September 23, 2016
Thinking of Sailing to Tasmania? About this time of the year before the festival, we start receiving dozens of enquiries from mainland boat owners about […]
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September 23, 2016
A record number of marine companies will be displaying in the Maritime Marketplace at AWBF 2017. Princes Wharf Shed will be full to capacity with 85 […]
September 23, 2016
Roscoe Barnett is a Kettering boat owner and wooden boat tragic. He is a member of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival Inc and has been the On […]
September 23, 2016
Using Your Windlass the Right Way After 28 years with Tasmania’s Muir Engineering, Craig McNaughton knows a windlass when he sees one. Here, he gives us […]
August 20, 2016
Antarctic Ship Tours There’s been a huge response to the public tours of the Antarctic ships Aurora Australis and L’Astrolabe during the Australian Antarctic Festival (8-11 […]
August 14, 2016
There’s a wonderful line-up of feature vessels in store for visitors to the 2017 Australian Wooden Boat Festival, including the mighty James Craig, the popular return […]
August 14, 2016
The Dutch Boat Project is off to a racing start with the first cut of the rare Tasmanian timber that will be used for the construction […]
August 14, 2016
There’s a stellar line-up planned for the 2017 International Wooden Boat Symposium, sponsored by the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and directed by AWBF board member […]
August 14, 2016
Festival Stats and Deadlines It’s the largest wooden boat festival in the Southern Hemisphere and it takes two years to organise, but it continues an upward […]