In essence you have joined a club, the clubhouse is the Harbour itself. The club was originally founded by the worlds oldest living culture whose conjuring chants sent reverberations flying far across still waters as rattling boomerangs told Ancestral stories on calm nights. Time and tide wait for no man. The Harbour sits and waits implacably, Club members come and go. Stories are the Club constant. The thread began with the First Nations thousands of years ago and continues today. Stories told and retold, memories savoured, accounts with and without absolute meanings, yarns bordering on the absurd; ancestral histories, all perhaps worth saving?

Boats for Sale, films to watch, people to farewell, festivals to visit. News from around the region this February.

Whats going on in the wooden boat world in February?

If the dinner party is getting a little dull, and you are not feeling enriched by drunken theories on how to fix American Politics, then throw this question into the mix…

“What single rule change could you introduce to a mainstream sport to make a radical improvement?” It turns out that even the most socially radical people, can be extreme in their conservatism, when it comes to their favourite sport. Change is evil and only to be considered in desperate times.

This weeks wooden news from World and the Web.

This weeks news from India, Oman, Paris, Inverloch, Bass Strait and Kangaroo Point!

This weeks news from Australia, Africa, France, England and other places!

Starting the new year with a few sailing related stories from around the web and the world.

So far this year, 116,000 individual people have visited the SWS website and they have read 187,000 pages. I point this out not to be self congratulatory, but indicate the strength and size of the community that sees the value in promoting traditional maritime culture.

This week’s sailing stories from around the web and the world.

This week’s sailing stories from around the web and the world.

Some sailing related stories that piqued our interest from around the web and the world this week.

So the solution to managing the perils of social media is to be strict with the inputs. Regular culling of the feed is cathartic. It’s like putting out the bins on a Thursday evening… a bit of a hassle, but it feels good when its done.

This week´s news from around the world and the web

This week’s news and events from around Australia New Zealand and the world.

This weeks news from around the world and its wide web.

This week’s news from around the wooden boat world

This week’s news and questions from around Australia and the world.

We describe sensible, rational people as ‘grounded’. The moorings are dropped, the anchor breaks ground, the pen is left behind: What is it? It’s avoidance. Avoidance of being ‘grounded’. A drift up a creek, a fang around the cans, an ocean crossing, an around the world race, all just ways of evading the sticky mud that clings to earthbound life

Wooden Boat and related news from around the world.