Category Expeditions

Gavin is sorting out the navigation lights on Shannon.

Small Craft Advisor has a nice article about how steady improvements in solar technology over the last decade has made this technology much more practical for use in small boats. Read all about it here. If this really takes off…

A recent video in the Australian Wooden Boat Festival’s ‘Folks and Boats’ series features Saul Davidson talking about the restoration of his Hartley 16. Watch it here. For those who haven’t participated in Tawe Nunnugah and don’t know Saul, he…

There is a nice article in Southern Wooden Boat Sailing about the sail training ship ‘South Passage’. It is by her skipper Phil Woodgate, who was in charge on Capricornia for the last Tawe Nunnugah. Read it here.

In response to our recent post about the Swedish Post Race (‘The Swedish Tawe Nunnugah?‘) we have received this very alluring description of ‘Small boating in a small part of the Finish Coast’ from Mark Pearse. Thanks Mark! I am…

Gary McDonald is entertaining himself these cold Tasmanian winter days by browsing YouTube, and came up with this delightful video of the ‘Mail boat Race across the Aland (Baltic) Sea’. Apparently in the old days the job of carrying the…

Steve Wilson sent this picture of the scout boat Abel Tasman undercoated and ready for painting.

For previous Tawe Nunnugahs we set up an online system to assist participants who wanted to share transport, accommodation, equipment, information etc. See an example from 2023 here. We are doing it all again – see this webpage which can…

If you want to enter your boat in the Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2025 now is the time to fill out the initial form <<here>>.

See <<this interview>> with Festival director Paul Stephanus conducted by Southern Wooden Boat Sailing.