Vintage View
John Chapple Part 1: Brilliant allrounder
John David Lincoln Chapple died on 26th November 2025. He was a brilliant sailor...
The 1908 Rudder Cup entrants (part 3)
In the last two issues I have described, in the order of their entry, the builde...
The 1908 Rudder Cup entrants (part 2)
In the last issue of Boating NZ, I detailed the anticipation and excitement on t...
The Rudder Cup; a survey of Auckland’s top launches of 1908 (part 1)
Last month I promised that this issue would be devoted to a rattling good yarn a...
The second Tawera, 1935
During the winter of 1935, Scott Wilson engaged Arch Logan to design the largest...
The second yacht named Tawera
In my last article I wrote about the strong relationship between the menfolk of ...
The two yachts named Tawera
A very high proportion of commercial vessels, yachts and launches built in
New...
PETREL, Raters again
From its beginnings in the 1860s the sport of yachting in New Zealand had two ma...
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 Gu...
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 ...
The New Zealand Raters – Export
In December 1898 a major yachting event was held in Auckland, the first with any...
The 1895 8-raters
In an international context, perhaps the most extraordinary feature of the Auckl...
5-raters and spoon bows too
However, by 1895 the 5-raters were attracting even more attention than their sma...
The 2½ raters of the 1890s
New Zealand was by no means a backwater in yacht design and construction in 1890...
New Zealand-built Marine Engines. Part I
The new equipment consisted of some sort of motive power, a vacuum pump, a milki...
Boats At War: Motor Launch Patrols 1914-1918
The tactics of Waterloo no longer stood up to infantry fire from modern high-vel...
One man and his boats: Harold George; Victory at war
Harold George had a busy decade in the 1930s. Despite the Depression the Lovegro...