Sealegs’ new 8.5m Alloy Cabin take’s the company’s aluminium recreational range up another notch, and this one’s colour scheme is certainly designed to catch the eye.
BOAT BRIEF
Westhaven’s new marine village
Panuku Development Auckland is creating a new opportunity for marine businesses to be located side-by-side within the popular Westhaven Marina.
Waikawa gets green light
Plans for an extension to Waikawa Marina have progressed with the Port Marlborough Board giving approval for the project to proceed.
Cape Horn the hard way
Russian ocean paddler, Fedor Konyukhov, is well on his way from Port Chalmers, Dunedin to Cape Horn.
Reduce, reuse, recycle
This mantra of sustainable business is well-illustrated by a fleet of sturdy little Davidson M20 trailer-sailers – looking good after a refurbishment and still in bareboat charter after nearly 45 years.
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Features
Pastime meets Mascotte – Pastime part 2
After the Lyttelton Regatta on 1st January 1887 Malcolm Miller knew he had a problem with Pastime, his smart new keel yacht. She’d been trounced again by Sinclair’s Little Wonder and just beaten by the old Auckland yacht Fleetwing. She wasn’t fast enough.
Navigating safely
Specialised chart plotters, mobile phone apps and open source software have become more popular and affordable. They serve as practical navigational aids, particularly on small, bouncing vessels where a lack of space is not conducive to paper and pencil navigation.
JACK’S NEW TACK
An early Kiwi ocean sailor plans to part ways with his faithful vessel.
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Southern girl – PASTIME PART 1
Pastime is one of the few South Island 19th century yachts to have survived in anything like her original form. She was built at Lyttelton by Malcolm Miller in 1886 and is now well into an exciting authentic restoration.
Mason Clipper 23 resto
Whangamata-based master craftsman Harry Nordberg has resuscitated a 1962 Mason Clipper 23 – giving the 57-year-old dame the cosmetic surgery she needed and deserved, writes Roger Mills. This boat has been restored for a client in Queenstown, and I caught up with Harry just before she was shipped south to her new owner. His involvement with the Mason Clipper goes back to 2016, when Harry was building a gleaming mahogany racer, Baby Thunder (featured in the May 2016 issue of Boating New Zealand). A number of interested onlookers monitored Baby Thunder’s progress, and after a number of visits one of them said: “Harry, we...