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).
Videos and Slides
Latest News
- Venture Scouts at the LBT
Matt, Peter and Des set up a traditional boating trades workshop and the scouts and their leaders learnt how to salvage timber, bend it, and use draw knives spoke shaves and other hand tools to make it into useful items. - Monday night, pizza night
Summer seems to have finally arrived, hopefully for more than one day, so lets celebrate with an outdoorsy menu – pizzas! Bring yours to share, $5 for the kitty and something to drink after 6pm. Pic from Wikipedia - Last day of On the Water
The kids from Franklin Primary School finally had a warm day to enjoy, and made the most of it with a row down to a sea eagle’s nest, and then a swim at the playground. Pics from Nell Tyson - A new Grebe build
The stem, keel and transom of a Grebe have joined the collection on the upstream wall of the Shed. We hope they will be the basis of a project to be run with Franklin Primary School, and that at the end of next year a new boat will added to the fleet. Pic from JP - Mystery knife
Richard Catt retrieved his missing sail bag from the LBT today, and found a knife in it which does not belong to him. If you recognize it as yours we can put you in contact with him. - Huon Yacht Club Pontoon
It has been a few years since the Club wharf washed away, but according to our spies at Shipwright’s Point work has begun on the replacement. - The Scouts are coming
Over the weekend there will be up to a 100 scout venturers camping at the Watershed. They will be using LBT facilities – so don’t get a fright if you walk into the Shed and there is a mob. We have been trying to put together some activities for them, hence the head scratching about… Read more: The Scouts are coming
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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