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		July 2001
		The One Rater / Patiki type *Mercia, designed by Robert Logan (1898) and (inset) the clinker-built One Rater Maika Maili*, imported from the USA in 1890's.			Nothing new under the sun Dear Sir I am always pleased to read Frank Bethwaite and it is interesting to see his comments about planing dinghies in New Zealand in the mid to late 1930s - ahead of Uffa Fox. But Frank should also know, being an expat Kiwi, that planing boats were doing the thing here at the turn of the 20^th century... New Zealand crews who sailed on indigenous Patiki centreboarders, a design dating back to the 1890s, found it difficult to convince others of this planing yacht’s true performance. The boat was many years ahead of its time but, like the Mullet boat, owed something to the American skimming dishes and also to the Dixon-Kemp rating rule boats. Aucklander Ray Grant remembers his father John being considered far-fetched when he talked of fast sailing experiences aboard Maika Maili and Ngaroma, top Manukau Harbour Patikis. John Grant first stepped aboard Maika Maili as a bailerboy when he was 10. Maika was a 28ft clinker-built One Rater that arrived here on a ship from the USA in the 1890s - and became famous when it was timed planing at a steady 13 knots. She was top boat on the Manukau until the 1904 Logan-designed 24ft Ngaroma appeared. For the full version of this feature please go to the July 2001 edition of Seahorse International Sailing....
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