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Story: Sailing and windsurfing

Sailing canoes

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Sailing canoes

In Nelson, as in other New Zealand centres, there was a craze for sailing canoes. These are being sailed near the mouth of the Maitai River, around 1920.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Nelson Jones Collection (PAColl-3051)

Reference: 1/2-036043; G

by Frederick Nelson Jones

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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Harold Kidd, Sailing and windsurfing – 1880s: increasing sophistication, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7125/sailing-canoes (accessed 4 June 2026).

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