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KAMIKAZE.By James Delgado. Paperback, 130mm x 197mm, 225 pages, black & white photos.
After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan. He commanded an immense armada, the largest fleet the world had ever seen and his success seemed assured. The Japanese were vastly outnumbered and facing certain death, but they prayed to their gods for survival and the very next day Khan's entire armada was destroyed by a 'divine wind', the kamikaze.
The legend of the Kamikaze has endured for centuries, and was revived as a Japenese national legend during the Second World War, culminating the suicide bombers they sent to attack the Allies, but the truth has remained a mystery. Only now, after decades of painstaking research and underwater excavation can leading marine archaeologist James Delgado reveal the truth of what really happened to Khubilai Khan's fleet.
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
GUARDIANS OF THE LIGHT DVD.Howard Taylor Productions. Duration: 45 minutes.
The Lives of Lighthouse Keepers.
The days when lighthouse keepers sat up all night to keep the lights going are over. In this documentary the men and women who lived on the isolated islands and craggy cliffs of New Zealand’s manned lighthouse stations talk about a lifestyle that ended last century.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
TIDES OF CHANGE - THE STORY OF THE NEW ZEALAND FEDERATION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN.By Jenny Howarth. Softback, 170mm x 240mm, 335 pages, monochrome photographs.
The first fifty years 1958 – 2008. Tides of Change tells the story of the owner-operators – the independent fishermen who sailed small vessels to harvest the New Zealand seas. Their small craft limited most of them to the inshore fisheries, to catching snapper, gurnard, cod, rock lobster, hapuka, tarakihi and many other popular species.
This book is a tribute to those men who gave devoted service to their industry for so long. It is also a tribute to all fishermen who have battled the elements at sea and the changing tides of policy on shore and managed to keep fishing.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
NETS, LINES AND POTS VOLUME ONE, TWO & THREE.By Emmanuel Makarios. Paperback, 190mm x 260mm, Vol 1 has 112 pages, Volume two 120 pages, volume three 104 pages, monochrome photographs.
This is a three volume narrative of episodes in the story of New Zealand's commercial fishing history. The tales recount the activities of the hardy individuals, who in the face of often adverse weather and economic conditions, have sought to earn a living from the sea, as well as their vessels and the communities in which they lived.
There are in total thirty-seven chapters in the three books. Together they document a fundamental aspect of New Zealand's maritime heritage, and its economic and social history. There can be no doubt that this book will appeal to those who have served in the fishing boat or the general work boat industry for some years. They are certain to recognise some of the personalities and vessels that they have passed by during their service at sea.
Volume One:
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
Volume Two:
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
Volume Three:
NZ$30.00 + delivery.
WAIONE - ONE OF THE FAMILY DVD.By Gaffrig Productions. Running time 47 minutes.
New Zealand is a unique environment for classic boats and there are a high number of yachts that are sailed there exactly as they have been for 100 years or more. Waione is one such yacht.
Designed by Chas Bailey Jr in 1907, she is 95 years old and in perfect condition, having never been restored. She is steeped in history. Her story is told in this documentary by some of the past 17 owners. She is a cherished member of her current family who have refitted her with a gaff rig.
This has turned her back into one of New Zealand's finest performing classic racers.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
PONSONBY CRUISING CLUB, The First Hundred Years. By Harold Kidd and Robin Elliott. Pbk, landscape 240mm x 210mm, 101 pages, monochrome and full colour photographs.
This book starts off with a top pedigree as the authors are well known as historians of the New Zealand recreational boating scene. They have together and separately written several fine books on this topic, as well as magazine articles in the New Zealand boating press. It is very refreshing that both are practitioners of the sport, in particular Harold Kidd who has a background as New Zealand's national yachting coach.
The Ponsonby Cruising Club is something of an icon in New Zealand yachting and yacht racing circles; this book has ingested much of the flavour and personality of boats, skippers and crews racing on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour since 1900, when the club was founded. The narrative is very well illustrated, using black and white and latterly colour photographs of yachts and racing in Auckland. Robin Elliott has an enormous resource of such pictures available to him as a result of his previous mainly-Auckland based research.
The five chapters of the book trace the early days of Auckland yachting leading to the foundation of the club, and trace the history of the club through two World Wars, concluding with the move from Saint Mary's Bay to neighbouring Westhaven. In conclusion three appendices give full records of trophy winners, the Mullet Boat Register (which I suspect is an indulgence Robin could not resist!), and a full list of officers from the inception of the club 1900.
Understandably this book might be regarded as just another in-house club history. It is, however, far more than that. The pedigree of the authors, the breadth of their narrative and photographs, and the position of the club in the Auckland yachting scene make this book as much a part of Auckland's general yachting history as, say, the books Emmy, Winklemann's Waitemata, Vintage New Zealand Launches and The Logans.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
THE SHIPS OF OMAHA. By Carol & James Ramage. Limp back, 210mm x 297mm (A4), 165 pages, full colour and sepia photos and drawings.
This book describes origins of the principle builders, the Meiklejohn family, and the scows and early sailing vessels and the environment in which they were built and operated in the Omaha vicinity. Omaha is in the north west corner of the Hauraki Gulf, north of Kawau Island.
