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A MARITIME HERITAGE

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  • Hardback
  • 265 x 217mm
  • 152 Pages
  • 0.62 kg
  • Black & white photographs
  • Published 2024

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Out of Auckland revisited.
New Zealand’s small boat sailors. Designers and builders, whose skills are recognised internationally, owe much to their inheritance of a comparatively short, but exceedingly active history of things nautical.
From the first known named craft, the Providence, built by sealers in 1792, necessity motivated the early settlers of New Zealand from both the British Isles and North America to design, build and sail craft appropriate to local and overseas trade. Cutters, ketches and scows for the tricky estuaries and rivers; schooners for the missionaries, blackbirders and island traders; and barques and brigantines for further afield.
In this book the author has provided a detailed and interesting account of the builders and craft of this period, when the only power was the wind and the only materials were the excellent native timbers. Meticulous research, as well as the author’s own experience of life on commercial sailing vessels, makes the text authoritative, and the photographs, many from the author’s own collection, provide superb visual reference.
A Maritime Heritage is a revised and enlarged version of Out of Auckland which was published by the author in 1960. As well as being enhanced by a considerable number of additional photographs the new version retains the valuable register of Ships and a comprehensive index.​
Available now as a limited edition reprint

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