The collection below are digitised images of a collection of lantern slides in the Wellington Museum of City and Sea (now Museums Wellington) collection. The digitisation was done by Claire Viscovic using Alexander Turnbull Library equipment. Grateful acknowledgement to David Waller of the Museum of Wellington City and Sea and David Adams and Claire Viscovic of the Alexander Turnbull Library.
The vast majority are taken between 1911 and 1914.
Notable are the "flatties". "Flattie" was the term applied to the hard-chined centreboard boats which in New Zealand, were first developed in Wellington from about 1900, and taken up nation-wide through the 1920s through the rest of the 20th Century. Now largely forgotten, they were the parent of the I, P, Y, and V classes. The "Sea Wren" type is informally applied. They were inspired by a design of that name published in The Rudder magazine.
KEELBOATS
Ailsa
Akitea
Amai and Lizzie
Atalanta
Ethel
Iolanthe
Iolanthe, Taipare, Donker (Nancy Stair)
Janet
Kotiri
Lizzie
Mahina
Mahina and Siren
Mahaki
Muritai (Rogue)
Nancy Stair
Nanonya
Naval cutter
Ngarau?
Nikau
Rawene
Rona
Ruihi
Taipare
Tangaroa
Viking
Wairere
Wairere II
Waitangi
White Heather
White Heather and Windward
White Wings
Windward
Windward and Taipare
Wylo
Xarifa
Xarifa and Thetis
Unknown
Unknown - probably Rawene
14 FOOT CENTREBOARDERS: FLATTIES AND SEA WREN TYPES
FLATTIES
Geisha
Geisha and other flatties
Nan
SEA WREN TYPES
Harrier
Tom Wilford
OTHER
Thorndon Dinghy Club
Capsizes
Not Wellington: Santanita and Valkyrie racing on the Solent, UK. A race for 100 pounds some time in the 1890s
