Category Tawe Nunnugah

Read all about it <<here>>. Of particular import to those who want a boat in the Festival is that registrations close SOON. Register <<here>>.

A recent item in Small Craft Advisor alerted us to the online test you can do to make this assessment. In a recent post they make the point that ‘small’ does not necessarily mean unsafe. They cite the example of…

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.