RAINBOW SHINES AGAIN
May 29, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS BY LAWRENCE SCHÄFFLER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALAN SEFTON AND LAWRENCE SCHÄFFLER
This July marks the 50th anniversary of two extraordinary events that electrified New Zealanders: man landed on the moon – and a nondescript Auckland sloop won the One Ton Cup in Germany’s Heligoland. Both events featured on the front page of the Auckland Star’s first edition on Monday 21 July, 1969.
It’s hard to overstate the impact of the little sloop’s achievement on Kiwi sailing. She not only
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