PETREL history, Hesse for sale, more MALFADA, a lobster launch and much more.

A Reimers restoration, Barangaroo Handover, Vertue News, SA stories and A new Q

A free boat, a Garden back to auction, whale speak, sails for the Alma, East African climate change and up and down three times.

This week…Wingnut, AWBF entries, Veterans Race, Peixinho, and lots more.

This week…Ocean Cruises, Command structures, Caribbean Racing, Burgess in Bass Strait and much more.

PETREL continues apace, the Japanese like Inverloch, to Museum or not, and a few other bits and pieces from around the world and the web.

Whales, Wanderers, Gretel, Dragons, Scallops and Gaffers. Now that’s a nice cross section of our world in the news this week!

The Calendar, The Centenarian, More MJOJO, mining (or not), Hoddle’s Grid and much more

Near Sinkings, saved habitats, boxes ticked and books worth reading. All in this week’s news page.

The biggest news page yet, with boats for sale, boats for free, events, opinions and awards from around the wooden boat world.

Autumnal news from around the wooden boat world.

Wrapping up February with lost crafts, Gippsland craft, Norwegian know how, and Trans-Tasman cancellation.

Statistics will show that this article will get very few “reads” unless I substitute the heading with the words “FREE BOAT!” And fair enough, because people don’t come to SWS for a dose of political and social reality. But there are plenty of small things we can do in our daily lives to try to reduce the frequency of these ongoing tragedies.

Silk, Strange, Volunteer, Charm, Cyprus. These and lots more in this week’s news

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!