Lady Huia
Provenance
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Settings
- 23mm · f/8.0 · 1/6 · ISO 100
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The hull of Lady Huia shows the marks of time, moored within the silent sheds of Halvorsens Boat Yard. This historic yard, once a centre of Australian boatbuilding, now succumbs to decay.
Open edition
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Limited edition
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Lady Huia
- Series
- Halvorsens Boat Yard
- Catalogue
- HBY-007
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 24 June 2018
- Camera
- NIKON D850
- Lens
- 14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
- Aperture
- f/8.0
- Shutter
- 1/6 s
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 23 mm
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Paper size
- 290 × 200 mm
- Location
- Putney, New South Wales, Australia
- Authenticity
- C2PA verified provenance →
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Putney, New South Wales, Australia
Map · Mapbox · OpenStreetMap
A timber-hulled cruiser named *Lady Huia* sits propped on wooden cradles inside a covered slipway. Steel trusses span overhead, some panels of the corrugated roof missing or buckled green with corrosion. Rail tracks run the length of the concrete floor toward open water at the far end. Late afternoon light catches the vessel's white hull and fills the translucent fibreglass wall panels along the right side. The air in here would smell of brine, old grease, and damp timber.
Brett Patman
The series
Halvorsens Boat Yard
Halvorsens Boat Yard ran on the Parramatta River at Ryde from 1939 to 1980, on a five-acre site that had once been part of James Squire's colonial brewery wharf. The yard was Lars Halvorsen Sons' main works, with engineering, blacksmith, lumber, machine, plumbing, and sheet metal shops, plus five slipways for craft up to 90 feet and 100 tons. The Halvorsen family enterprise built 1,299 vessels between 1925 and 1976; over 200 of those went to the Australian, United States, and Dutch forces during the Second World War, including 178 38-foot air-sea rescue boats and 16 112-foot Fairmile motor launches. In 1962 the yard built Gretel, Australia's first America's Cup challenger. Production at Ryde wound down through 1979 and the site was sold to the Royal Australian Navy in 1980.
Print sizes
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What collectors say
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Lesley J.
28 November 2025
Very emotive, and creative work.
Beautiful piece. Perfect gift for our boat loving,“sailing” friend.
