The Melbourne Wooden Boat Festival will be held in Victoria Harbour, Docklands, in February 2010

The event will bring together all of the major wooden boat and classic yacht groups in and around Melbourne creating an exciting opportunity for wooden boat enthusiasts to participate and enjoy. Designed to promote wooden boat heritage and connect a broader public with the spirit of timber boating the event includes both on water and on piazza displays. Quick and Dirty competition, Model sailing and racing boats, Marine trade displays, Strolling Shanty musicians, In harbour sailing, working boats displays. Boat maintenance master classes How to maintain your hull, engine, rig, sail, paint. What is required for an annual safety inspection and information on the suitability of marine timbers. Shipwright Conference Gathering the shipwrights of Victoria in one space to meet and share their extraordinary skills, knowledge and history.

Event Supporters •Blunts Boatyard •City of Melbourne •Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Assoc •Classic Yacht Association •Couta Boat Association •Docklands Yacht Club •H28 Association •Maritime Heritage Association of Victoria •Mordialloc Boating and Angling Club •Mordialloc Motor Yacht Club •Sail and Adventure Ltd - Alma Doepel •Sandringham Yacht Club •Sorrento Sailing Couta Boat Club •Tall Ships Victoria •Tumlaren Association •Victoria University, The School of Construction Industries •Wooden Boat Association •Wooden Boat Centre •and many other groups. Full details