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Article from the New Zealand Herald
28 August 2010: As Auckland merges to create a supercity, the Herald looks back at how Auckland has changed over the years.

His was a childhood encircled by boundless sea.

He had grown up in a Bayswater bungalow on the edge of the Waitemata Harbour, and spent his holidays camping next door to his grandparents' beach-side house at Mairangi Bay, or sailing with his family on one of their cruising boats.

At age seven, he helped his father build a P-Class, a pugnosed wooden dinghy in which he learned to sail. So far, so like many other Auckland kids.

Sir Peter Blake's upbringing on and around the sea was not unusual but his enthusiasm quickly swelled from Auckland's sheltered waters to the
vast oceans beyond.