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The Rudder Cup; a survey of Auckland’s top launches of 1908
Last month I promised that this issue would be devoted to a rattling good yarn about the match race ...
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The second Tawera, 1935
During the winter of 1935, Scott Wilson engaged Arch Logan to design the largest racing/cruising yac...
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The second yacht named Tawera
In my last article I wrote about the strong relationship between the menfolk of the Wilson and the H...
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The two yachts named Tawera
A very high proportion of commercial vessels, yachts and launches built in
New Zealand from coloni...
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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, oft...
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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...
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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 ...
The 1895 8-raters
In an international context, perhaps the most extraordinary feature of the Auckland-built raters I h...
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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. Wh...
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 ...
The Raters
Over two hundred years ago, yachting was a brand-new amateur sport of the moneyed classes in England...
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 se...
Boats At War: Motor Launch Patrols 1914-1918
The tactics of Waterloo no longer stood up to infantry fire from modern high-velocity repeating rifl...
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