Sister ribs for Monty

This should help to stiffen her up.

This should help to stiffen her up.

Bring your best pastas and other winter fare after 6pm with something to drink and $5 for the kitty. Or come earlier and join the happy crew working on the Tawe Nunnugah boats and get a free meal.

LBT members could justifiably ask why Nancy has been up on blocks for so long. The reason is that we need her to dry right out so that we can do a little work on the keel, and try as…

Read the latest from the Wooden Boat Festival >>here<<. Good to see that they have used a picture of Old Digger, restored by our very own Peter Laidlaw, as their lead graphic.

Or is it the Port Esperance Rowing Club? Their latest newsletter reports that in the dead calm weather we have been experiencing they have taken to the oars in their new Skiff. Hope they don’t wear it our before Tawe…

Read the latest from the Australian Wooden Boat Festival >>here<<. As usual lots of good stories, including one about our very own Tawe Nunnugah, and an invitation to submit an EOI if you wish your boat to be part of…

The Franklin Frosties seem happy to ignore the season and the weather, but we were impressed with this pic of Ryan taking advantage of the current indian summer we are experiencing, beer in hand.

Many of the us remember Ian and Trish visiting us in the second half of last year so that Ian could supervise a dinghy build over at the WBC. We saw them often on Monday evenings. Ian has just won…

Last Monday, after earnest debate, a vote was held and the Assembly decided that meals will be served at 6.30pm instead of 7.00pm for at least the duration of winter. Who said democracy isn’t alive and well in Australia? Have…

The last of the school groups for this season rafted up to see if a Grebe anchor would set well enough to hold all the boats (it did) and whether they could be rowed off (they could – just). Thanks…