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Story: Sailing and windsurfing

Lyttelton yachts

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Lyttelton yachts

Yachting surged in popularity from the 1940s to the 1960s. This busy scene is outside the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club’s shed at Lyttelton, during a regatta in December 1964.

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Reference: PhotoCD 11, IMG0026 Z Arch 72/61; Christchurch Star 7 December 1964, p. 10

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Harold Kidd, Sailing and windsurfing – Yachting after 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/7141/lyttelton-yachts (accessed 4 June 2026).

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