on line if you have a COMbank Account of your own.
The membership is $50.00 and simply supports the adminisration from year to year and allows members to engage in our activities and actions.
Join the journey learn from the past.
Voyage into the field as active members.
Subscriptions for 2017-18 are now due.
BSB 064 804 918 982 Commonwealth Society Account.

In mid April a workshop was held in Brisbane to share ideas and stories about Queensland shipwrecks .The locations of only about 25% of the almost 1000 lost Ships are known but the tragic loss of life and property remain as untold stories too.
The Workshop presented a vision of how in the context of a travelling exhibition some of these stories could be told.
WATCH THIS SPACE
On March 23 2017 at the HQ of Ports North a meeting between the principals of CMM and WBAC met to review the conditions of our joint occupancy at the Floria compound 68 Tingira Street.
The Shipwreck Museum remains an appropriate brand identity and a stage of significance to research and reconcile the heroic past masters of the Great Barrier Reef wilderness.
Those who survived and those who did not.
A keeping place and learning centre remains the vision for the principle Groups involved.
Quarterly discussions between the groups are proposed to encourage mutual and clear initiatives to proceed synergistically.
We all look forward to a mild winter of contentment, down at the yard.
