meet the designer

Say hi to Peter - designer of the Rocna, this sea-dog has been building, racing, and cruising sailing yachts since the early 1960's. In 1978, Peter walked away from his successful yacht production company Cavalier Yachts in New Zealand to go cruising with his wife Josephine. Twenty-seven years and 100,000 nautical miles later, he is back in Auckland and preparing to cruise Chile and Antarctica in the near future.

During their period away, Peter and Jo (who is both a New Zealand and British registered nurse) spent some six years cruising the south-west Pacific onboard their Cavalier 39 Apteryx. They spent time in Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Borneo, amongst others, before selling Apteryx in Brunei in 1985.

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