Australian Wooden Boat Festival

The AWBF was just brilliant.

Boats, boats and more boats and things maritime.

Constitution Dock is filled with craft of all description. The public floating pontoons at Elizabeth St Pier I have mentioned previously (closed to visiting boats over the weekend) are filled  to capacity with more floating exhibits.King Pier Marina has all its usual vessels evacuated and is full of wooden vessels. The Princes Wharf sheds are full of static displays and nautical merchants. A shipwrights work shop was established in the vicinity of the Murray St Pier,showing that many skills of yesteryear weren't completely lost yet. Lectures on a variety of topics ran throughout the weekend in the Dechaineaux Theatre over near Victoria Dock.  The tall ships were open for tours and inspection.Some of the smaller vessels ,Lady Nelson, Windeward Bound did daily sailings. Hours of endless entertainment.


One vessel we were definately on the lookout for was the dinghy that had been built in the sunroom of  Sarah's house (Sarah from Live Louder), by her father back in the '60s. Whilst we had been testing the borrowed anchor,Dean and brother in laws had been rowing the dinghy across the Derwent to go on display.

Apart from the rubber tender- it could be a scene from two centuries past

HMB Endeavour and deckboy

The sky indeed may have been overcast above Kings Pier Marina 
when this was taken but the previous days had been sunny.
The crowds were still out in force.