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
- Terms and Conditions of Participation
- Information Exchange – a tool to ask for or offer assistance to/from other participants
- Information Exchange Form – click here to add to the Information Exchange
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Why aren’t I getting tn updates by email?
- Who is responsible for registering Raid boats for the AWBF?
- Can I bring a pet on the Raid?
- How do I join the Raid?
- How do I Volunteer to help the Raid?
- What sort of boat is suitable for the Raid?
- What is a typical Raid day like?
- Do I have to be super fit to do the Raid?
- What gear should I bring?
- What transport is available?
- What accommodation/camping is available in Franklin?
- What boat safety equipment must I carry?
Latest News
News Posts will be sent to everyone on the tn25 mailing list. If you miss a post, find it here.
- tn25 – The Raid is BYO drinks
In a departure from previous years tn25, RR25 and the Welcome Dinner in Franklin will all be ‘Facilitated BYO’. Facilitated?? – If you don’t have your own transport, we will help you get to a bottleshop before departure and will organise runs to re-stock along the way. Once again Rob and Judy have kindly offered… Read more: tn25 – The Raid is BYO drinks - tn25 – Welcome Dinner in Franklin
There’s been some chat on the Whatapp group about the Welcome Dinner at the Watersheds in Franklin (just south of the LBT) on Tuesday, 28 January, gathering at 6.30pm for 7pm. To clarify, when you booked your spot as a Raid Participant your payment included the Welcome Dinner (unless you claimed the $40 discount because… Read more: tn25 – Welcome Dinner in Franklin - tn25 – End of Raid Event at Hope & Anchor
The mayhem of the Parade of Sails and the milling crowds at the largest wooden boat festival in the Southern Hemisphere can be a bit of a shock after the peace and tranquillity of the Raid. To help you ease back into normal life we’ve organised a tn25 Welcome to Hobart event upstairs at the… Read more: tn25 – End of Raid Event at Hope & Anchor - Need to borrow tents and gear for TN25
Remember that two person tent that you bought in a fit enthusiasm years ago which is now languishing at the back of a cupboard? No? Well let us remind you. You can justify that purchase by sharing the love – let one of the land crew for tn25 borrow it. Fill in the form >>here<<. - Down at the slipyard
It is not only at the LBT that it is all action with last minute preparation of boats for Tawe Nunnugah – the keel boats are also getting hauled out wherever they can find a slip. Brett Doubleday is hard at work on ‘Speck’, next to Richard Forster’s ‘Seastar’ which is having a leak attended… Read more: Down at the slipyard - tn25 – plan for a capsize
We don’t wish to alarm you but every year we have at least one boat capsize during the Raid. Chances are it won’t be you – but it might be. You should prepare yourself, your crew and the boat just in case. Everything you might need after a capsize should be tied in, otherwise it… Read more: tn25 – plan for a capsize - tn25 – Where’s the goat? Where’s the cabbage?
Getting 120 people to the start of the Raid at Recherche Bay and returning all vehicles and trailers not needed for camp support to Franklin is a logistics juggling act but always works out if everyone works together. A few simple rules help it happen: 1) No vehicle should leave Franklin or Recherche with empty… Read more: tn25 – Where’s the goat? Where’s the cabbage? - tn25 – Introducing the Raid Doctor
Dr Anne Jaumees has once again very kindly offered to provide medical support to the Raid as the Raid Doctor. As in previous years, Anne will be participating in the Raid on one of the whaleboats and is volunteering her doctoring services. In the Expression of Interest we asked whether you had any medical conditions… Read more: tn25 – Introducing the Raid Doctor - tn25 – Safety Management Plans and Risk Register
The Living Boat Trust has been organising small boat expeditions since before the first tawe nunnugah Raid in 2007. Over the years we have developed procedures for reducing the risks of voyaging in small vessels in remote locations. Of course, the safety procedures are of little value unless everyone involved is familiar with them. Please… Read more: tn25 – Safety Management Plans and Risk Register - Abel Tasman is in the water!
After months, and a lot of work, in the Shed, we took advantage of having a large crew of boat lifters on Monday night to get the scout boat out the door and into the reeds where she can take up. Pic below shows that crew taking a breather – they needed it! Abel Tasman… Read more: Abel Tasman is in the water! - tn25 – what stuff should I bring?
