With a fun and rewarding on-water and social program, you won't want to be anywhere else that weekend!

Whether you are custodian of a much loved family dinghy, have just finished building your first kayak, are restoring a traditional Tassie cray boat, or are mad for sailing among other timber boats, this is your weekend to head down to the beautiful D'Entrecasteaux Channel on, or with, your wooden boat.

The Wooden Boat Guild of Tasmania and the Kettering Yacht Club are proud to be once again hosting the Kettering Wooden Boat Rally. It is with great pride that both organisations are able to come together from the 11-13th February for the 7th Rally!

The rally will kick off with an "all-in" (including non-wooden boats) twilight race from 6pm on Friday the 11th. This will be followed by a sausage sizzle back at the KYC.

Both Saturday and Sunday will see small craft on-water events in the morning, followed by sailing events at 1.30pm. All of these events will be conducted in the Channel close to Kettering.

Running alongside the Rally, as always, will be the Derwent Class World Championships.

There will be plenty of opportunities for 'boat perving' and chewing the fat with other wooden boat tragics. Each night there will be get togethers at the KYC, with food vans and the bar open. The Rally will conclude on the Sunday night with an awards and trophy presentation.

Both the Oyster Cove and Southaven Marinas will make berths available where possible for visiting boats and there is plenty of space around the KYC for trailered vessels.

Don't hesitate to enter what will be a wonderful weekend of wooden boats out on the water and on-shore.

Nb. Keel boats and power boats will need to be third party insured and carry public liability insurance to the value of $5 million to be eligible to enter.

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