LEE RAIL, A CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF RICHMOND YACHT CLUB 1903 ~ 2003
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Description This club history is about one of New Zealand’s best-known yacht clubs, one of the “Westhaven Four”, and is written by two of New Zealand’s best-known yachting historians. The book is full of stories and photographs describing major events in Auckland’s yachting history from the beginning of the 20th century until this year. There is a profusion of photographs showing yachts in full flight, in particular some stunning shots of X and Z class dinghies, and others, on the plane with up to 4 large adults hanging over the transom as ballast! The Richmond Yacht Club has always been a family club, and this culture continues today. There is still a link with at least one of the club’s earliest classes (the M class – also the subject of a Robin Elliott book Emmy). The club is very much alive and well, which I am sure is in part due to the influence of the immediate past commodore, Vigette Worters, who I know from personal experience is a very fine lady and a fine sailor, who knits sailing groups together as though they were her own family. One of the special joys in reading a book such as this is the large number of personal acquaintances that Auckland yachties will easily recognise, and possible see in photographs. This book is a must for sailors who have been involved in club sailing on Auckland Harbour.
