Boating New Zealand - May 2018

24 Boating New Zealand

WORDS BY LAWRENCE SCHÄFFLER

PHOTOGRAPHY BY

LAWRENCE SCHÄFFLER

AND MARCEL TOUNG

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Restoration

Nearly 10,000 miles from where she was

built, a svelte, 69-year-old American beauty

is turning heads on Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf,

her new home. Her journey here – and her

restoration – is an improbable story.

THE LADY