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50th Anniverary Dinner & Book Launch

The h28 Yacht Owners Association will be holding a Gala Dinner on Saturday, 17 August 2024, at the Milford Crusiing Club. The evening will have a 70s theme, and there will not only be a gala dinner and raffle prizes, but also guest speaker Penny Whiting MBE, live...

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A Team Effort

It was still early, around 7am, when I started Liffey's engine and pulled up the anchor at Elephant Cove on Happy Jack Island preparing to head back to Liffey's mooring on the Tamaki River. Diane and I had been cruising the Western Coromandel for seven days in the...

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Getting Married on an H28

We sailed up from Tauranga on Christmas day to Mercury cove and stayed until new year. We then sailed into Whitianga marina where we got married on the on the bow of our H28 ‘Priority’ on the 2nd of Jan 2009.The marriage celebrant that we had also had an H28 in the...

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Dave Bateman aboard Kakahi

I caught up with the delivery skipper and another crew member at Auckland's West Harbour marina the next day. There was a buzz of activity aboard the H28 'Kakahi'. The Australian owner had recently purchased 'Kakahi' and she had been given a complete 'birthday' with...

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