was in wellington for work and found this cool old pic from a memories magazine.
Land yacht built in 1942, and being sailed at Piha Beach.
The story in the mag says "Dad decided to build a sand yacht (sound familiar anyone??) using the sail from my yacht Z29. I went with him to the tip at Middleton Road where about a dozen old motorcycles had been dumped. He gave the custodian five shillings and we proceeded to hacksaw off three front forks, complete with wheels and tyres for the project. We built a frame from a triangle of oregon 4x2's, with a sucessful result. My mast and sail was also used on the Piha surf boat to sail up to Muriwai Beach on one occasion" end quote.
Do not know who the author is but its pretty cool.
HA! Used to sail on one of those z class yachts Takapuna class was their proper name
Had forgotten how low aspect the rig was
Great picture!! Lion rock at Piha!
Hiko
Thanks for that Smokey...... a very interesting and historic photo, strange how
it come up at a time when i have been doodling with something a little
similar. I am going to start a new thread for such photos to be posted into,
so i hope people only post the shot and an interesting background . These
give us all ideas. Please re post your photo there and we will see where it all
leads to. We may collectively get togrther a great pictorial historical thread
