Rawene (Yacht)

Gaff Cutter designed by Arch Logan and built by Logan Brothers Shipyard, New Zealand in 1908. Built for Alf Gifford, then owned by his son Jack Gifford, then the Brooke family before being purchased by the Tino Rawa Trust in November 2012.

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Photograph of the yacht Rawene in Wellington Harbour - Taken by an unknown photographer

Date: [Between 1909 and 1914]

From: Smith, Len W : Photographs of yachting

Reference: PAColl-D-0023

Description: Photograph of the Rawene under sail with a dinghy in tow. Taken at close range with houses in Oriental Bay visible in the distance. Grass Street steps and track up the hill can be seen to the left of the yacht. The Rawene was built in 1909 and converted to cutter rig in 1914. Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Rawene Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 36.5 x 28 cm with mount

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Dominion Museum : Photographs from the C J Lindsay collection

Date: ca 1910s-1940s

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Dominion Museum (N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-4337

Description: Photographs of yachts and yachting in the Wellington area. They include: yachts under construction or repair, a dry dock between two rows of boatsheds, the boatshed of the Brighton Power Boat Club, a yacht called the Igdrasil in the fiords, the Muratai in 1946, the Banika at Akaroa in 1948, the Hex leaving Wellington for the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, the Patari and Pacific at Purau, Lyttelton (taken by Allson Wright of Hereford Street, Christchurch), some men and women on the launch Tarepa ca 1940s, the Ludwig in 1925, and the Rawene in 1934. Also included are a photograph of a man working on an exhibit of a pa tuwatawata in the Dominion Museum with the maihi of a meeting house or pataka behind him and other carvings along the walls and a photograph of two men working in the taxidermy department with a variety of birds and bird skeletons on the table. Quantity: 34 b&w original photographic print(s).

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Lindsay album 2

Date: Between 1912 and 1933

By: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966

Reference: PA1-o-263

Description: Photograph album created by Charles John Lindsay, containing scenes of various holiday yachting cruises, usually at Christmas and Easter (between 1925 and 1933), to the Marlborough Sounds and Kapiti Island. Crew members are identified with initials and surnames. The yachts they crewed on were the Viking, Iolanthe, Wairere (I), and Rawene. Many other yachts seen while sailing are also named. Picnic parties including men and women are shown in group portraits Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover, entitled `Photographs'; 18.5 x 30.0 cm Provenance: No donor or provenance information available

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Logs of recreational cruises

Date: 1927-1928, 1930-1935, 1943-1944

From: Lindsay, Charles John, 1902-1966 : Logs of recreational cruises mainly in the Marlborough Sounds

Reference: MS-Papers-0514-1

Description: Comprises: Wairere I - Xmas cruise, 1927-28 Rawene - Xmas cruise, 1930-31; Xmas cruise, 1931-32 [Note: Cover is entitled "Log of Rawene, December 1931, January 1932"] Viking - Xmas cruise, 1932-33, Port Underwood & Tory Channel Cruise, Easter 1934; Xmas cruise, 1934-35 [Note: cover entitled "Viking cruise, Dec 1932 Jan 1934"] Viking - Queen Charlotte Sound, Jan 1934; Kapiti Island, Easter 1933 [Note: cover entitled "Viking Kapiti cruise Easter 1933"] Viking - Easter cruise, 1935 Maranui - Sounds cruise, Xmas New Year 1943-44 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

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Yacht Rawene

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Kinnear, James Hutchings, 1877-1946 :Negatives of Auckland shipping, boating and scenery

Reference: 1/2-016049-F

Description: Yacht `Rawene' circa 1910. Photograph taken by James Hutchings Kinnear, probably in Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

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Yacht Rawene

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Kinnear, James Hutchings, 1877-1946 :Negatives of Auckland shipping, boating and scenery

Reference: 1/2-016051-G

Description: Yacht `Rawene' circa 1910. Photograph taken by James Hutchings Kinnear, probably in Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative