The Living Boat Trust - 'Where the wooden boat festival never ends'
The latest, at the shed and on the water
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Forecast versus actualOn Monday a participant in Tawe Nunnugah was proceeding to Recherche Bay on the basis of wind forecasts such as that shown in the blue line below - reasonably mild southerly ...
Posted by Posts Editor
Monday dinner Jan 25: BYOAs usual at the end of the month - an opportunity for culinary creativity. Big dinner for Tawe Nunnugah participants (and others who want to come) on Tuesday night.
Posted Jan 24, 2021, 1:11 PM by Posts Editor
Dover Discovery in JanuaryJane Johnson writes:Living Boat Trust members traveled down to Dover to explore Port Esperance on board the St Ayles Skiff Freyja, which is on loan to the Dover community ...
Posted Jan 24, 2021, 1:00 PM by Posts Editor
LBT First Aid Kits missingFour First Aid Kits belonging to the LBT have gone missing - one larger kit in a blue carry case, one medium kit in a white carry bag and two marine ...
Posted Jan 23, 2021, 5:56 PM by Martin Riddle
Planned Program for Franklin Regatta, February 14The Franklin St Ayles Skiff Regatta/ Living Boat Trust Open Day. Program 2021. Sunday February 14. Start times may change, crews to be ready 15 mins before. 9am Open Women ...
Posted Jan 23, 2021, 12:51 PM by Posts Editor
tn21 Welcome Dinner - Members InvitedThe tn21 Raid Welcome Dinner will be held at the LBT Shed at 6.30pm for 7.00pm on Tuesday 26 January 2021. All LBT members and friends are invited ...
Posted Jan 20, 2021, 11:37 PM by Martin Riddle
Getting ready to shift CapricorniaCapricornia has a wee bit of weight in her, and getting her lifted so that she can go on the trailer requires a mighty lot of people, or something mechanical ...
Posted Jan 19, 2021, 3:04 AM by Posts Editor
Testing and taggingOne of the many jobs that must be done regularly in the shed is to check all the electrical equipment. Tom Stevens has done it a couple of times now ...
Posted Jan 19, 2021, 2:57 AM by Posts Editor
Across the dutchMaybe for we Tasmanians it is the double dutch. A recent post from Off Center Harbor reminded us that the Kiwis have a very vibrant wooden boat scene. It pointed ...
Posted Jan 17, 2021, 1:44 PM by Posts Editor
Funnies at Frank's February 12thDavid Moore writes:
'The headline act is Chris Franklin, a true Aussie legend, supported by Ben Richardson and Brittany Szlezak. Dinner is available at the venue on the night as ...
Posted Jan 12, 2021, 12:26 AM by Posts Editor
Augusta HospitalityJane Johnson writes:'Shane and Jane Johnson, joined Augusta
(W.A.) crew to explore the Hardy's Inlet near the Blackwood River. The
Augusta skiffs, after a much-celebrated launch ...
Posted Jan 10, 2021, 1:49 PM by Posts Editor
BoatryIt's a new category of literature discovered by Gary McDonald. Sample from John Simlett below.
Posted Jan 10, 2021, 1:39 PM by Posts Editor
Hazards of the seaGary McDonald spotted this one.
Posted Jan 10, 2021, 1:34 PM by Posts Editor
Putting Louie through her pacesThe sea breeze has been up in the afternoon, and John Pollard with crew Piet and Endra took advantage to see how 'Louie' performed in the tight confines of the ...
Posted Jan 10, 2021, 1:28 PM by Posts Editor
LBT tn21 Raid – can you help?The tawe nunnugah Raid is the LBT’s flagship event. In a normal year it
involves people from right across the membership and brings people from
interstate and overseas. But ...
Posted Jan 7, 2021, 3:13 AM by Martin Riddle
Nordic clinker boatsGarry MacDonald pointed us to this really nice video on the topic: https://vimeo.com/387955223/1a4d1d51eb
Posted Jan 3, 2021, 2:49 AM by Posts Editor
AWBF lifejackets testedThe life jackets on 'permanent' loan from the Wooden Boat Festival were trialed by some volunteer crash test dummies on a recent warm afternoon, and we can report that there ...
Posted Jan 3, 2021, 1:15 PM by Posts Editor
January committee meeting January 7thAgenda being prepared at https://tinyurl.com/y9okvpnw, draft minutes from the December meeting are at https://tinyurl.com/yba9e2wm.
Posted Jan 3, 2021, 12:57 AM by Posts Editor
Monday 4th: start of LBT yearYes, dinner is on, and KATE IS BACK COOKING! Yay! And if you need to work up an appetite come and join the work crew from 3pm on. Capricornia is ...
Posted Jan 2, 2021, 1:07 PM by Richard Forster
Palais movie night Sunday 3rd JanuarySynopsis: 'In a remote Icelandic town, an off duty police chief begins to suspect a
local man for having had an affair with his wife, who recently died in a ...
Posted Dec 27, 2020, 4:06 AM by Posts Editor
Were these the guilty party?Monty has had a slow leak for some time. When she was hauled out and scraped unfilled nail holes, some shown in the pic below, were revealed. We will see ...
Posted Dec 22, 2020, 3:18 AM by Posts Editor
If you need an anchor ...Look in the anchor locker! The bench at the end of the verandah is multi-purpose.
Posted Dec 22, 2020, 3:02 AM by Posts Editor
Looking Fancy on board NancyJane Johnson writes: 'The botanical St Ayles Skiff tours wound up with a trip back in time – on board the 1917 cruiser “Nancy”. It was time to celebrate previous exploratory ...
Posted Dec 20, 2020, 2:01 PM by Posts Editor
Christmas BreakThe LBT Shed will be available to members for rowing, sailing etc over the Christmas period on an informal basis. The Tuesday Group will be taking some well earned time ...
Posted Dec 20, 2020, 1:39 PM by Posts Editor
Monday afternoon workathonFor the past couple of months a dedicated team has been working on our boats on Monday afternoon to prepare them for the summer sailing season. Capricornia in particular has ...
Posted Dec 18, 2020, 12:45 PM by Posts Editor
