News

October 16, 2016

Letter from the Chairman

It is pretty clear now that we are facing over-subscription for water berths by as much as 40%, as expressions of interest for Boats Ashore closed on […]
September 23, 2016

GM’s Log – September 2016

Greetings, All. The most important news this month is that the first round of offers has gone out to interstate and Tasmanian boat owners seeking Boats […]
August 14, 2016

GM’s Log – August 2016

Greetings, All The 2017 Australian Wooden Boat Festival is taking good shape now, with just 5 months to go. Already, we have more than 260 expressions […]
July 14, 2016

GM’s Log – July 2016

Hectic is not the word; there has to be something stronger to describe the amount of effort going into festival preparations by the production team here […]
June 13, 2016

GM’s Log – June 2016

Greetings, All   Our thoughts go out to the many supporters of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival who have been affected by the terrible floods here […]
May 13, 2016

GM’s Log – May 2016

Greetings, All This is an unusual year for us, with two festivals to produce in the next ten months, the Australian Antarctic Festival in September and […]
April 13, 2016

General Manager’s Log – April 2016

Greetings, All   There’s more than one count-down to watch this month and you’ll find them both covered in this months’ AWBF blog. The big news, […]
March 12, 2016

General Manager’s Log – March 2016

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Greetings, All – We get the odd enquiry from time to time that goes something like this: CALLER: ‘Great festival, really enjoyed ourselves, well done.’ AWBF: ‘Thank you, […]
February 12, 2016

General Manager’s Log – February 2016

Greetings, All Recovered from the Christmas holidays and ‘shack month’ in January?  Back up to speed and conscious of the fact that there are only 10 […]