Greetings Yachties, My little yachtyakka is getting big. There are currently 7000 images and many, many more links to yachting all over the world. Below is an index of the feature stories so far. Sailors Abby Sunderland Abby Sunderland: The Adventure Begins Brainaid Brad Butterworth Disabled Sailors Geoff Holt Hilary Lister Jessica Watson Jessica Watson: [...]

Over a bottle of Inner Circle rum, they looked at the drawings of the wooden boat soon to be built by Greg Elliot and hatched a plan to make a mould from it, good enough for about five boats, which Roger thought he could sell reasonably easily, one of course to themselves. They persuaded the [...]

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Greetings, If this is your first visit to Yachtyakka, I have a few helpful tips about how to navigate. Yachtyakka is a collection of yachting stories from around the world and around the corner. There is a lot of New Zealand content and stories that Kiwi yachties like to read. The pictures are headlines for [...]

Welcome to: Off The Wire club & news updates as they come in. updated often Audi MedCup ~ Cartagena TP 52-Med Cup Update, Cartagena Paul Cayard Saturday, August 30, 2008 After a one hour delay onshore, the?first race of the day got underway at 1415.? Today was different than all the other days from a [...]

Mid 80’s, Its about 4 o’clock, Wednesday, I’m just finishing a few jobs before heading down to Westhaven, phone goes, Its Ray. “Not going today, too busy, sorry for the late notice.” Bugger, not going for a yacht. Well I am! I remember this day like it was yesterday. Funny how you remember things that [...]

Part 2 Jim also designed launches: Cats Cruising Yachts …and Trailer Yachts Aaron Young Aaron, is the oldest of two brothers, the younger Stephen works at Southern Spars as a design engineer. Although I was on boats from age 1 my first real memory was when Jim was racing boats of his own through the [...]