Story: Blake, Peter James

Fishing, 1965

Fishing, 1965

A young Peter Blake fishes off Ngarangi in the Bay of Islands during the Christmas holidays in 1965. Thousands of hours spent on the water and in boats during his youth prepared Blake for his life as a yachtsman.

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Stephanie Gibson. 'Blake, Peter James', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6b1/blake-peter-james (accessed 29 March 2024)