It thus retired the cup.

Wellington yacht atalanta. Wellington Yacht Partners LLC One Maritime Drive. The Trust was created in August 2010 in response to the risk of destruction of the historic Wellington yacht Lizzie after her abandonment in Auckland. ATALANTA is a comfortable shoal draft cruising vessel with outstanding passagemaking performance.

WCYT focuses on the rescue. To date she has had just three owners all of whom have been generous in their commitment to keep her in truly first-class condition. Wellington Yacht Partners is an established yacht brokerage firm consisting of nine brokers with an average tenure of over thirty years in the industry.

Flattie was the term applied to the hard-chined centreboard boats which in New Zealand were first developed in Wellington from about 1900 and taken up nation-wide through the 1920s through the rest of the 20th Century. Lizzie is a 22-foot sloop built by Ted Bailey at Balaena Bay. Now largely forgoten they were the parent of the I P Y and V classes.

Launched in February 1909 she is the oldest surviving Wellington-built racing yacht. The text accompanying are their captions as written in the album. Atalanta has a long and proud history in Wellington waters.

A trust document was drawn up and signed by. These images are a selection from a photo album which belonged to A. Jack Petherick who owned Rona from 1909 - 191920.

About the Wellington Classic Yacht Trust WCYT was set up in 2010 in response to the situation of the Lizzie which had sunk at her moorings in Auckland due to neglect. Both the Pet and Atalanta were later converted to keel yachts to stiffen them up for Wellingtons often blustery conditions. Shes one of those boats that turns heads wherever she goes.