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August 28, 2018
The MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival is a community event, presented completely free to the general public. We are dedicated to promoting the culture and heritage […]
July 16, 2018
Image: Self-Portrait with Aurora Australis by Doug Thost Did you know that the early history of exploration in Antarctica was dependent on wooden boats? Long […]
July 16, 2018
Down at Dave Golding’s sawmill on the Huon River, we’ve seen the first steps taken to transform reclaimed timber from the highland lakes of Tasmania transformed […]
July 16, 2018
A Herreshoff-designed 53-foot ketch built by Canadian tuna fisherman Douglas Baron in 1974 in Sidney, Vancouver, British Columbia will be featured at the 2019 MyState Australian […]
July 16, 2018
It is an exciting exercise for each MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival – choosing the design for the festival poster. The accumulated collection of festival posters […]
July 8, 2018
Now, here’s a great lounge room game you can play when it’s cold and raining and definitely not sailing weather outside. Check out Off Center Harbor’s […]
May 27, 2018
There’s nothing like a good photograph to tell a story and over the years, there’s been many a story to come out of the MyState Australian […]
May 27, 2018
Thinking of Sailing to Tasmania for AWBF 2019? With about six months to go before the next festival, we have started receiving enquiries from mainland boat […]