Task Force 72 (model boat builders)

The name derives from the military term for a group of warships operating to a common purpose, a task force, and the scale of the ship models being built (1:72).

The Association holds an annual regatta each year, normally at Wentworth Falls Lake, located in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

Task Force 72 hopes that the Association's membership in other countries will grow to the point where they are large enough to support their own national regattas.

In fact the joint winners of the Wentworth Shield for best model at the 2007 Annual Regatta were two non-warships, the lighthouse and navigation aids tender Cape Don and the USS Charles Robinson, a Liberty Ship.

Similarly, the vessel voted best model of the 2008 Annual Regatta was a United States Army hospital ship, the USAHS St Olaf which, while operated by the military, was not a warship.