September 2, 2018
The countdown has begun – we do not have long to go now, until the MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival, 2019! As I sit down to […]
September 2, 2018
If you were out and about on the Hobart waterfront on the first weekend in August, you would have seen a lot of familiar faces from […]
August 28, 2018
The MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival is a community event, presented completely free to the general public. We are dedicated to promoting the culture and heritage […]
July 16, 2018
Image: Self-Portrait with Aurora Australis by Doug Thost Did you know that the early history of exploration in Antarctica was dependent on wooden boats? Long […]
July 16, 2018
Down at Dave Golding’s sawmill on the Huon River, we’ve seen the first steps taken to transform reclaimed timber from the highland lakes of Tasmania transformed […]
July 16, 2018
A Herreshoff-designed 53-foot ketch built by Canadian tuna fisherman Douglas Baron in 1974 in Sidney, Vancouver, British Columbia will be featured at the 2019 MyState Australian […]
July 16, 2018
It is an exciting exercise for each MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival – choosing the design for the festival poster. The accumulated collection of festival posters […]
July 8, 2018
Now, here’s a great lounge room game you can play when it’s cold and raining and definitely not sailing weather outside. Check out Off Center Harbor’s […]
June 15, 2018
We are well into Hobart festival season now, something that would have been pretty unthinkable just a few years ago. Back in 2001, the only sign […]