Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Australian Wooden Boat Festival
Hobart 2013
Website australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au

The Australian Wooden Boat Festival (MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival) is a biennial event held in Hobart Tasmania celebrating wooden boats. AWBF is held concurrently with the Royal Hobart Regatta. The festival welcomes wooden boats of all sizes including wooden canoes, kayaks and dinghies as well as yachts and tall ships.[1]

This festival is a celebration of Australia's maritime heritage, though restricts participation by organizations with interests in modern maritime issues, such as preservation of maritime law and combating poachers in the Australian Whale Sanctuary[2]. Tasmania's rich history of food and wines are also a focal point during this event. It has a major economic benefit to the island state of Tasmania, with accommodation fully booked during the event.

AWBF is only open to boats constructed from timber*, and is widely regarded as the largest event of its type in the southern hemisphere. Indeed, it may be the world's largest boat festival only open to wooden boats.


The First Australian Wooden Boat Festival was held in 1994 (180 boats).

  • 2005 - 40,000 visitors (450 boats)
  • 2011 - 160,000 visitors (550 boats)
  • 2013 - 200,000 visitors (550 boats)
  • 2015 - 200,000+ visitors (550 boats)
  • 2017 - 200,000+ visitors (550 boats)

* An exception is tall ships, as some large tall ships that visit during the festival have steel or iron hulls.

2017 ships

The Sail Training Vessel Tenacious will be a feature vessel at AWBF 2017.

HM Bark Endeavour Replica is a major feature of each festival, though it did not attend in 2017.[3] Other vessels that attend include the Julie Burgess, the last blue-gum fishing ketch,[4] the HMS Lady Nelson replica, Windeward Bound and the James Craig.[5]

See also


References

  1. ↑ http://www.australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au/ Australian Wooden Boat Festival Web site
  2. ↑ "Sea Shepherd Australia - Hobart festival banned Sea Shepherd". www.seashepherd.org.au. Retrieved 2017-07-02.
  3. ↑ Mounster, Bruce (14 January 2015). "Endeavour replica bound for Hobart for Wooden Boat Festival". The Mercury. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Heading set for Hobart". The Advocate. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "FEATURE VESSELS". australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au. Australian Wooden Boat Festival. Retrieved 14 January 2015. 
 7. http://marinedirectory.net article on Largest Boat Festival for Wooden Boats.


Coordinates: 42°53′07″S 147°20′04″E / 42.88528°S 147.33444°E / -42.88528; 147.33444

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