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February 12, 2016

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More Awards Than You Can Shake a Stick At

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1329″ img_size=”1200×800″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Vice Chairman of AWBF, Inc Peter Higgs and Office Manager Bronwyn Hansson accept the Hobart City Council’s Australia Day Award for Best Community Event […]

January 11, 2016

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International Wooden Boat Symposium Gathers Support

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are very pleased to announce that the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) will enter into a closer association with the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in 2017. Last year’s highly successful […]

January 11, 2016

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AWBF Wins Community Event of the Year Award

The MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2015 has been named the Australia Day Community Event of the Year by the Hobart City Council. The award recognises […]

January 8, 2016

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Tall Ships Line Up For AWBF 2017

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have excellent news that the feature vessel line-up for 2017 is already looking good and we may even be scratching our heads to figure out […]

January 8, 2016

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Book Review – BOAT by Simon Griffiths

The back cover of Simon Griffiths new book ‘Boat’ tells us that: ‘Simon Griffiths has paced docksides and jetties all over Australia to bring us a […]

January 8, 2016

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How’s Your Maritime History?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our readers often get in touch with us to ask for help from other mariners to fill in blank spots in the record of an historical boat or a […]

January 8, 2016

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The Channel Classic – Hobart to Kettering (and back)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Would you like a bright and breezy day out on the beautiful River Derwent? Would you like to see the action up close at the Kettering […]

December 10, 2015

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Tall Ships – Amsterdam Puts on a Show

In the European summer, our intrepid Media Manager, Daryl Peebles and his partner Elsje visited Amsterdam for the largest gathering of tall ships on the planet, […]

December 10, 2015

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Tall Ships Adventure on the River Derwent

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Photo: Galina Romalis[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Royal Hobart Regatta and the Kettering Wooden Boat Rally will be connected this summer for the first time by Hobart’s tall ships Windeward Bound and […]