Classic’s in Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island
Lots of classics on the bay – my attempt at ID’ing them – from left Menai, Safari,?,Trinidad (or Lady Crossley), ?, Coquette, ?, Rehia (or Talua) Wirihana?,?
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Yes Coquette is definitely there in the middle.
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The bottles made the holding very dodgy. They were being cleaned out by scuba divers one time I was there.
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Mansion House Bay used to get fairly rowdy back in the day. The owner of the hotel put the spotlight (mounted on the upper balcony) on the revelers one particularly noisy evening only to have it shot out for his troubles. When you looked over the side of the ferry, you saw enough empty DB Browns to jusrtify 2 or 3 bottle drives….
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EDIT: Sorry not like Rehia on closer observation
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Middle left Amakura II, above her Lady Crossley, lower right Rotomahana. Also Rehia or other, and a Sam Ford bridgedecker.
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Lower right is neither ROMANCE II nor MARO (originally ISLAY then THISTLE then LADY MARGARET [I] then MARO) but probably ROTOMAHANA.
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I think u are right about Lady C – the others have me beat 🙂
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I would say that’s Lady Crossley at the back on the left hand side. It looks like she’s wearing a dodger and Trinny didn’t sprout hers until 1997ish.
I have the book written by Nora Wilson “Memories of Mansion House” which I’ll let you read. It’s very interesting. I don’t normally lend it out as it’s very frail but I know you would take care of it. It’s one of those books one keeps forever, even if it’s totally in shreds. I found it in a bargain bin at the Browns Bay bookshop about 30 years ago along with South Sea Vagabonds and Sheila in the Wind. What a lucky find.
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Hi Alan,
I can add one or 2
Lower right query Maro, perhaps Romance, Centre in front of Lady C (am virtaully certian it is Lady C,) is Taufale, — Bridgedecker no dodger in middle, is Lady sunshine, (built for Tucker Bros Sunshine Foods by Mc Geady 1930s later renamed Varlene By Com Hardley (1940s,) — query Marietta low profile bridgedeck & bus top back to dodger no sweep in deck in centre bay
Your thoughts ?
K
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