Ida sails again
Designed and built by Chas Bailey Jnr in 1895, Ida was conceived as a speed machine – a serious competitor to the ‘gun’ vessels racing around the Waitemata before the turn of the last century – and by all accounts she was very successful. Anecdotal evidence records many complaints from her competitors – “tired of seeing her backside up ahead.”
Her restoration at the hand of Stillwater’s Wayne Olsen (a seasoned veteran of
