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SMOKIE is a delightful 31 foot sloop based at the Mana Cruising Club
on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand, just north
of Wellington City.
Designed and built by Alistair Dickson of Nelson, SMOKIE was launched
in 1979 and spent her first few years racing and cruising the waters
of Tasman Bay, on the northern shores of the South Island. A change
of ownership took the little sloop across the Cook Strait to the Paremata
Inlet and the Mana Cruising Club marina.
The painting portrays SMOKIE at the end of a holiday weekend of cruising
the Marlborough Sounds beginning her crossing of Cook Strait, 'homeward
bound'. |
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© 2007 Jim Bolland – All rights reserved
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