Ethel – John Street again!
The Logan brothers would be amused to look out on the Waitemata Harbour today, 109 years after they closed their yard in Mechanics Bay, to see a very high proportion of the yachts they built not only still in existence but also sailing competitively.
In less than 20 years of production during the Golden Age of our yachting history, the brothers provided Auckland with a stock of keel yachts that has been cherished and made to last well beyond the international norm in the Kiwi No.8 fencing wire tradition of the sometimes hard times since.
Street has chosen the Logan Bros yacht as his latest project. They built her for Colonel Herbert Dawson of Great Mercury Island and launched her in late 1896. of 14th November 1896 had this to say:
