Our triple skin Kauri, launched 1984, designed and built by New Zealander John Lidgard, fractional rigged sloop Runaway Bay often gets taken for a “plastic” boat. She is lovely to sail and has done us well over the last 10 years.

IDA was built by the Bailey Bros in New Zealand in 1895 & was originally owned by the Commodore of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Club in Auckland. She has a triple planked Kauri hull and still possesses her gaff rigged configuration.

Between 1690 and 1900, flat-bottomed cargo barges called gundalows dominated the waters of the Piscataqua region. Captain Edward H. Adams (1860–1950), the builder and captain of the Fanny M, the last commercial gundalow, worked hard to generate concern about the health of Great Bay Estuary.