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Kōrero: Sailing and windsurfing

Penny’s Sailing School

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Penny’s Sailing School

Traditionally New Zealand boys learnt to sail in small P-class dinghies, but in the 1970s Auckland’s Penny Whiting set up a school to teach beginners how to sail in keelboats. Increasingly, women were attracted to the sport.

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Penny Whiting Sailing School

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Harold Kidd, Sailing and windsurfing – Yachting after 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7148/pennys-sailing-school (accessed 4 June 2026).

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