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June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016
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Festival Season Is Upon Us

The Australian Wooden Boat Festival carries the torch for wooden boat enthusiasts in the Southern Hemisphere, but of course there are a lot more boats, and […]
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June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016
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Tawe Nunnugah – Small Boats, Big Adventure

The village of Franklin, a short distance south of Hobart on the Huon River, is a growing centre of wooden boat enthusiasm, with the Wooden Boat […]
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June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016
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Great Photography Gets Results

We are very pleased to see the media campaign for the next Australian Wooden Boat Festival get underway with the latest issue of one of Australia’s most […]
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June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016
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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 […]
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June 13, 2016
June 13, 2016
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Huon Pine Escapes Harvest

Our intrepid Media Manager, Daryl Peebles, visited the 29th Australian National Bonsai Convention at Hobart recently and took this photo of a bonsai Huon pine tree, presented […]
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June 9, 2016
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June 9, 2016
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Commercial Displays – everything for your boat!

The Maritime Marketplace at the festival has certainly become a crowd favourite. New marine products and specialist advice are a must for the boatowner. Suppliers of […]
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May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016
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The Floating Music Shed

This one is just too good to let it go.  Can you remember the 2013 Wooden Boat Festival?  Remember that crazy outback tin shed floating around […]
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May 13, 2016
May 13, 2016
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Farewell Trim, hello ‘Trim’

Of all the Jellicle Cats to inhabit the Hobart waterfront, the best-loved was Trim, ship’s cat aboard the two-masted brigantine Windeward Bound for just over 15 […]
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