Shakin’ em up since sailing began

The regular (Eurocentric) history of sailing fast boats says that everything changed with the advent of the first planing monohulls, designed by Uffa Fox in England in 1928.

But see this – here’s a picture of Kahurangi, a Patiki Class pointy scow, a unique New Zealand development class, doing exactly that (probably faster) decades before in the inner harbour at Napier.

This picture is imperfectly dated, but it is well before 1928.

For further proof, there’s the fact that was photographed in the Napier Sailing Club’s previous waters of the inner harbour. That was before this large expanse of estuary was lifted out of sight in the February 1931