LBT committee contact details
Bios and EMAIL CONTACTS FOR LBT COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Postal address: PO Box 79 Franklin Tasmania 7113 Australia
Doug Barton: Honorary Secretary
Another emigre from the frozen north and now 20 years in Franklin. Sometimes I get really scared on boats, at other times sailing fulfils every dream of adventure and camaraderie.
Love the LBT; hate meetings that go on too long and wish I had more time to mess around on boats and in the shed. Retirement can’t come too soon.
Ninka Koc: Honorary Treasurer
John Young: committee member, sailmaster, editor Garboard Strake
Chris Wilson: co-ordinator & webmaster
coord@lbt.org.au +613 6297 8338 0488 978 338
Peter Laidlaw: committee member, boat builder
Currently, my passions are my children (home educating), practical permaculture systems and teaching others about sustainable living, especially permaculture. For the last 3 years the children and I have built our house, and established a small working farm. In former lives I have dairy farmed, roused in shearing sheds, ridden polo and racehorses, been a rural journalist, nanny, farm secretary, & ……….and I have wonderful childhood memories of the beautiful woody smells of my Dad’s workshop where he built boats and other treasures.
Celia Leverton: committee member
Lea Morgan: committee member
Long time nurse, remote area nurse and midwife. Spent 10 years living and working in Central Australia and the Top End, this experience has developed and changed my views about Indigenous issues, Primary Health Care and the world.
Now had a year of training in retirement and wonder how ever there was time to work anyway. Arguably do more for people’s health now than before as a nurse.
Had a father who was a keen boatie and built dinghies and canoes with him. My boat preferences have developed to multihulls but enjoy any boat really.
Ex-academic, (History and Environmental Studies) and co-founder of Wooden Boat school in Franklin. Foundation member of the Living Boat Trust.Inc. and past Co-ordinator. I’ve been interested in wooden boats since I was 4½ and have built and repaired more than I can remember.
Retired Chartered Accountant. Another Pom who emigrated to Australia in 1992. After perspiring for a number of years in Queensland and Northern NSW “discovered” Tasmania in 2007.
A love of wood and things made thereof but, as yet, no real passion for boats. Having participated in Tawe Nunnugah 2009 I am confident that a passion will come about.
And of course, Meg.
Peter moved to Tasmania 16 years ago from Adelaide and has been slowly watching the fruit tree and has finally grown enough mulberries to make wine from. He enjoys playing the ukelele badly and likes seeing the woodshed full of firewood before winter sets in. Peter teaches boatbuilding and sailing but secretly wishes he’d become a bank manager.
Although I am visually impaired I do have all of my own teeth. I also have an opinion that I am good at everything but as I age I am considering this may in fact be a delusion of sorts. I also enjoy levity. I like to challenge myself and do so with vigour. I enjoy meeting people and being part of a community.
Dave Abott: Committee member
Alistair McRae: Committee member
I've lived in Franklin for 15 years and have been a member of the LBT for 3 seasons. I work at the Uni as a Research Officer doing feedback surveys on students and recent graduates. I've sailed and/or owned boats for 30 years, and used to teach sailing for a while. Otherwise I'm into cycling, music, bushwalking, vegetarian food and having fun. I'm going to work for a bit more, then build a house, then do a mix of the above for a while, then hopefully drop dead without too much fuss/with a smile on my face.
John Walduck: Committee member
I am happily retired in this wonderful valley, In a former life I was a dentist, but please don't hold that against me. I have a Tammie Norrie (Grebe) dingy that I built back in 2003, and am custodian of a 1923 vintage "put put" built by Ned Jack in Launceston. I have a long association with small boats and canoes, and have a secret desire to own something bigger, but.....
Am a 6th Generation Tasmanian. Early days spent on grandfathers 45 foot Huon Pine cutter, a Wilson Bros boat. Have sailed and owned lots of different boats from international cadets, cadet dinghies, fireballs, lightweight sharpie, hobie cat, Seawind 24 to present boat ,a Farrier 31 9A owned in parnership with LBT coordinator Chris Wilson. Feel more at home on the sea than the land.