Boatsheds are generally lockable wooden sheds, often brightly colored, that were originally built to securely store small private boats A boat is a watercraft of modest size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is something small enough to be carried aboard another and bathing materials directly on beaches A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of a body of water. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobble. The particles of which the beach is composed can sometimes instead have biological origins, such as shell fragments or coralline algae fragments. They are similar in appearance to beach huts (or "bathing boxes"), with the main difference being an integrated boat launching ramp directly to the beach (although some ramps have been replaced with steps, reflecting changes in usage).
Boatsheds are typically around 6.2m long x 3.0m wide x 2.4m high, which is somewhat larger than local bathing boxes (typically only 2.4m long x 2.0m wide x 2.0m high). Boatsheds have a roof pitch of around 30°, which is somewhat shallower than the 35° roof pitch of local bathing boxes.
Port Phillip Bay Port Phillip (also commonly Port Phillip Bay or just The Bay) is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia. Geographically, the bay covers 1,930 square kilometres (480,000 acres) and the shore stretches roughly 264 km (164 mi). Although it is extremely shallow for its size, most of the bay is navigable. The deepest portion is only 24 metres (79 and Western Port Bay in Victoria After the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788, the continent was divided into an eastern half named New South Wales, and a western half named New Holland, under the administration of the colonial government in Sydney. The first European settlement in Victoria which was established in October 1803 under Lieutenant-Governor David, Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the continental mainland (the world's smallest), the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.N4 Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor, and Papua New Guinea to the north, the Solomon are currently home to about 1860 boatsheds, bathing boxes and similar structures.[1]
See also
- Beach hut (bathing box)
References
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Brighton Bathing Box Association. http://www.brightonbathingbox.org.au/FAQ.html. Retrieved 2008-01-30.
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Otago Daily Times
The vessel will then be taken to pieces and re-erected on the reclaimed land on a section adjoining the Otago Rowing Club's boatshed . ...
