Movies at the Palais 16th Feb

This coming Sunday gather after 6.00pm to see ‘Gravity’. See details on the flyer below.
This coming Sunday gather after 6.00pm to see ‘Gravity’. See details on the flyer below.
The Grebes lined up in Sandy Bay ready to be towed home. It is a long way from the heaving mass of humanity of the Festival on Saturday and Sunday. Judging from the beating some of the oars have taken…
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!
With the emphasis on high. Viking has been ‘dry’ on the verandah before, but we were crawling around on the ground trying to spot the leaks. The Tuesday group have made sure inspection below the water line will be much…
Great to see David Pittaway’s Olga out of the shed and on the water. It has been a ten year project – see >>this post<< about Olga from November 2015.
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…