October 16, 2016
Living and working in the Roaring Forties, Tasmania’s nineteenth century light keepers and their families lived for long periods in isolation, showing incredible fortitude and resilience. […]
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 […]
July 14, 2016
photo: Rob Oates We thought it was time to shine the limelight on a few of our wonderful AWBF volunteers, some of whom have been involved […]
July 14, 2016
Hectic is not the word; there has to be something stronger to describe the amount of effort going into festival preparations by the production team here […]
June 13, 2016
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 […]
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
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, […]
March 12, 2016
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]OK, we win a few awards from time to time, but this one is a little special. At a recent ceremony at Government House, Australian Wooden […]
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 […]