This fascinating 328 page illustrated and thoroughly indexed book is the extensively revised and expanded edition of an earlier book by Fred Westrupp - an accomplished sailor, businessman and researcher. All were able to load and discharge cargoes on beaches and in estuaries. known as hookers, and were often built on beaches using timber hewn from the bush. The earliest of these seagoing little ships - some as small as 30 feet - were affectionately. Blind Bay Hookers: The Little Ships of Early Nelson, and Colonial Times (Trade Paperback / Paperback)įrom 1841 to 1925, central New Zealand's Blind Bay (now Tasman Bay) was the hub of a "mosquito fleet" plying local waters as well as he challenging seas of Cook Strait and the West Coast.
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