Overnight sailing and rowing away from Franklin and the immediate towns.
Tom writes: Hi, LBT Adventurers, As mentioned at recent LBT dinners I am looking to take Seaire for a 2 week summer outing up to Wineglass Bay in January 23 and am inviting any interested LBT members with larger boats…
Rod Mcfarlan forwarded this link and images from an ABC article about Kate Mitchell who lived between 1847 and 1878 and spent most of her adult life on Tasmania’s east coast. Kate lived a life of adventure it seems and…
Well, the spelling isn’t quite right, but the rest of this article at traditionalsailbluewing.substack.com about Tawe Nunnugah is (mostly): read it here. ‘The 2023 RAID comes across as a Master Class on Logistics and Planning. These Aussie dinghy people, call…
Tom Stephens writes: ‘Bronwyn from the Jetty house is working on finishing two paintings from the Raid visit at Southport. Looks like “Beachmaster talking with one of the boat skippers, with Swiftsure, Capricornia and Imagine in various stage of being beached or…
Martin Kell lives on the river downstream from Franklin, and set up his video camera to film the boats coming past on the final day – see
Rob Blackburn is still in the thick of reconciling the bar tabs. The accounts should be out shortly.
Tawe Nunnugah participants shared news, questions and gossip and photos on WhatsApp, Tom Stevens has gathered all this together here, or go straight to the pics here. If you subscribe to the Wooden Boat Association’s newsletter ‘Shavings’ you may already…
The equipment in the Grebes is being made ready for the On the Water program, and one anchor can’t be spotted. Could be a case of domestic blindness, or it may have gone in another boat. Any clues gratefully received:…
We know, we know, it hurts. If you want to make yourself feel even worse by hearing about and seeing what a glorious time the participants had there are various accounts coming in. One is from Martin Chambers and can…
The WhatsApp group has been a great resource for the sharing of information and opinions, but It would be very useful to the LBT Committee for the planning of future events if participants in TN23 (both those on the water…
