Skip to text
Welcome > HISTORY AND RESOURCES > Linksfurther reading

We love their work!

Classic Yacht Association of New Zealand

Rogue

Rona Preservation Trust

New Zealand Traditional Boatbuilding School

Restoration of Rainbow

Restoration of Wairiki

Thomas family history

Tino Rawa Trust

Mawhiti

Idle Along Association NZ

New Zealand Maritime Index

Woollacott Association

Further Reading

Below is a growing selection of reading for information on yachting in the Wellington region. Some have a national perspective, but have significant regional content.

Classic: the revival of classic boating in New Zealand. Ivor Wilkins. Auckland: Random House. 2010.

Cockle Cove. Lorna Mason. Queen Charlotte Sound: Cape Catley. 2000.

Half a century on the Bay : the first 50 years of the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club. Robin McMillan. Wellington: Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club, 1969.

Heretaunga Boating Club: 100 years sailing Petone 1906-2006. Helen R.M.Smith (ed). Petone: Heretaunga Boating Club. 2005.

Sailors of 41° south : stories from the Nelson Yacht Club 1857-2007. Tracy Neal. Nelson: Nelson Yacht Club. 2007.

Sandbanks & centreboards: a sixty-four year history of the Paremata Boating Club 1923-1987. Helen Riggir, Ian Riggir, Ross Giblin. Plimmerton: Paremata Boating Club.

The Logans : New Zealand's greatest boatbuilding family. Robin Elliott, Harold Kidd. Auckland: David Ling Publishing. 2001.

The Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club: One hundred years 1883-1983. J B Cronin (ed). Wellington: Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. 1983.

Southern breeze. Harold Kidd, Robin Elliott and David Pardon. Auckland: Viking. 1999.

Â