The Raid is back

Time to celebrate another hugely successful Tawe Nunnagah. Mind you the scene that greeted late arrivals on Friday evening would make you wonder why ever left Franklin.
News for TN 25

Time to celebrate another hugely successful Tawe Nunnagah. Mind you the scene that greeted late arrivals on Friday evening would make you wonder why ever left Franklin.

Those who have browsed Matt’s Youtube channel Small Craft Tasmania know what a brilliant job he does of making short videos trialing small boats and exploring Tasmanian inshore waters. He was on the Raid (with John Welsford), and he has…

We have our own lost and found box at the LBT, and during the Raid Deb van Velsen has kept a track of all those odd socks and wayward charging cables for us. We can’t beat this story from Huon…

We were privileged to have the boat designer John Welsford along for the Raid. There were about half a dozen boats of his design which participated giving an indication of his popularity and importance in the small boat cruising community.…

There were about 9 support vehicles for TN25, which needed nine drivers and lots of packing and unpacking. Emma was part of the land crew who did a terrific job managing all this, and she was featured in the Huon…

Andy Gaul came out to do an interview for the breakfast show about the Raid with Colin and Beth at the Rokeby camp. Listen to it >>here<<.

We tried to get a good photo at Waterman’s Dock but reckon Brett McDermott did a better job with his sketch pad. Thanks Brett!

A good following breeze helped to make this year’s Parade interesting, a contrast to 2019 when the wind was even stronger and much more on the nose. Two LBT boats featured in the ‘Foul Bottoms’ cartoon for ‘Afloat’ magazine of…

If you are doing the Return Raid and weren’t on the 10-day tn25 you may be wondering what’s going on and why I’ve gone quiet over the past two weeks. Well, we’ve been a little distracted with tn25 but now…
For those of us who aren’t on the Return Raid and are stuck ashore, Monday night is an opportunity to get together and console ourselves. As usual it is bring a dish, and it should be Mediterranean. Also $5 for…