If you are bringing your own wooden boat for the tn25 Raid or Return Raid and want to moor it with our fleet of small Raid boats in Watermans Dock during the Australian Wooden Boat Festival you must submit an…
We are being asked what people need to bring with them on the Raid. Later we will send out more details but for now it may help if we give a short summary of the domestic arrangements. We provide everything…
Read all about it <<here>>. Of particular import to those who want a boat in the Festival is that registrations close SOON. Register <<here>>.
Agenda for the Annual General Meeting of the Living Boat Trust Inc, 2024 6:00 pm 21st Sept, 3337 Huon Hwy, Franklin TAS 7113 (We plan to follow the meeting with a BBQ)
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…
