My Girl – about time we had some older wood posted

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Harold – can you help ID this launch – thx

Harold Kidd Update

That’s the lovely MY GIRL, built by Dick Lang in late 1925 for C.B. “Tui” Waldron of the Wade who commuted with her. The square-bilge design was based on one by W.H. Hand. She was fitted with a 6 cylinder 100hp Scripps that pushed her along at over 18 knots. Waldron later took her to Whangarei and she was in NAPS as Z32 out of Whangarei in WW2. She survived at Te Atatu as recently as 2001 owned by Trevor Davies.

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3 thoughts on “My Girl – about time we had some older wood posted”

  1. Is ‘My Girl’ still on the hard at TBC? Last time I checked she had builders’ fill slapped roughly over 65% of the bare wood/ seams with the rest of teh bare wood and seams still exposed. The worm had been filled too, and yet the water left in the bilge was still leaking out through the hull. Her keel/ hull bottom has a curious shape, that it appears to be hogging toward the stern. Unsure if this is intended or not. Will the owner (who is known) let someone save her? Or will they put her back in the water to her decline. Stem still stuffed as well.

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  2. Uh oh. Is this the boat which now has tram top and bitzy aft dodger/wheelhouse? Saw her at Te Atatu on the hard a couple days ago. Someone has waterblasted her hull so that in some places no paint is removed, in others one layer removed, and in a substantial area the wood has been well removed and/ or fluffed up. It looks stuffed, and will now need a full and heavy sand back in any case to bare wood to start fresh again, losing at least a few mm of hull thickness. Also has electrolysis on the chine where a copper plate is nailed on, and worm in the transom.

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  3. That’s the lovely MY GIRL, built by Dick Lang in late 1925 for C.B. “Tui” Waldron of the Wade who commuted with her. The square-bilge design was based on one by W.H. Hand. She was fitted with a 6 cylinder 100hp Scripps that pushed her along at over 18 knots. Waldron later took her to Whangarei and she was in NAPS as Z32 out of Whangarei in WW2. She survived at Te Atatu as recently as 2001 owned by Trevor Davies.

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