News for TN 25
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.
If you are thinking about joining the 2025 tawe nunnugah Raid or Return Raid, either as a Participant on a boat or as Volunteer in any capacity, please complete an Expression of Interest. The EOI tells us a little about…
Here is a story for our interstate members blanching at the cost of bringing a dinghy across on the Spirit for Tawe Nunnugah. Episode 16 of Small Craft Tasmania describes ‘sailing solo around Tasmania & across Bass Strait in a…
Read all about it here. Couple of sample items: If you want to enter a boat in the Festival expressions of interest open in April; if you want to participate in Sean Koomen’s dinghy build do it soon. And there…
Thank-you for your interest in the tn25 Raid and my apologies for not communicating before now – once I poke my head up organising the Raid can become all consuming, so I try to lie low until we are a…
Many of us are still basking in the glory that was TN23: others have the main sheet in one hand and the tiller in the other and are already asking for directions to the starting line for TN25. Here is…