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The South Australian Wooden Boat Festival

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Robert Ayliffe

It’s ON, again! Old favourites, new events, and an excellent guest speaker.

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Swallows and Amazons at Hobart

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Kevin Green

For small craft tragics like your correspondent the Tasmanian Wooden Boat Festival was a fascinating four days.

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Charlie Bear

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Geoff Meikle

A BOLGER CARTOPPER built to share

Once upon a time in 1997 I was walking through Bunnings in Parafield South Australia and there amongst the drills, watering cans and extension leads was a woodworking magazine that caught my eye. On the front cover was a sub-­heading ‘How to build your own 10ft dinghy.’ My interest was suitably aroused by the potential of these words so I grabbed the magazine and proceeded to ponder. “Would such a thing really be possible?”

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