Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Thanks for the invitation; I'll be joining you via the ethernet. Call me parochial, and this is clearly abject nonsense, but nonetheless it seems very odd for a boating festival to be planned for early February when we're freezing our nuts off up here!
 
They may well be freezing in Hobart but that is their summer. No actually it is not so bad I was there this time last year and it was beautiful weather.

Note the festival is in February as it will take from now till then to evict all those racing boats that are still arriving from 3 races Sydney to Hobart Melbourne to Hobart and Launceston to Hobart. They throw all the commercial boats out of the huge dock area and park several hundred yachts from the races. It is right in the city and quite spectacular.

Anyway for any of our antipodean friends (British) if you have a few grand to throw away and can cope with 24 hrs in the jet you would enjoy a few weeks in Tasmania. Or come and visit olewill we are only 6hrs away (by jet)
and currently very warm it must have hit 36 today. just to make you envious olewill
 
I would like you to know that you have every reason to be envious. As you freeze, just think of us enjoying glorious sunshine on a summer's day. If it is too hot, we just wait until the sea breeze comes in about 1.00pm to cool the brow and then bask in the warmth of our reasonable summer compared to other places on the mainland of Australia. You could join us, of course. I have a neighbour who lives six months in the Lake District of the UK and the other six here in Tasmania. His yacht, Emma, is moored year around in Barnes Bay.
Greetings anyway, Sincerely, Peter
 
hmmmm.....that description doesn't help at all. Here we have a grey sky and it's still freezing at 10.30 GMT. Yes, I'm envious but no, I can't stand the idea of 20hrs in a plane, it'll be Spring here soon enough!

rob
 
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