THE MAKING OF Way Maker
What were you doing in 1996? At school? Advancing your career? Raising children? Aucklander Malcolm Steedman was beginning the conversion…
STILL LARKING ABOUT
“An old bugger still ticking over” – is how 90-year-old Alan Wright describes himself and his desire to keep designing boats and having a…
Kingfish on top!
In certain habitats – deep reefs, offshore islands, headlands and rock stacks swept by currents – kingfish are available year-round, but…
WAIROA RIVER CRUISE TO CLEVEDON
Blokes never age – at least in their minds. And so when I suggested a boat trip up a half-forgotten creek, my neighbour Steve was…
Where TOP SAILS fly
Every year many of the country’s traditional boat sailors get together to cross tacks in the Bay of Islands.
Walter Reeks’ ‘Volunteer’ & Bailey’s ‘Viking’
Volunteer was built in October 1888 during a wave of large yacht construction in Sydney in which her designer, Walter Reeks, played a large…
BEN MAYALL – Northcote legend
Ben Mayall was well-known as a competitive centreboard yachtsman just before and after the Great War. The Mayalls and the Couldreys were…
The Couldreys
The Couldrey family had a strong presence on the Auckland waterfront from the 1870s. Arnold (Bill) Couldrey became a major figure in New…
Speaking for orca
Spend ten minutes talking with Dr Ingrid Visser and you’ll want to save every orca in the ocean.
STORY TIME
With grey, almost windlesconditions, no boat was likely to threaten the race record in October’s PIC Coastal Classic from Auckland to…
Whales & Warriors
High-latitude sailors are considered lucky if they witness the awe-inspiring displays of the aurora borealis or aurora australis…
