The Project began in 2013 with a plan to build a Replica of the RYS Wanderer-the 25 metre top-sail Schooner that Ben Boyd sailed to Australia. After 4 years work,the Wanderer Replica keel had been half laid but the volunteer workers had disbanded, there was no foreseeable finance and no sustainable Business Plan was in place.
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BENJAMIN BOYD was born in London on August 21st.1801. He was the second son of Janet and Edward Boyd, a London merchant of Merton Hall, Wigtown. His grandfather was a wealthy landowner and a minister of the Church of Scotland. Boyd grew up on the Merton Hall estate at the family home Penninghame, Wigtown in Wigstonshire.
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to perpetuate the activities of Benjamin Boyd in Australia between 1842 and 1849 by promulgating his activities in an around Boydtown and Twofold Bay.
- The Benjamin Boyd History Centre located in the Boydtown Shipyard is one of the three Pillars supporting the story of Ben Boyd.
- The second Pillar is to build historic Whale boats in our Boydtown Shipyard with the possibility of reviving the Eden Whaleboat Regatta.
- The third Pillar is a separate project to support the purchase of a top-sail Schooner-The Wanderer 2-to operate year-round cruising in and out of Eden.
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The Ben Boyd Story is one of Australia’s most colourful-the Scottish born bachelor stock broker who entertained the wealthy and noble of Europe and later his turned his sights to the South Seas in search of profit and adventure. Instead he lost his life and possessions.