May 13, 2016
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 […]
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 […]
April 13, 2016
She’s 213 feet long from bowsprit to stern, weighs in at 586 tons, carries 13,000 square feet of sail and on her way to Australia now. […]
April 13, 2016
Crazy about wooden boats? We’re looking for you! It’s that time again in the two-year cycle of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, when we start to get […]
April 13, 2016
Greetings, All There’s more than one count-down to watch this month and you’ll find them both covered in this months’ AWBF blog. The big news, […]
February 12, 2016
Greetings, All Recovered from the Christmas holidays and ‘shack month’ in January? Back up to speed and conscious of the fact that there are only 10 […]
February 12, 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1342″ img_size=”1200,600″ alignment=”center”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Channel Classic, organised by the Australian Wooden Boat Festival with the cooperation of local tall ships Windeward Bound and Rhona H, opened […]