The News, Culture and Practice of Sailing woodenboats
in Australia, New Zealand & The South Pacific.

FESTIVALS Mark Chew FESTIVALS Mark Chew

SWS @ AWBF

Mark and Sal will be in Hobart on the waterfront for all four days of the festival. Don’t hesitate to come up and say hello, (especially if you’ve got a good story to tell in future pages of SWS!)

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RESTORATION Mark Chew RESTORATION Mark Chew

DARING 158 years later

After almost 160-years, an ill-fated unique vessel has returned to its final resting place of Mangawhai, NZ. Built from Kauri by a Nova Scotian boat builder in 1863 and used to transport goods along the coast, only eight months later the the 17m schooner was stranded and reported, wrecked.

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