High Tide - Nautical New Zealanders, Their Boats and Their Stories

Harper Collins, 2002. Previous owner's name inside, binding of last section is poor.

With so much coastline, it was almost inevitable that New Zealand would spawn a nation of sailors. People like Danny, who, aged four, virtually moved aboard his rubber dinghy; aged eight, taught himself to sail a trimaran, and aged twelve bought a near-derelict Hartley 16 and restored it. Also featured is Duncan and his trimaran,Krisis, which won the first Coastal Classic in 1982. Much slower, but no less interesting, is Destiny, a pirate ship that runs on waste canola oil collected from takeaway outlets.