
You probably did not notice it but the orientation of the boat in the waitemata woodys masthead has changed from left to right. One of the waitemata woody followers, Chris Leech, ex. commodore of the Devonport Yacht Club & CYA NZ committee member is a bit of a stickler for tradition & pointed out to me that it is tradition that all images, sketches of boats are shown with the bow to the
right.
For your interest the boat (35′ cruising launch) is off the design board of legend NZ designer / builder Percy Vos. To the best of my knowledge it did not get any further than the design stage which is a pity as she would have been a rather fine vessel.
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Surely this is DIONE, built by Vos for Frank Seccombe?
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While “dressing to the right” was/is the conventional way, several noted designers, e.g. Henry Gruber, Starling Burgess, normally “dressed to the left”. Some, like Maurice Grifith designed either way.
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