RESEARCH BACKGROUND: This video forms part of the Time and Tide Creative Research Project. It is underpinned by the question of how an urban history looks different when approached from the point of view of water and catchment rather than land.

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: This video represents a visually and aurally rich exploration of an important Norman Creek industry that is almost entirely missing from the local histories of the suburbs in which the boat building occurred. It adds considerable historical context, biographical and industrial process detail to the coverage of this history in Harper (2009)'s 'Classic Moreton Bay Cruisers' and Helen Gregory's (2003) 'The Brisbane River Story - Meanders through Time'. It links this maritime history to broader social and ecological histories of the environment, and to knowledge of this Brisbane industry and to specific histories of working in wood.

RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: This was screened at the State Library of Queensland's Talking Water Symposium in March 2013. It has the capacity to exemplify Bourriaud’s (2002) relational aesthetics and Somerville’s (2008) place based pedagogy. It bears out Pierre Nora’s (1980) argument in ‘Lieux de Memoire’ that only as communities risk losing parts of their material culture does the urge to memorialize typically arise. Underpinning this short documentary is substantial material culture that may form the fabric of a future exhibition, and a detailed history of work and a largely archaic industrial process.