If you’ve done the Raid before, or even read the FAQs, you’ll know all this – but it bears repeating because I’m still being asked whether we supply tents (we don’t). You NEED to bring a tent, sleeping gear (bag, mat, pillow), spare clothes, toiletries, water bottle and lunch box (the world already has enough… Read more: tn25 – what stuff should I bring? - tn25 – Navigation, charts and chart plotters
The Raid is essentially a cruise in company but that doesn’t mean you should rely on everyone else to know where you are, where you are going and what not to run into on the way. If you are bringing your own Raid boat you should have chart information covering the entire route but a… Read more: tn25 – Navigation, charts and chart plotters - Down at the Shed
It may only have been the second day of 2025 but Tuesday was as busy as it ever is, particularly preparing for Tawe Nunnugah. Lots of paint was being spread around, flotation cut and bagged, the carpentry tools out, and the sludge gun doing sterling service bogging up any suspicious looking holes and crevices. Few… Read more: Down at the Shed - Return Raid road trip
This is route that the catering and support crews will be taking, from the Festival to Franklin over 5 days (including one rest day). Refer to the >>Raid Map<< for an overview. The times, according to Google, are as follows. Given the nature of the vehicles we will be using it would be sensible to… Read more: Return Raid road trip - For those who had trouble joining the TN25 WhatsApp groups
The instructions that were distributed are not working for everybody. If you are having problems you could try searching for TN25 Tawe Nunnagah within WhatsApp, or alternatively install WhatsApp and set yourself up on your phone (if you haven’t already done so), then send a text message to Tom Stevens on 04189 88794 in Australia,… Read more: For those who had trouble joining the TN25 WhatsApp groups - Wanting to borrow: camping equipment
It is the countdown to Tawe Nunnugah, and all those details that have been put off whilst we deal with the big issues now have to be retrieved from under the carpet. One of these details is providing somewhere to sleep for our land based volunteers. We are chasing SMALL TENTS, SLEEPING BAGS an SLEEPING… Read more: Wanting to borrow: camping equipment - For those driving TN25
That would be the catering and support crews. Here is a Google Map showing what is involved. Cross reference to the >>voyage map<< for the big picture. And here are the times between destinations, according to Google. Moss Glen to Southport: 30 minutesSouthport to Dover: 20 minutesDover to Simpsons Point: 2 hours 20 minutes (not… Read more: For those driving TN25 - tn25 – join the tn25 Whatsapp group
In the past we have found Whatsapp to be a great tool for quickly sending out information and for sharing photos during the Raid. Tom Stevens has created a tn25 Whatsapp group and sent a link for joining. The link only works if you click on the link using a device (phone??) that has the… Read more: tn25 – join the tn25 Whatsapp group - tn25 – please bring your life jacket
The LBT does not have enough life jackets for everyone on the Raid – if you have one, please bring it. From 1 January 2021, all life jackets in Tasmania on recreational boats must be approved to AS4758 and for the Raid we are required to use Level 100 or greater, approved for Sheltered and… Read more: tn25 – please bring your life jacket - Camp Support for Tawe NunnugahWe are looking for extra land support crew for TN25, both the ‘Long’ Raid (29th Jan – 7th Feb) and the Return Raid (10th-14th Feb). For those of us who have participated in the past we know that it is hard work but also, for many people, a unique opportunity. How else do you travel… Read more: Camp Support for Tawe Nunnugah
- tn25 – Don’t forget the Info Exchange
The tn Raid organisers don’t have all the answers – so the tn25 Info Exchange has been set up to enable participants to help each other. Do you have questions that only experience can answer? Do you have information you want to share? Do you need assistance with anything to do with the Raid? Can… Read more: tn25 – Don’t forget the Info Exchange - tn25 – VHF radios
All boats in the Raid fleet must carry a VHF radio – and if you are bringing your own boat, you will need to provide your own radio. Capsize is always possible on the smaller raid-boats so the radio should be waterproof and carried on the body at all times when on the water, and… Read more: tn25 – VHF radios - tn25 – what boat is that?
Photo-ID – you may not have needed to show it for a while, but we do want to see your boat’s photo-ID. If you are bringing a vessel on the Raid, whether it’s a sailing or rowing Raid boat, an accompanying yacht or a fast response safety boat, please send us a photograph of it… Read more: tn25 – what boat is that? - tn25 – Information up-dates
Its nearly December and you know what that means….less than 60 days to the start of the Raid…and a few distractions between now and then. Over the next few weeks we will use the tn25 Mailing List to send out a flurry of information up-dates covering things we would like you to know before the… Read more: tn25 – Information up-dates - 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.
