sail amsterdam

September 23, 2016

At the Far Side of the World

At the Far Side of the World …there’s work afoot.  In the Royal Kingdom of the Netherlands, talk of the MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival in […]
July 15, 2016

Game On For Dutch Boat Project

The theme of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in 2017 is Tasmania’s long Dutch history, starting with the visit of navigator and explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman some […]
May 13, 2016

Tall Ships in the West

The story of the early Dutch explorers and their ships, soon to be a major theme of the 2017 Australian Wooden Boat Festival, gets started this […]
December 10, 2015

Tall Ships – Amsterdam Puts on a Show

In the European summer, our intrepid Media Manager, Daryl Peebles and his partner Elsje visited Amsterdam for the largest gathering of tall ships on the planet, […]
August 28, 2015

AWBF General Manager’s Log – September 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If we are all a little square-eyed and blunt-fingered around here, it’s because there’s been an awful lot of keyboard time logged at the AWBF just […]
August 19, 2015

Sail Amsterdam

This has to be the Grandaddy of all maritime festivals:  Sail Amsterdam, and AWBF was there with our favourite media wizard, Daryl Peebles and partner Elsje Steen, joining the festivities […]