Maylands Amateur Boat Building Yard

Statement of Significance

• The place has aesthetic value as a collection of practical and robust structures that reflect their function, in a well maintained landscape adjacent to the river. • The place has historic value for its provision of facilities to the sailing community since the 1960s. • The place has social value for the many members of the Maylands and wider community who regularly use the place and have done since the 1960s.

Physical Description

Located between Hardey Road and the Swan River, the Maylands Amateur Boatbuilding Yard is a facility which provides space for amateur boat builders to build, maintain, repair or store their own boats on site. In the centre of the site is large corrugated metal shed type building with a gabled corrugated metal roof. The building is surrounded by bitumen roads, lawned areas with large mature trees and the waterfront has piers with docking areas. The facilities of the boatbuilding yard include hardstand areas, undercover areas, trailer bays, water pens, boat supplies/chandlery and a twenty tonne slipway. South of the Maylands Amateur Boat Building Yard, on Tranby Reserve, is the old winch and boat trolley associated with boat yards in the vicinity.

History

This area of Maylands was subdivided for development and occupancy in 1904. The land was not rapidly settled and those lots adjacent to the water were frequently used for light industry. The access to water and boat transport was an attractive feature. Aerial photographs indicate that the site was largely clear of buildings in the mid 1960s apart from one large shed. Boats were tied up in a haphazard manner to the foreshore or located on hardstand within the grounds. The Maylands Boatyard has formally been in operation since the 1960s and is leased from the Western Australian Planning Commission. Between 1985 and 1995, the current long shed parallel to the foreshore was erected and the slipway, jetties and piers erected. Since that time the layout and form of the site appears to have changed little. Maylands Amateur Boatbuilding Yard provides space for amateur boat builders to build, maintain, repair or store their own boats on site.

Condition

Good

Uses

Historic Themes

Creation Date

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Last Update