The vessels described feature those built by the principle shipbuilding families, the Meiklejohns, Darrochs, Mathesons, and also other builds. One of the authors - Carol Ramage - is the great grandaughter of Septimus Meiklejohn, which was a major motivation for producing the book.
The presentation is lavish with many pictures of the ships and their surroundings, full colour, original sepia and black and white photographs, and colour reproductions of paintings. The book is very well priced. The histories of vessels are detailed and the narrative will be absorbing to anyone having an interest in the area, and in general of coastal trade by sailing vessel in New Zealand.
NZ$60.00 + delivery.
THE WAHINE DISASTER, A Tragedy RememberedBy Emmanuel Makarios, Pbk 210mm x 280mm, 60 pages.
This new book is a study of one of the worst maritime disasters in New Zealand history.
Drawing on oral history and archival records, it provides a vivid account of the events of 10 April 1968. It answers all of the most frequently asked questions about the tragedy, providing information about the storm and its impact, how and why the ferry foundered, the various experience of those on board and the many valiant rescue efforts both at sea and ashore.
NZ$35.00 + delivery.
RANGER, The making Of A New Zealand Yachting LegendBy Sandra Gorter & Aroha Tercel, Pbk, 170mm x 230mm, 228 pages, full colour, sepia and monochrome photographs and plans.
The classic yacht Ranger was designed and built by the late Lou Tercel as an A class racing keeler and launched in 1938; she immediately established a dominance over racing in Auckland which lasted for more than 25 years.
During her reign Ranger inspired an era of construction and design experimentation that led New Zealand to the pinnacle of success in the yachting world.
Lou Tercel was the son of an immigrant couple, famously irascible in temperamentand the subject of countless colourful tales.
This book is the result of meticulous research by authors who in the one case is married to the nephew of Lou Tercel, and in the other is a trained journalist with considerable experience in writing about historic New Zealand yachts and yachting.
NZ$40.00 + Delivery
BLIND BAY HOOKERS - THE LITTLE SHIPS OF EARLY NELSON.By Fred Westrupp. Paperback, 170mm X 241 mm, 216 pages, black and white photos.
Nelson's "Mosquito Fleet" of little sailing vessels played a vital role in the first century of European settlement, not only in Blind Bay but around the whole top half of the South Island and across Cook Strait. From the Deal boats that came from England with the first New Zealand Company ships to the Tasmanian ketches and Auckland-built scows that carries timber, coal and other cargoes in and out of the bays, these vessels were the lifelines of a rugged and isolated region and their story is told in the context of the pioneers who built them, sailed them and depended on them.
NZ$50.00 + Delivery
DEVONPORT YACHT CLUB.Edited By Harold Kidd. Pbk, 296mm x 210mm, 225 pages, monochrome and some colour photographs.
Lady Blake: "The Devonport Yacht Club is a true institutional part of the maritime heritage of Devonport. Situated on one of the most prominent waterfront sites of the Auckland Harbour it is indeed significant that this prime piece of land has been a shipyard for nearly a hundred and fifty years. It is doubtful whether any other yacht club in New Zealand can claim such a distinction.
Long before the Club was formed in 1905 the Devonport foreshore was the centre of the country's largest shipbuilding industry. Also this was the cradle for yacht racing in New Zealand as evidenced by some of the Club's magnificent trophies dating back as far as the 1870's. All the fascinating history leading up to the formation of the Club and its subsequent activities over the past one hundred years is now contained in this splendid publication with its wonderful illustrations.
As so many yachtsmen and their families, public figures and other institutions have been involved in some aspect of the Club's activities over these past years this book will appeal to a far wider section of the community than the Club's current membership. It should certainly form part of any dedicated mariner's library."
NZ$60.00 + delivery.
EMMY, Seventy Years of M-Class Yachting.By Robin Elliott. Pbk, 185mm x 250mm, 352 pages, monochrome photographs.
This book started something big in the world of New Zealand maritime books. Robin Elliott worked very hard for a long time collecting the research material needed for an in-depth history of one of New Zealand's iconic classes. The resulting material was so broad that it has led on to further books and a video on other events and classes, in the history of New Zealand recreational and sports yachting.
The M-Class is one of Auckland's most notable centreboard classes and completed its seventieth continuous racing season on Auckland's Waitemata Harbour in 1993. This will undoubtably take the class into world record ranking for unbroken seasonal racing longevity.
Designed by Arch Logan in 1922 as a seaworthy cruiser/racer, this 18 foot clinker-built centreboarder, popularly known as the Emmy after its class registration letter, grew in both strength and reputation to become one of the aristocrats of the centreboard scene.
Despite fluctuations in its fortunes and dramatic changes in yacht design and construction over the last forty years, the Emmy has survived and is held in abiding affection by generations of yachtsmen.
This book is an authoritative and detailed account of the M-Class and places the development of the class in the larger context of yachting on the Waitemata.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
LEE RAIL, A Centennial History of the Richmond Yacht Club 1903 ~ 2003By Harold Kidd and Robin Elliott. Pbk, landscape 240mm x 210mm, 135 pages, full colour and monochrome photographs.
