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dates unverified · Auckland, New Zealand

Bert Woollacott

Yacht designer — New Zealand

A prominent New Zealand designer of the interwar years. Vectis, a 1929 kauri-planked keeler described as probably the first Woollacott keeler built in New Zealand, is now on San Francisco Bay.

Vectis
31-ft keeler, 1929, kauri planking with mahogany coamings, originally masthead cutter rigged
Build
Registered to the builder Percy Vos; other accounts credit the build to Woollacott himself — the New Zealand sources disagree
Now
Vectis resides on San Francisco Bay
  • 1929Vectis — 31-ft kauri keeler
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
  • Whether Percy Vos or Woollacott built Vectis is unresolved in the New Zealand sources themselves.
  • Region is provisional — New Zealand is not yet a region in this atlas.

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