Pastime meets Mascotte
VINTAGE VIEW
Canterbury yachting was entering a golden age. The crack yachts which drew the thousands of spectators (and punters) to Lyttelton and many hundreds to Akaroa at Regatta time for the next three years were Pastime, Fleetwing, Little Wonder, and the Dunedin-built yachts Zephyr and Mahanga.
T.S. Baker of Akaroa now owned Zephyr (built by H. T. Green in 1878). She was typical of Green’s slippery, relatively light displacement yachts. C.J. Black of Akaroa bought Mahanga from Dunedin in November 1887. She had been built as Clementina by John McLellan in 1884, in the Green style, and had a great Otago reputation already. One by one, Pastime managed to pick them off.
Over the winter of 1887 Malcolm Miller debated whether amidships; he probably replanked her in the process for there are no butts.
