Boating NZ

YEAR OF THE RAT

Owner Rob Clifton bought the Townson Pied Piper six months ago for $3,000 from Waiheke Island in a Trade Me auction. “We took two days to get her back to the Bay of Islands,” he recalls. “Piedy sailors have a reputation for being bit of a rowdy bunch – and we did our best to live up to it.”

The little keeler came out of the water for antifouling and keel

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