Tino Rawa Trust

It has been 90 years since their last race and so on a blustery afternoon in Hobart, Ngataki and Te Rapunga departed from the docks at the Australian Wooden Boat Festival and headed for the start line. The race was tense and exciting with the lead changing four times. On the final leg to the finish, both boats alongside each other, wing and wing, crews looking for any advantage, it was perhaps fitting that they crossed the finish line at the same time. A dead heat.
Rafted up alongside each other in Constitution Dock the crew exchanged flags, burgees and crew uniforms. And we toasted Johnny Wray and George Dibbern. What a day.