December 17, 2016
We will welcome more than 30 visitors from the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival in February 2017. Seven more are already with […]
November 20, 2016
There’ s lot to see at the AWBF, but we also need people to see us before the event, and that’s where a long tradition of […]
November 20, 2016
In collaboration with our Dutch friends to celebrate the 375th anniversary of Dutch explorer, Abel Tasman, visiting what would one day become Tasmania, we at the […]
September 23, 2016
At the Far Side of the World …there’s work afoot. In the Royal Kingdom of the Netherlands, talk of the MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival in […]
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 […]
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 […]
May 13, 2016
The story of the early Dutch explorers and their ships, soon to be a major theme of the 2017 Australian Wooden Boat Festival, gets started this […]
May 13, 2016
Greetings, All This is an unusual year for us, with two festivals to produce in the next ten months, the Australian Antarctic Festival in September and […]
April 13, 2016
There’s a long tradition of inviting other nations with strong maritime traditions to come and be part of the largest wooden boat festival in the […]