Frostbites & Christmas cruises
From the connections of the people and the boats shown, we figured out that the album belonged to Noel Edward Howe, the eldest son of Cyril and Annie Howe of 6 Hastings Parade, Devonport. Noel was born in 1924 and contracted polio, probably in the 1937 epidemic, which left him partially crippled.
He was nevertheless determined to compensate with vigour. He poured it into yachting and the companionship he had at Wakatere Boating Club, later with his younger brother Ken Howe, born in January 1935.
Among the most important of those connections in the pre-war years were boatbuilder Leonard Allan Waters known as ‘Snow’, Ron Hunt,
