JACK’S NEW TACK
Jerking restlessly at her mooring in Putiki Bay, Matari looks like an exotic seabird ready to migrate. Long, lean, double-ended and three-masted, she has the look of a purposeful ocean cruiser.
A few hundred metres up the road on Waiheke island, her owner and long-time skipper, Jack Hargraves, opens the door to his house and he has the same look. His eyes have the clear, faraway look of a man who has spent much of his life scanning the horizon and he has the slightly braced stance that comes from moving across dancing decks.
“I sighted on the hard at Salthouse’s in 1981,” he recalls. “A
