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Wooden Boat Festival 2019

Friday 8 February to Monday 11 February.
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Location: Sullivans Cove from Hunter St to Princes Wharf. Harbour is suited to wooden boats. They both embellish each other.
 
Opened with a parade of sail. Visiting and local boats sailed up the Derwent. Over 500 boats in Wooden Boat Festival. Tall ships, sailboats, working boats.  Every boat was unique. Had an unique name, personality, sails, crew and history. 
 
The USA was the featured nation.
Many of the boats were from America. Most came in a container.
 
On land there were displays of becalmed boats. Get a closer look.
 
You could wander and converse with experts. The expert would be standing or sitting next to or in their wooden boat. The expert would be the owner, builder, sailor or a craftsperson. The experts were all full of knowledge that they wanted to share with you.
 
Nautical films.
 
Quick ‘n’ Dirty race. Children designed, built and decorated cane and canvas boats. They then raced them around a few buoys. It was colourful chaos complete with pirates throwing water on the contestants and a large crowd on the wharves.
 
Photographic competition. Other art. Paintings and drawing of boats.
 
Display of model boats and ships-in-bottles.
 
Not just for boat lovers. Also natural timber work and craftwork steaming and bending timber and weaving crayfish pots. Displays and experts full of wood working information.
 
Maritime heritage displays. Stories telling of how conquering and befriending the sea led to our present global communities.
 
Tasmania’s food and drinks. Live music.
 
Wooden boat design, sail-making, rigging. Sails created and made Hobart. Fishing industry display.
 
People to help people plan their next trip. Around the world or the harbour.
 
Maritime marketplace in Princes Wharf 1. Stalls selling everything booklovers need for their current or next boat.
 

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  • Home
  • Community
    • Hadley's Hotel
    • Set in bronze
    • Wooden Boat Festival 2019
    • What do you think of Hobart?
    • Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
    • The Mountain
  • Explore
    • History >
      • Tasmanian Timeline
      • Early Tasmania
      • David Collins
      • Lachlan Macquarie
      • Robert Knopwood
      • Mid Nineteenth Century
      • John Franklin
      • Lady Jane Franklin
      • Late Nineteenth Century
      • 20th Century
      • Convicts
      • Tasmania’s aborigines
      • TT Flynn
      • Charles Darwin visits Hobart
    • Galleries >
      • Places >
        • Constitution Dock
        • Elizabeth St Mall
        • Elizabeth St Pier
        • Franklin Square
        • Hobart GPO
        • Hobart Town Hall
        • Parliament House
        • RHH
        • Salamanca Place
        • St David's Cathedral
        • St David's Park
        • Theatre Royal
        • Victoria Dock
        • Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
        • Kunanyi / Mt Wellington
      • Street art >
        • Street art 1
        • street art 2
        • Street art 3
        • Street art 4
      • Streets >
        • Argyle Street
        • Barrack Street
        • Brisbane Street
        • Bathurst Street
        • Brooker Highway
        • Campbell Street
        • Collins Street
        • Davey Street
        • Elizabeth Street
        • Goulburn Street
        • Harrington Street
        • Hunter Street
        • Liverpool Street
        • Macquarie Street
        • Murray Street
  • about this website
    • about another website
    • Acknowledgement
    • Contact
  • Blog
  • Walking Tours
    • Dave's Walking Tour
    • The Tench Walking Tour
    • Botanical Gardens Circuit
    • ​Alfred’s feeling religious walk
    • Battery Point Sculpture Trail
    • Lachlan gets to the point
    • Street art: Luffy paints the town