Pacific
Designed / built by Joe Slattery in 1917. One of the boats on my bucket list, can not visit Gulf Harbour marina without walking past her 🙂
Hopefully the current owner, Grant Burrell, great grandson of her 1st owner will drop in here with some more details.
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c.1955 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5d449FB9o
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Also Alan- from ‘memory’ the tank on the rear wheelhouse bulkhead; I wasn’t allowed near as a child as it was too hot (coolant). The header tank is starboard wheelhouse with a hand pump and funnel beside. The Lister is still fitted and has a distinctive drone with the short, side exit exhaust.
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Built in 1917 to replace a smaller launch that my Great-Great Grandfather Everard Hobbs owned, Pacific was used to transport melons and pumpkins to the Auckland markets from the family farm and also to tow livestock on a barge (hauled up on the beach until 10 or so years ago) to and from Tiritiri Matangi which was leased. She was kept on a mooring and as a form of ‘hauling out’ was allowed to go dry at low tide in the shallows of Hobbs Bay. Owned by Everard Hobbs, passed to ‘Jack’ Hobbs, then to Warwick Burrell when Jack had Kotanui (twin diesel Salthouse) built in 1964 and most recently in the early ’90’s to Grant Burrell from his father and my Grandfather Warwick.
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Yes Alan, one of my favorites as well. Grant keeps her in very original and uncluttered form. She is or was powered by a Freedom range Lister. You can still see the genuine Lister fuel header tank on the rear wheel house bulkhead. Quite a nice feature by it’s self.
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