Classic boats - Images from the New Zealand Clinker Boat Exhibition

by Richard Gladwell, Sail-World.com NZ on 8 Oct 2017 On Friday and over the weekend the Rino Tawa Trust held an exhibition of clinker boats of all ages and genres, at the Viaduct Harbour.

The sun was out on Friday morning and was a great day for those involved in the boatbuilding and marine industries to get together and swap stories as they checked out the fleet on display.

A special mention was made of Jack Taylor, now aged 95, and one of the few remaining boatbuilders to have completed his apprenticeship before the start of World War II. Not far behind him was well-known boat designer and builder Jim Young, together with Robert Brooke - the doyen of wooden small boat builders.

Organised by the Tino Rawa Trust as their project for 2017, the exhibition ran from Saturday to Sunday.