Providence Sailing Magnetic Island Queensland Australia

at Nellie Bay Marina Magnetic Island, Townsville , 4819 Australia

1. Boat Service
2. Tour Company

PROVIDENCE V is a 72 foot gaff rigged,top sail, Schooner. Built in 1988 as a 1/2 size replica America's Cup sailing ship.

Description

Providence V is a family-owned topsail schooner on Magnetic Island owned by Grant Lewis and Lindsay Simpson. They have five children: Elliot, James, Phoebi, Oscar and Jess. You may even meet some of them when you are out sailing. Providence V was built in North Queensland out of some of the last of the Tully rainforest timber by a wooden boat builder who still lives in North Queensland. He went all the way to America to get the plans and after several months of driving from Florida up to Maine, found the Gloucester schooner in the Mystic River. He was given permission by the museum to build one such schooner. So she is entirely unique. Providence was built in Mourilyn in the builder’s boatbuilding yard with his two sons. She was named Providence V as that was the fifth boat the boatbuilder saw on that trip named Providence. She has starred in a Hollywood movie, Survive the Savage Seas in 1992 having being found by a scout while sailing from Cairns to the Gold Coast. More information on her history is in an article Lindsay wrote about her including an interview with the boatbuilder who would prefer to remain unnamed. Suffice to say he is entirely knowledgeable about her history and that Scheel keel.

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Summary

Providence Sailing Magnetic Island Queensland Australia is Townsville based place and this enity listed in Tour Company category. Located at Nellie Bay Marina Magnetic Island QLD 4819. Contact phone number of Providence Sailing Magnetic Island Queensland Australia: 0427882062