Rarotonga
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A New Schooner for Rarotonga
ONE of the Cook Islands’ best-known traders, Mr. D. C. Brown, recently purchased the 102 ft. schooner “Tahltienne” in Auckland. The schooner is still at the Harbour Board slips there, waiting delivery of a new diesel engine.
When that is installed she will sail for Rarotonga.
“Tahitienne” has been used as a plea sure yacht for the last six years; her extremely high masts are a well-known sight in Auckland waters. She was built op the Pacific coast of America, about 1923 for a retired American master mariner who intended to use her for pri vate cruising. He died, however before she was completed and the hull was bought by S. R. Maxwell & Co., well known planting and trading firm in the Eastern Pacific.
She sailed there as an inter-island trad ing vessel under the French flag for some years, but as a result of slackening trade was laid up in Papeete and finally brought to Auckland for disposal.
Those were dull days in the boat mar ket, and no buyers came forward “Tahitienne” was put up for auction and knocked down to a syndicate of Jugo slavs for £l5O. They intended fitting her out as a fishing boat, but found her un suitable.
She was again laid un and remained so until purchased by Mr. A. Donald, of Herne Bay, as a pleasure cruiser.
“Tahitienne,” known locally as New Zealand’s largest pleasure craft, has par ticularly fine lines, and will make an interesting addition to Rarotonga’s trad ing fleet.