Bob Vine, Aotearoa New Zealand

Welcome – I’m Bob, and this website is a place to gather the threads of a life well lived.

Over the years I have worn many hats – through career, family, sport, and a deep interest in genealogy. Each has shaped who I am, and each continues to provide stories worth sharing. This site brings those strands together in one place.

Here you will find reflections on my working life, memories and milestones from family, thoughts on the sports that have inspired me, and explorations into the people and histories that came before us. I am also gradually adding chapters from MY Life – a book to be written piece by piece, with new sections appearing as they are completed.

Think of this as an open journal – part memoir. part record, part conversation.

I’m glad you are here.

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  • Star Legends “Day with Duncan”

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    Saturday 3 November 2018 On this day Star Legends Bob Joyce, John Spooner, Richard Prince, Laurie Sunde and Bob Vine joined in Rotorua to celebrate 81 years young Duncan Cameron’s long and active dedication to our sport of Rowing. Apologies had been received from:Geoff Fellows with the comment that Duncan was one of the two…

  • Star Boating Club: Annual Reports 1958-1962, 1974 & 1967

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    Annual Reports 1958 – 1962, 1967 & 1974  

  • Youth Fours & Eights: National Championship Winners 1963

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    I continue my series of Blogs relating some of the history of the Star Boating Club, Wellington established in 1866. The Club is celebrating its 150th Anniversary, 2 – 4 September next, and invites members, former and current, their partners, families and friends of the Club to join in the fun. This Blog relates to Star’s…

  • Star Boating Club and the Wars

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    I continue my series of Blogs relating some of the history of the Star Boating Club, Wellington established in 1866. With the many commemorative events related to Wars where many Star members participated, it would be most proper to “Remember Them” on the occasion of our 150th Anniversary. The New Zealand Wars, 1845 to 1872: The only apparent…

  • “Clubhouses on the Move”.

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    Foundation of the Star Boating Club, 1866/1867: In this Blog I outline the history of the establishment of the Star Boating Club and the Clubhouses and sites occupied from the first in 1867. In opening I have sought to clarify Star’s actual founding date. One finds this most often cited as 1866. In fact here we…

  • Star Boating Club -150th Anniversary – Some Research

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    Reference Blog #4 featuring the Senior Star Eight at Picton, 2 January 1961 – there was the question of who was the Coxswain? I am pleased to announce we now have an answer. Full marks to Malcolm Bridge who recognised the lad as Gerard Guthrie with 50% to Warwick Armstrong whose powerful memory gave us this: “I’ve just…

  • 150th Anniversary – Some notes

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    Blackballing: “The Alleged Black-Balling Combination” Today many of the Club’s Members will not have knowledge of the practice of “Black Balling”. I am linking an extract from the Evening Post recording proceedings at the Club’s 21st Annual General Meeting which will explain. The practice was the domain of the elite clubs in the UK, and it is…

  • 150th Anniversary – More History

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    This year the Star Boating Club, Wellington, New Zealand celebrates 150 years of rowing. Star is the eldest living sports club in Wellington, and we think the third eldest in the Country. For this Blog, the 4th in a series covering the history, personalities, snapshots and memories of the past, I am setting up a Gallery…

  • 150th Anniversary – Dignitaries from the past

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    STAR BOATING CLUB -1866 to 2016   Early this week I spent a day at the Alexander Turnbull Library. You can imagine my surprise at a search “star boating club” bringing up 44,225 results made up of: Newspapers (43,935), Images (150), Manuscripts (89), Other (31), Groups (24), Audio (6), Books (6), Journals (5) and Music Score (3). For this mind-boggling figure we must thank…

  • Club and Connections with the Maadi Cup

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    In this Blog I follow on from Jack Morgan’s story about his Rowing opportunity on the Nile with the Cairo River Rowing Club. The Cairo River Rowing Club hosted Kiwi oarsmen of the Second NZEF during the Second World War with regular competition between them and Maadi Camp Rowing Club. The Cairo Club allowed our…