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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
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 […]
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 […]
August 14, 2016
The Living Boat Trust in Franklin, Tasmania, still has places available for the remarkable adventure they call the Tawe Nunnugah Raid. This is a hosted expedition […]
July 15, 2016
The theme of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in 2017 is Tasmania’s long Dutch history, starting with the visit of navigator and explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman some […]