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Worser Bay Boating Club

These photographs were hanging on the walls of the clubhouse which as at 2018 is being rebuilt. Captions are as they appear on the reverse of the the frames.

8a Reid Shield 1942

Competitors on the beach

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8b Reid Sheild 1942

Waiting for the start

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9 Totally Wired

S Hogg, B Linton
Leander Trophy Winner 1989

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10 CKUW
M Calkoen, R Bryant
Leander Trophy Winner 1985

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28 Cork Jacket

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28 Idle Alongs 1934

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29 Y Worry

J Askew, T Crew
Leander Trophy Winner 1988

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33a Courier

January 1937

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33b Aurora & Cavalier
1939-1940 season

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38 [An R class]

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39 Bomb R

M Berry, G Taylor-Smith
Leander Trophy Winner 1984

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40 Reid Challenge Shield 1934
1st Pukeko (WBBC)
2nd Nahlin (WBBC)

6 boats finished out of the 23 starters.
Just prior to the start.
Photo by SC Smith of Wellington

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41 Nahlin

Idle Along Championship, Wellington 1937

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42 Envoy

NZ Champion & Moffat Cup Winner 1952

S Bacon, D Jones, G Daniel

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43 Electra

RW Huntington, K Huntington, J MacDonald
1949

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44 Idle Along Challenge Shield 1935

Worser Bay

Won by Rongomai

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45 Elvine 1935/1936

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46 Wellington heads 1946

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47a Reid Shield

Antoinette crossing the line

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47b Reid Shield

Winning crew: L Bristow, D Bell, H Robinson (skipper)

Photos taken by Mr CC Wearne
Karaka Bay, 8th March 1942

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48 Result Auckland

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50 Amber Ken Kissling, Sonny Pengally
Runners-up, National Flying Fifteen Championships 1969

Amber built in 1965

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51a Trampus Tauranga Cup 1969 Howick

Mark Berry

P323 build by Max Carter for Mark Berry, Oct 1968

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51b Tomboy Tauranga Cup 1968 Tauranga

Micheal Leydon

P57 built by John Leydon Oct 1966

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52 Seeker

11th Cornwell Cup,
Wellington Provincial Champions 1969

John Leydon, Lesley Douglas

Z57 built by John Leydon, Dec 1968

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53 Presentation to His Royal Highness,Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh by the NZ Manufacturers' Federation of 14-foot Sanders Cup Fibreglass yacht at Lyttelton on 17th December 1956.

The hull was manufactured by Modern Plastics (NZ) Ltd.

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55 horizon

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