Tino Rawa Trust

😍 Good luck to everyone in Whangarei this weekend

It has been 90 years since their last race and so on a blustery afternoon in Hobart, Ngataki and Te Rapunga departed from the docks at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival and headed for the start line. The race was tense and exciting with the lead changing four times. On the final leg to the finish, both boats alongside each other, wing and wing, crews looking for any advantage, it was perhaps fitting that they crossed the finish line at the same time. A dead heat.
Rafted up alongside each other in Constitution Dock the crew exchanged flags, burgees and crew uniforms. And we toasted Johnny Wray and George Dibbern. What a day.

Day 2 of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival and we are experiencing an amazing response to our onland exhibition and to Ngataki.

We are very happy with large crowds interested in Tino Rawa and the Ngataki / Te Rapunga story.

A Symposium presentation today and the astonishing race between the two boats after 90 years.

👋 Michelle and Tones

Meet Paul Stephanus. This is the guy that made it possible for the Tino Rawa Trust to join the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Hobart this week. His vision and course has been steadfast.

Ngataki is sitting in the Prince of Wales Marina (Johnny Wray knows where that is!) ready for her mast to be stepped on Monday. Our team of Tai Smyth and Neil Morris (Johnny Wray Coffee) roll in to town on Sunday.

The rest of us arrive on Wed to unwrap our on land exhibition (pictured) with our beautiful 1930 PClass, the Silver Fern, a Frostbite and the Trust’s 1902 Logan, Otira.

A lot of planning, amazing support from the boat owners, fund raising (thank you Mike Mahoney, ABD Group, Forbes Packing, Peter Parken and others) and the challenges at the border. We always believed in this exhibition. Look forward to sharing this with you guys.

The Kiwis are coming!

https://australianwoodenboatfestival.com.au/

We are ready!

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