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Although there are several open boats and centreboarders, both fishing boats and pleasure boats, surviving from the pre-1900 era, Aorere is believed to be the oldest surviving keel yacht both designed and constructed in Australia.
Aorere is typical of the yacht designs of the 1890's. Along with Akarana, Waitangi and Sayonara (shown above), she is among the last of the deep, narrow, heavy displacement yachts of the late Victorian period, with yachts built only a year or two later being radically different in design. Only a handful of these classics survive in Australia. Of these, several originated in New Zealand, being built by Logan or Bailey.
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