Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

Sailing
Traditional careening Print E-mail

ImageMy stroke made it impossible for me to keep the bottom of Nova clean. When I finally careened her on the beach at Karaka Bay, on 22 April 2008, she sported the best collection of mussels you would ever see on a boat anywhere.

 

 

 

 

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Rona 1892 Print E-mail
ImageI had been invited to be keynote speaker for Architecture Week in Nelson. Graeme insisted there should be something in it for me. I opted for a day sailing around Golden Bay on the Rona, one of New Zealand's most beautiful yachts.
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Swooper Print E-mail
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Ponui
Yachties spend more time cleaning the bottom of their boats than sailing, but on the right day in the right place one is as pleasant as the other.
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To hell and back Print E-mail
ImageNova Caprice at anchor in the crater of an active volcano. White Island.
 
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