August 27, 2019
The Chairman of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival Inc, Steve Knight OAM, was recently invited to give a presentation to the members of the Tasmanian Club, […]
February 18, 2018
We are busy planning the next Australian Wooden Boat Festival, and we hit the ground running after the Christmas break. There’s a lot of work to […]
December 15, 2017
Our long-serving Dock Master, Ross Barnett, is a man who knows a thing or two about wooden boats. He’d restored enough of them, God knows, and […]
May 22, 2017
If you own a wooden boat (or if you used to own a boat and you’re all better now), this little story might ring a bell: […]
February 10, 2017
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 […]
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 […]
March 12, 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Kingston Sea Scouts’ Fazackerley dinghy restored for ‘another fifty years’ of service Arunta is an 18 foot Fazackerley built in 1968 for the Kingston Sea Scout […]
February 12, 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Imagine for a moment a drowned forest, deep in the cold tannin-dark waters of a Tasmanian highland lake. Hundreds of silent trees, still firmly rooted into […]