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PETREL, Raters again
From its beginnings in the 1860s the sport of yachting in New Zealand had two major streams.
The Yates family of the Far North and their Bailey & Lowe launches Part II: Tui Silver Bell
Joseph William (Joe) Conrad, who bought the bigger Tui (now Silver Bell) from Gus Yates in 1914, often used his Māori names,
Hohepa Kanara or Hohepa...
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The Yates family of the far north and their Bailey & Lowe launches
The Yates family had extensive holdings in the Far North around the turn of the 20th century. Samuel Yates was born in London in 1826. His father was ...
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The New Zealand Raters – Export
In December 1898 a major yachting event was held in Auckland, the first with any true international content. The North Shore Native Regatta and Carniv...
The 1895 8-raters
In an international context, perhaps the most extraordinary feature of the Auckland-built raters I have described so far in this series, and those to ...
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5-raters and spoon bows too
However, by 1895 the 5-raters were attracting even more attention than their smaller stablemates. Where the 2½-raters had become handy 35 to 36ft harb...
The 2½ raters of the 1890s
New Zealand was by no means a backwater in yacht design and construction in 1890. The new ideas had been spread rapidly around the world by publicatio...
The Raters
Over two hundred years ago, yachting was a brand-new amateur sport of the moneyed classes in England, Scotland and Ireland. It got its name from the D...
New Zealand-built Marine Engines. Part I
The new equipment consisted of some sort of motive power, a vacuum pump, a milking set anda cream separator. Steam engines required a steam ticket and...
Boats At War: Motor Launch Patrols 1914-1918
The tactics of Waterloo no longer stood up to infantry fire from modern high-velocity repeating rifles being shot with smokeless powder from concealme...
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