Boats

Maatakiwi Wakefield talks to Wallace about building boats, called mogi, from reeds. They're under construction at Te Matatini. Audio

Four children are lucky to be alive after trying to cross Nelson harbour in a blow-up boat, triggering a major rescue Audio

Peter Hardy has an odd uniform - a full Edwardian costume which he dons daily to impersonate Alexander Hatrick, who amongst other pursuits owned a fleet of boats on the Whanganui River and was mayor… Audio

Rex Bright chats to Simon Mercep about the Echo, a sailing vessel used to move food and supplies between Blenheim and Wellington for several decades. Audio

Caesar Roose was born in 1886 on an island in the Waikato River, opposite the railway town of Mercer. At the age of eighteen, he launched his first commercial boat and for the next 60-years Roose… Audio

One hundred years since the hull of the TSS Earnslaw – also known as the Lady of the Lake – was launched in Kingston. Audio