Just messing around in boats, particularly old boats
The Living Boat Trust (LBT) is dedicated to keeping Tasmania’s marine heritage alive and to maintaining traditional boat building, repairing, rowing and sailing skills. Find us on the banks of the Huon River at Franklin in southern Tasmania. We celebrate the history and beauty of this area (and its boats), strive for a sustainable way of life for all concerned and to be a vital part of our community (and the boats).
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Latest News
- Progress on Capricornia
Piet Lunstedt and Henk Brolsma have been working away on the new centreboard case. Henk sent in the attached photo: ‘Capricornia – the old and the new. The old centreboard and the new centreboard housing.‘ - Rowing at Port Esperance 27th Sept
See the flyer below for details. - Opportunity knocks: LBT news editor wanted
The editor of the LBT news column (Richard) will be away for 6 weeks from September the twentieth. We are looking for somebody to help out for this period. For anybody who is interested it is an opportunity to learn a little bit about WordPress, the base platform for the LBT and around 40% of… Read more: Opportunity knocks: LBT news editor wanted - Monday night Mediterranean
Bring your dish from Spain, Italy, the Levant, North Africa, you choose. After 6pm, with something to drink and $5 for the kitty. - Even more Jack de Crow
Turns out that the ‘Jack de Crow’ special featured last week and pictured below belongs to LBT member Oscar Ellis. He and his family are living in Boat Harbour at the moment, hence the confusion. We suspect that Oscar’s father David may have had something to do with this project. Sandy Mackinnon has recently published… Read more: Even more Jack de Crow - Sunday Community Catch Up
Sometimes Murphy looks the other way, or loses concentration or gets it wrong. In any event he allowed us perfect weather, a coincidence with Father’s Day and didn’t interfere with the excellent organisation which led to the Sunday Catch Up being a resounding success. There were many new faces at the LBT mixing with the… Read more: Sunday Community Catch Up - Reminder: movie at the Palais Sunday
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island is a wonderfully warm and quirky film centred around Charles, an eccentric lottery winner living a quiet, isolated life on a remote Welsh island. His great passion is music, and when he gets the chance to reunite two former members of a much-loved musical duo, he sees an opportunity to… Read more: Reminder: movie at the Palais Sunday
Resources
- Tas Met Bureau (BOM)
- Castle Forbes Bay Weather
- Meteye Franklin Forecast
- Meteye text – for phones
- Windy for Franklin
- Tides for Castle Forbes Bay
- WillyWeather tides, wind etc
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