Stories
July 17, 2017
The 2017 Video Is Out Our veteran film maker, Joe Shemesh of Stormfront Film, has emerged from the editing room with the latest highlights video – […]
June 19, 2017
Has anyone seen the “Papua”? Or the “Roma”? If so, we have her steam engine. The Papua dates back to her construction in the early 1880s […]
June 19, 2017
Next time you are muttering darkly about the cost of a new set of sails for your wooden boat, put a happy face on it by […]
June 19, 2017
The results are in from our post-Festival questionnaire, completed by more than 800 festival fans in the weeks following the 2017 MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival. […]
May 23, 2017
Boating on the River Derwent and the waterways of Southern Tasmania offers a unique pleasure that delights every sense and draws boating enthusiasts to Tasmania from […]
May 23, 2017
What an excellent video from our friends at Off Center Harbor (take a breath, you English teachers, that’s how they spell it over there)! For a […]
May 22, 2017
©Phil Jenkins | BALLANTYNE Photography Can we have another Floating Shed, please? A Floating Shed, really? Lots of wonderful ideas are raised at our project manager meetings, […]
May 22, 2017
If you own a wooden boat (or if you used to own a boat and you’re all better now), this little story might ring a bell: […]
May 22, 2017
In the spirit of fact-finding journalism, AWBF General Manager Paul Cullen found himself recently in the northern Portuguese city of Oporto. Rumour had it, wooden boats and […]