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Story: Sailing and windsurfing

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Sailing-boat

Unlike yachts, sailing-boats like this one on Wellington Harbour, had no deck and were short, with relatively small sails. Such boats usually began life as working craft.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Jeffares Collection

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Harold Kidd, Sailing and windsurfing – The early years, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7114/sailing-boat (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Harold Kidd, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 June 2016.