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Kōrero: Sailing and windsurfing

Sailing-boat

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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

Reference: 1/2-080676; F

by Isaac Henry Bowen Jeffares

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Harold Kidd, Sailing and windsurfing – The early years, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7114/sailing-boat (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Harold Kidd, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 June 2016.