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Seventy Years of M-Class Yachting.
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.
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