tn25 Welcome Dinner, Franklin – Tuesday 28 January 2025
tn25 Raid, Recherche Bay to Hobart – 29 Jan to 7 February 2025
Australian Wooden Boat Festival, Constitution Docks, Hobart – 7-10 February 2025
RR25 Return Raid, Hobart to Franklin – 10-14 February 2025
For further information about tn25 contact info@tawe-nunnugah.org
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Information
How to sign-up for the Raid – We use Forms to get information from you. Links (in blue) will be added when each form is available
- Step 1 – Join the mailing list to receive up-dates as we post them. The mailing list form is open.
- Step 2 – Complete an Expression of Interest (EOI). In the EOI we ask you to tell us about your boating experience, any special needs (dietary etc) and what you want to do on the Raid (e.g. use own boat, crew on LBT boat, sail, row, Camp Support volunteer etc).
- Step 3 – Book using our on-line booking system. We do not post the link to the booking system on our web-site. After we receive and have reviewed your EOI we will send an email with a link to the booking site. This is to ensure we can meet your needs for the Raid and, if bringing your own boat, whether it is suitable.
- Step 4 – Pay the participation fee. The booking system will generate an invoice with instructions on how to pay.
Information for Participants
- Information Exchange – a tool to ask for or offer assistance to/from other participants
Latest News
News Posts will be sent to everyone on the tn25 mailing list. If you miss a post, find it here.
- tn25 – Route Maps posted
We have posted Route maps for both tn25 and RR25 on the tawe nunnugah tn25 web-site (https://livingboattrust.org.au/tawe-nunnugah-2025/). Printable versions of the routes maps are available here (tn25) and here (RR25). Please note that the route includes two nights at each of Simpsons Point and Quarantine Bay. This means that later in the Raid, when we’re… Read more: tn25 – Route Maps posted - tn25 – AWBF applications close very soon
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 Expression of Interest to the AWBF now. The AWBF has extended the application period for… Read more: tn25 – AWBF applications close very soon - tn25 – what to bring for camp
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 needed to have comfortable meals, including marquees, tables, chairs, crockery and cutlery and, most important… Read more: tn25 – what to bring for camp - AWBF August newletter
Read all about it <<here>>. Of particular import to those who want a boat in the Festival is that registrations close SOON. Register <<here>>. - Living Boat Trust AGM 2024 Sept 21
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) - How seaworthy is your small boat?
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 a small boat grounded in a tricky river entrance which was freed simply by hopping… Read more: How seaworthy is your small boat? - Getting the boats ready for Tawe Nunnagah
Gavin is sorting out the navigation lights on Shannon. - Solar for ‘Raid’ boats?
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 one of the things we will have to get used to is a new boat… Read more: Solar for ‘Raid’ boats? - A familiar face (and a familiar boat)
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 has been one of our intrepid safety boat operators on a number of Raids. - South Passage
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. - Boating in Finland
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 lucky enough to have spent time in Finland, & even luckier as that includes quite… Read more: Boating in Finland - The Swedish Tawe Nunnugah?
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 mail was contracted out to small farmers in small boats – rowing and sailing, and… Read more: The Swedish Tawe Nunnugah? - Getting the boats ready for TN25
Steve Wilson sent this picture of the scout boat Abel Tasman undercoated and ready for painting. - Information Exchange
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 be navigated to from the TN25 homepage. To participate simply fill in the form with… Read more: Information Exchange - Expressions of Interest for Festival now open
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>>. - Looking forward to the Wooden Boat Festival
See <<this interview>> with Festival director Paul Stephanus conducted by Southern Wooden Boat Sailing. - Expression of Interest form for tn25 now open
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 your boating experience, any special needs (dietary etc) and what you want to do on… Read more: Expression of Interest form for tn25 now open - TN25 ferry costs too much? Sail here
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 13′ open dinghy‘. Thanks to Lorrie Harrison for pointing out this one to us. - Newsletter from the Australian Wooden Boat Festival
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 is lots more. - Thank-you for joining the tawe nunnugah Mailing List
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 year out. But here we are with eleven months to go and planning for the… Read more: Thank-you for joining the tawe nunnugah Mailing List - Tawe Nunnugah 2025 is coming
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 some assistance for those in the latter category.
Maps, Videos etc
This is the planned itinerary but it could change at short notice if we have bad weather. Printable versions: tn25 here and RR25 here.
On tn25 two nights are scheduled for Simpsons and Quarantine – if we need to sit out bad weather we may use these ‘spare nights’ earlier in the Raid. This would change when we arrive at the later sites.
On RR25 we have two nights scheduled for Charlottes Cove. If we need to sit out bad weather we may use the ‘spare night’ earlier in the Raid. This would change when we arrive at the later sites.
