Gaffrig Productions making maritime history

Gaffrig Productions

Phone: 021 953 901

Email: rick@gaffrig.co.nz

Rick Allender is a New Zealand born cinematographer and has worked on every type of production in New Zealand and overseas. He has a long association with sailing, starting in Sydney, Australia where he learnt to sail in Sabots and Moths. As both ardent sailor and writer, he has published in Cruising World (USA), Cruising Helmsman (Aust) and Practical Boat Owner (UK).

Diane Brand
BArch (Hons), MArch UD Harvard, PhD, NZIA, RAIA
Diane researches and writes for Gaffrig Productions. She has practiced as an architect in Australia and New Zealand for over 20 years, working for some of the regions best known architects. Since 1993 she has combined teaching and practice, with full time teaching posts at the University of Adelaide, University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. Her practice work includes (in collaboration with others) the competition winning Viaduct Harbour in Auckland's America's Cup Village. Diane has published extensively in international journals of urban design.

Stormbird was designed and built by Gotfred (Pop) Jorgensen in Waikawa Bay, Picton, New Zealand and was launched in 1981. Pop emigrated from Denmark to New Zealand in 1955 and over the years, with his son Finn, established a boatbuilding business with a reputation for building strong, high quality timber boats. Designed along traditional Danish lines Stormbird is flush decked, canoe sterned and has a stepped sheer line. She was built over seven years during Pop's retirement, with the view to coastal and Pacific cruising for he and his wife Phyllis. His love of boat building is clearly evident in Stormbird's mature lines and details. Rick purchased Stormbird from Finn's widow, Natalie, in 1999 and brought her to Auckland. She is unmodified from her original plans. A cutter rigged bermudian sloop, she carries her original sail configuration and timber mast. Stormbird has teak decks. Her hull is framed in Karri and planked with New Zealand kauri.
LOA: 36'5'' Beam: 10'8" Draught: 5'9"

	Gaffrig Productions Phone: 021 953 901 Email: rick@gaffrig.co.nz Rick Allender is a New Zealand born cinematographer and has worked on every type of production in New Zealand and overseas. He has a long association with sailing, starting in Sydney, Australia where he learnt to sail in Sabots and Moths. As both ardent sailor and writer, he has published in Cruising World (USA), Cruising Helmsman (Aust) and Practical Boat Owner (UK). Diane Brand BArch (Hons), MArch UD Harvard, PhD, NZIA, RAIA Diane researches and writes for Gaffrig Productions. She has practiced as an architect in Australia and New Zealand for over 20 years, working for some of the regions best known architects. Since 1993 she has combined teaching and practice, with full time teaching posts at the University of Adelaide, University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. Her practice work includes (in collaboration with others) the competition winning Viaduct Harbour in Auckland's America's Cup Village. Diane has published extensively in international journals of urban design. Stormbird was designed and built by Gotfred (Pop) Jorgensen in Waikawa Bay, Picton, New Zealand and was launched in 1981. Pop emigrated from Denmark to New Zealand in 1955 and over the years, with his son Finn, established a boatbuilding business with a reputation for building strong, high quality timber boats. Designed along traditional Danish lines Stormbird is flush decked, canoe sterned and has a stepped sheer line. She was built over seven years during Pop's retirement, with the view to coastal and Pacific cruising for he and his wife Phyllis. His love of boat building is clearly evident in Stormbird's mature lines and details. Rick purchased Stormbird from Finn's widow, Natalie, in 1999 and brought her to Auckland. She is unmodified from her original plans. A cutter rigged bermudian sloop, she carries her original sail configuration and timber mast. Stormbird has teak decks. Her hull is framed in Karri and planked with New Zealand kauri. LOA: 36'5'' Beam: 10'8" Draught: 5'9"
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