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48 minutes ago, darkside said:

Not quite that old but 25 years ago today leaving GH for Tonga for the first time on my own boat.

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That boat is now moored out front of our Bach at taurikura . Guy who owns it lives on a tiny island right where boat is moored 

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2 hours ago, 44forty said:

That boat is now moored out front of our Bach at taurikura . Guy who owns it lives on a tiny island right where boat is moored 

And his sister who lives nearby was married to the guy who owned Petticoats for about a million years.

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My first time solo on a Laser.  I weighed about two feathers at the time and was 11 or 12 years old.  I persuaded one of my father's friends to let me borrow his near-new Laser (check out that low sail number).  Mid '70s Oakura Bay, Northland.

 

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Maybe this one doesn't qualify but it is interesting.  Erehwon circa 1949.  My father was regular racing crew on Erewhon but took this photo from Inyala on which he cruised regularly (see the book "A Modern Sea Beggar" by Temple Utley available to read online).

 

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3 hours ago, MuzzaB said:

My first time solo on a Laser.  I weighed about two feathers at the time and was 11 or 12 years old.  I persuaded one of my father's friends to let me borrow his near-new Laser (check out that low sail number).  Mid '70s Oakura Bay, Northland.

 

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That’s hard case and a cool pic . I would’ve been across the other side at puriri bay but in a micron . sh*t whangaruru was a cool place in the 70s and 80s especially when Seabee air dropped bread and milk at bland bay 

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1 hour ago, 44forty said:

That’s hard case and a cool pic . I would’ve been across the other side at puriri bay but in a micron . sh*t whangaruru was a cool place in the 70s and 80s especially when Seabee air dropped bread and milk at bland bay 

I recall SeaBee Air coming onto the beach at Oakura at least once, but that required zero swell.  I used to love exploring up Whangaruru.

But as you mentioned SeaBee Air, here is a one of those wonderful Grummans having just dropped Dad off to join the boat at Otehei Bay, Urupukapuka, 1979-80.

 

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