Tom Stevens, who skippered the safety mothership Seaire on tn23, can’t wait until 2025 and tn25 for another expedition. He writes: As mentioned at recent LBT dinners I am looking to take Seaire for a 2 week summer outing up…
Dave Paget recommends the Axel Stenross Maritime Museum at Port Lincoln. As we recall, Dave was part of the team which won the Australian Bay Raider Championship conducted at Simpson’s Point last February. He was aboard Swiftsure for the Raid,…
Dale Simonson writes: I’m sorry it’s taken so long, I had most of this done ages ago and then stalled and life generally took over…but I’ve now completed a description of my experience as a participant in the tn23. I’m…
One of the smallest boats in the TN 23 fleet was ‘Derry’, sailed by Garry Hardy. We have already seen his video, which painted a very vivid picture of his Raid, although as he said he ‘was too busy hanging…
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:…