58' Logan A-Class Cutter (1897) - THELMA

Thelma’s trip around the world took place by stages and took most of a century, with stops at Tahiti, Hawaii, San Francisco, Florida, here in St. Tropez, and, finally, back home to New Zealand where she received a final upgrade and now sails as the largest of the surviving Logan-built boats—all put together with three-skin (two diagonal and one fore-and-aft) hulls of long-lived kauri. By building triple-skinned lifeboats in his native Scotland and observing the designs of Fife and Watson, Robert Logan brought refined hull shapes and construction techniques to New Zealand when he landed there with his family in 1874. He and his three sons became premiere yachtbuilders until they closed the shop in 1914.