Australian Wooden Boat Festival
- Australian Wooden Boat Festival
The Austalian Wooden Boat Festival is a bi-annual event held in Hobart celebrating wooden boats. It is held concurrently with the Royal Hobart Regatta. The festival celebrates wooden boats of all sizes including wooden canoes, kayaks and dinghys as well as yachts and tall ships.
* The festival is held every 2 years with the last being held 9-12 February 2007.
* First festival held in 1994 (180 boats).
* 2005 - 40000 visitors (450 boats)
* Australian Government funding for the event is $300,000AU (as at 14/June/2007) [http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=21175]
* Estimated cost of the festival $750,000AU (as at 14/June/2007)Fact|date=July 2007 [http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/14/1951809.htm]
External links
* [http://www.australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au/ Australian Wooden Boat Festival Web site]
* [http://www.australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au/html/history.html Direct link to historical summary of event]
ee also
* [http://www.woodenboatfestival.com.au/ South Australian Wooden Boat and Music Festival]
*Wooden boat festivals
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