A message from the owner of MV Luana
Interested Woodyboaters….
Time to step back and think about what we have here. We have developed here a fantastic new site [Thanks Alan], that unfortunately is full of the usual errors we all are aware of.
What is our common sense of purpose?
That is to foster interest and knowledge based around the fabulous resource of classic boats we have inherited in New Zealand. We must encourage more entries but we must seek accuracy. Unfortunately when we seek and receive knowledge from fading memories we gain heresay and conjecture.
Please let us encourage more input and once gained let us separate fact from fiction.
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I Would like to support the owner of the above re his comments on the website & add a little more if I may.
1. I absolutely concur that we should all put whatever input we can, in to making everything noted therein, to be an entertaining read, as first & most important item.
2. We should naturally of course strive for accuracy in all we write. However in so saying, because of the very nature of our subject & the need to delve on to the depths of our memories there is no doubt at times that we will all, (or almost all), accidentally “get it wrong.” I would also say however, that there is nothing wrong with this — I do not see it as a problem, because if somebody else has proof, or very sound & convincing information that the facts are different to what has previously been stated, than it will help the original writer as well as everybody else because without the original input, the corrected data may never have been known by us all.
3.I Have personally in just the last few weeks, learnt a great deal about many boats & their histories & owners & had my own knowledge corrected & added to. I am always very happy as we all should be to be proved wrong
43. Whilst as we all agree, there should always be the desire for accuracy in reporting the past as above, I equally believe that there should also be the opportunity for writers to contribute on the basis of phrasing such as.
“The vessel was approximately ??? feet,” or perhaps, “as I recall her engine may have been a ???, or “she appears to have been built circa 19??”.
Comments of this nature I believe should be encouraged, as I personally have already jelled the recall of others to comments I have made along these lines, — ( see Karamama II as an example) & I have had my own horizons broadened, corrected, & added to, wonderfully by others, whom I believe would never have contributed without my initial input.
As long as one is careful to make it clear that one is stating a “possibility” or “probability” not a fact as I said this then allows a writing to be confirmed as fact, or corrected by others..
I will shortly be doing a writing on the “Winsome II” I will make comments therein, which are based on my recall of her, & may be correct, & if not & will be delighted to learn & have my comments added to. I will be very careful to state fact or possibility where appropriate.
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