51. OOSTERSCHELDE leads EUROPA along the Rangitoto Channel as they leave Auckland. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9300
52. YOUNG ENDEAVOUR (left) JANE GIFFORD (centre), EUROPA and Oosterschelde accompanied by a large farewell flotilla make their way along the Rangitoto Channel offshore from Takapuna as the tall ships... Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9301
53. YOUNF ENDEAVOUR (Australia), a bicentennial gift to Australia from the UK, outbound from Auckland as she makes for home across the Tasman. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9302
54. LORD NELSON passes Milford Beach a she makes her way north offshore from Auckland's East Coast Bays. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9303
55. LORD NELSON passes Milford Beach a she makes her way north offshore from Auckland's East Coast Bays. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9304
56. LORD NELSON makes her way north offshore from Auckland's East Coast Bays, en-route to Wellington. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9305
57. YOUNG ENDEAVOUR (nearest camera) sounded a salute as she passed Jubilee Sailing Trust's LORD NELSON. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9306
58. LORD NELSON makes her way north offshore from Auckland's East Coast Bays, en-route to Wellington as sightseers aboard Fullers ferry ADVENTURER take a close look of her. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9307
59. YOUNG ENDEAVOUR and R. TUCKER THOMPSON catch the breeze in the Rangitoto Channel outbound from Auckland. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9308
60. LORD NELSON sets sail as she leaves the Rangitoto Channel outbound from Auckland bound for Wellington. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9309
61. OOSTERSCHELDE passes the East Coast Bays, outbound from Auckland. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9310
62. EUROPA with almost all sails set, makes a fine sight as she powers northwards along Auckland's East Coast Bays. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9311
63. BREEZE, part of the fleet based at the Voyager Maritime Museum on Auckland's waterfront, passes the Polynesian waka HAUNUI off the East Coast Bays. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9312
64. LORD NELSON (r) with YOUNG ENDEAVOUR astern of her seen from the preserved steam tug WILLIAM C. DALDY. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9313
65. R. TUCKER THOMPSON with all sails set passes along the East Coast Bays of Auckland with the Skytower, 4-5kms distant, dominating the skyline. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9314
66. YOUNG ENDEAVOUR and R. TUCKER THOMPSON leading the tall ships OOSTERSCHELDE and EUROPA along the Rangitoto Channel past Auckland's East Coast Bays. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9315
67. BREEZE, part of the fleet based at the Voyager Maritime Museum in Auckland, heads back into port as PICTON CASTLE continues her outbound passage. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9316
68. SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND (IMO 8975603) and the yacht SEA HARMONY offshore from Auckland's East Coast Bays. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9317
69. JANE GIFFORD (a NZ flat bottomed scow) leads PICTON CASTLE past the East Coast Bays of Auckland. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9318
70. JANE GIFFORD (a NZ flat bottomed scow) leads PICTON CASTLE past the East Coast Bays of Auckland. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9319
71. EUROPA off Mairangi Bay and with the sun catching her sails passes PICTON CASTLE outbound from Auckland following the inaugural tall ships festival. Date: 28 October 2013 Image ID 9320
72. TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL, AUCKLAND - The fleet arrives en-masse in gusty conditions for the inaugural tall ships festival in Auckland. Seen here rounding North Head as they sail into the Waitemata Harbour... Date: 25 October 2013 Image ID 9236
73. TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL, AUCKLAND - The fleet arrives en-masse for the first ever tall ships festival in the City of Sails. Seen here, from left are the Jubilee Sailing Trust's LORD NELSON (UK, 1986, a... Date: 25 October 2013 Image ID 9237
74. TALL SHIPS FESTIVAL, AUCKLAND - The fleet arrives en-masse the parade headed by the Spirit of Adventure Trust's own SPIRIT OF NEW ZEALAND (IMO 8975603), a three masted barquentine (second from left).... Date: 25 October 2013 Image ID 9238