Festival acclaim
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival has won Bronze in the Major Festivals and Events category at the 2025 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards.
Tourism accolade
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival, the biennial event in Hobart celebrating wooden boats of all kinds, has won Gold and the People’s Choice Awards at this year’s Tasmanian Tourism Awards.
Pretty in pink
Mermaid, the Derwent Class yacht undergoing restoration at Tasmanian Shipwrights & Co, will soon take her place among the D-Class fleet – standing out from the crowd with her hot pink hull.
Wooden wonders
Get set for the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, 10 to 13 February 2023 on Hobart’s waterfront.
Classic celebration
The next edition of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival will run 10 to 13 February 2023.
Access all areas
The Australian Wooden Boat Festival team has developed another compact event to help alleviate the ‘withdrawal symptoms’ suffered by many of those who missed the Covid-cancelled biennial festival this year.