At Monday night dinner we heard about Matt Gogarty’s plans for a holiday in some islands off Sumatra, which lead to Piet Lundstedt regaling us with taies of visiting another Indonesian island, Madura, which is a serious wooden boat building centre. If you are feeling like some armchair travel in a warmer climate you might like to (re) read the item Mike Dredge wrote for us a couple of years ago about Madura <<here>>, or watch the trailer for a video about sailing around New Guinea in a traditional canoe: see it <<here>>. This latter will be featured in a symposium at the Wooden Boat festival.