This club history is about one of New Zealand's best-known yacht clubs, one of the "Westhaven Four", and is written by two of New Zealand's best-known yachting historians.
The book is full of stories and photographs describing major events in Auckland's yachting history from the beginning of the 20th century until this year. There is a profusion of photographs showing yachts in full flight, in particular some stunning shots of X and Z class dinghies, and others, on the plane with up to 4 large adults hanging over the transom as ballast!
The Richmond Yacht Club has always been a family club, and this culture continues today. There is still a link with at least one of the club's earliest classes (the M class - also the subject of a Robin Elliott book Emmy). The club is very much alive and well, which I am sure is in part due to the influence of the immediate past commodore, Vigette Worters, who I know from personal experience is a very fine lady and a fine sailor, who knits sailing groups together as though they were her own family.
One of the special joys in reading a book such as this is the large number of personal acquaintances that Auckland yachties will easily recognise, and possible see in photographs. This book is a must for sailors who have been involved in club sailing on Auckland Harbour.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
THE ERA OF COASTAL SHIPPING IN NEW ZEALAND.By Murray Jennings. Hardback, 197mm x 266mm, 193 pages, monochrome photographs.
For many years the transport of goods between New Zealand towns was done by ships which would voyage from one port to another. Gradually as roads improved this trade died. The introduction of the inter-island roll-on roll-off ferries in 1962 finally killed most coastal trade. Many small ports simply ceased to operate and with them went a whole era of New Zealand social and maritime history.
This book presents the stories of some of those who worked on ships and the history of the port of Raglan is presented as an illustrative example of a coastal port that no longer exists as such. The bulk of the book is a presentation of all the motor ships that operated between 100 and 1600 tonnes with illustrations, specifications and a brief history.
NZ$60.00 + delivery.
THE LIVES OF JESSIE LOGAN, the Story of New Zealand's Oldest Yacht.PAL and NTSC format. Running time 49 minutes.
Jessie Logan is New Zealand's oldest yacht. She could have been a relic of New Zealand's maritime history had she not been restored to her former glory. She was relaunched in Auckland in January 2001.
Jessie Logan was built in 1880 by Robert Logan, a Scotsman who had emigrated to New Zealand in 1874. She was New Zealand's first champion yacht, but in her 121 years has undergone many changes in appearance. This documentary explores the history of the vessel, the traditional skills employed in her restoration, and the personalities who in combination made this venture possible. One of a series produced by Gaffrig Productions, New Zealand's specialist classic boat production company, it is enticingly filmed and beautifully presented.
This is one of a series produced by Gaffrig Productions, New Zealand's specialist classic boat production company. The Lives of Jessie Logan has been enticingly filmed and beautifully presented.
NZ$40.00 + Delivery
See also THE LOGANS, New Zealand's Greatest Boat Building Family.
THE STORY OF SANFORD LTD, The First One Hundred Years. By Paul Titchener. Hbk, 190mm x 255mm, 133 pages, monochrome and full colour photographs and drawings.
The history of Sanford Limited, New Zealand's biggest fishing company, is the history of fishing in New Zealand, Auckland in particular, and as such will be of interest not only to those engaged in the Fishing Industry, but also to anyone interested in the maritime history of New Zealand.
The author is well known as a maritime historian in New Zealand and he has recorded the human interest side, such as when pigeons were used to inform the Company of catches from their large war-time steel trawlers! He traces the development of the technology as well as the human side.
This book has just come onto our shelves although it was published in 1981. This centenary edition is an in-house item and we are very glad to include it in our selection of New Zealand fishing industry books. It contains many excellent photos in colour and monochrome of old and relatively new fleet vessels; pictures of personalities afloat and ashore and a host of anecdotes that New Zealand fishermen will recognise.
NZ$45.00 + delivery.
TED ASHBY, Big Rig of the Gulf, DVDBy Gaffrig Productions, 70 minutes, DVD PAL.
Ted Ashby - Big Rig of the Gulf has taken 10 years to complete. This film follows the construction of a new scow, the Ted Ashby, built for the New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland. It has been completed in time for the vessel's 10th anniversary in August 2003.
The original construction footage shot in 1992 includes a timelapse from 3 angles, and the building process from timber milling to lauching.
The New Zealand trading scow's history and Ted Ashyby's story is told by the people involved - the designers, builders, sailmakers, historians and the people whose vision made the project possible. The atmosphere of an era past has been recreated. Modern techniques plus new and old footage enable the viewer a look at a history almost lost. The Ted Ashby was the first new scow to be built for many years and there is unlikely to be another with the same authenticity. Ted Ashby - Big Rig of the Gulf is the third film in a maritime series made by Rick Allender and award winning Gaffrig Productions.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
Subritzky Shipping (A Heritage of Sail) 1843 - 1993By M.R.G Subritzky, Softback, 210mm x 300mm, 176 pages, monochrome photographs.
This book was published as a commemoration to mark an association of 150 years of seafaring history fulfilled by one of New Zealand's earliest pioneering families, and records the maritime history of New Zealand's oldest privately owned shipping company.
NZ$40.00 + delivery.
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