Kaupapa Waka Rererangi a Taylor Coot 2014
I te tau 2014, i tīmatahia e ngā ākonga o te Kura o Mercury Bay Area tētahi atu kaupapa rererangi, i raro anō i te arataki a ngā mema o te hapori o te rohe.
Ko te kaupapa hou ko te whakaora i tētahi waka rererangi amphibian Taylor-Coot, ā, he rerekē rawa atu i te hanganga o te VANZ RV12 hou i oti i te kura i tērā tau.
Ko te kaupapa Taylor-Coot he hua tika nō te kaupapa RV12. Nā Martin Farrand te waka rererangi i koha, he hoa nō Alan Coubray, he mema nō te Mercury Bay Aero Club, ā, ko ia te pailate whakamātautau o te RV12. I haere tētahi rōpū kaiārahi i arahina e Jim Evans ki Kaipara Flats, i wetewete i ngā parirau, ā, i kawe mai i te waka rererangi ki Whitianga.
Kua whakatūria e MBAS me te Mercury Bay Aero Club te Mercury Bay Student Aviation Trust, ā, ko te mahere kia riro i tēnei Trust te Taylor-Coot, ā, kia hokona atu ina oti te whakahou. E matapaetia ana ka nui te moni whiwhi a te waka rererangi amphibian hei hoko i tētahi atu RV12, i tētahi atu kete rite rānei, mō tētahi atu hanganga hou.
He tino whakahihiri ēnei whanaketanga hou katoa, ā, e tuku ana i te whai wāhitanga ki te ako hangarau rererangi, ki te ako rererangi rānei hei huarahi tonu mā ngā ākonga e haere ana ki te MBAS.
"I tēnei wā, ka taea e ngā ākonga e whai wāhi ana ki ā mātou kaupapa rererangi te whiwhi whiwhinga NCEA Taumata 1 mā te kaupapa whakarite mahi a Gateway. Mena ka taea e mātou te whai kaupapa rererangi tonu, ko te tumanako ka kukume mai i ngā ākonga mai i tawhiti. He mea tino motuhake tēnei mā mātou i ngā kura maha atu, ehara i te mea i Aotearoa anake, engari i te ao katoa. Ka tāpiri atu hoki ki ā mātou whānuitanga o ngā whai wāhitanga ako ahurei, pērā i ā mātou kura moana me te pūtaiao moana, te mātauranga o waho me ngā akoranga māra." Ko Karlos Bosson, te kaiako e whakahaere ana i te kaupapa rererangi.
Ko tētahi o ngā wāhanga matua o te angitu o te kaupapa RV12 ko te whai wāhi mai o ngā mema o te hapori i ārahi i ngā ākonga, i mahi hoki hei kaiārahi mō rātou, ā, nā te angitu o te RV12 i puta ai ngā huarahi mai i ētahi atu tāngata ehara i te hunga kaiārahi RV12, engari he hunga e hiahia ana ki te āwhina.
Ko te Taylor-Coot e whakahoutia ana kua rēhitatia ko ZK-ECL. I hangaia ki Aotearoa i te tau 1975. I whakawhiti ringa i te tau 1991, ā, i riro mai i a Martin tōna rangatira i te tau 2004. He hoahoa parirau iti te waka rererangi, ā, he waka rererangi pumau, kāore pea e tahuri i te wā e rere atu ana, e tau ana rānei.