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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Category: Rowing

  • Jack Morgan’s WWII Story

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    The Star Boating Club, Wellington, New Zealand, this year, is celebrating its 150th Anniversary. Star is the oldest living sports club in Wellington and research has revealed that it most probably is the third oldest in the Country. This Blog is the first in a series of Stories about the Club and its Members and is…

  • Christmas 2014: Greetings from Judy & Bob’s Place

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    After much procrastination I am diverting myself from all the mundane thoughts used as excuses for delay and getting on with putting together some of the events of another big year to “share” with family and friends. Apologies for the delay in offering our love and best wishes for the New Year, but as they…

  • Pam Dixon’s Double Crossing of Cook Strait in Carboglass Recreational Single Scull

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    This blog relates a recreational single scull manufactured by Carboglass Mouldings at Peterkin Street, Wingate Lower Hutt (Viv Haar). It has images from Pam Dixon’s 7 hours and 51 minutes enduring and conquering the turbulent waters of Cook Strait which separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Click here to view the scene…

  • Gael Ansell, a Star Boating Club Legend

    Gael Ansell, a Star Boating Club Legend

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    Star BC Legend Conway Ansell emailed me yesterday (June 2014) with the sad news that brother Gael had passed away. “Picking up an old email and thought with all your contacts you could let all know that my brother Gael passed away at 4.30 this morning after losing the battle with the dreaded cancer. Just…

  • Genealogy Study Tour UK 2013

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    This is a heads-up as to my activities for the next 4 weeks. Over this period I shall be blogging with a view to keeping family informed of my adventures and finds, to extend my research network and optimise my use of the social media to form collaborations to build my Family Tree with reliable…