PAIKEA
Helped take Trinidad last Sunday to the Sandspit boat shed of Greg Lee Boatbuilder’s last Sunday, spied this classic – Paikea – moored just off the wharf at Sandspit. Can anyone shed some light on her? Poor photos, facing into the sun.
On the trip north passed 4 different large pods of dolphins, the biggest pod was mooching around the moored boats at Sandspit. Photo (iphone) is of one of the smaller dolphins that kept us company for a while off Tiritir.
Harold Kidd Update
PAIKEA was built by Collings & Bell for A.H. Court and launched on 26th January 1921. She was fitted with a 120-150hp Model M Van Blerck 6 cylinder petrol engine (not a straight-eight Packard as is often said). PAIKEA had Chas. Collings’ “concave-convex” type of hard chine design which he made famous with his various FLEETWINGS and whale-chasers. Indeed she was a refinement of the FLEETWING whose image appears in the Collings & Bell section of WW.
PAIKEA was good for 20 knots and can still do it with her present big Iveco/Fiat, as I experienced not long ago at Sandspit. She goes like hell and stable with it.
Alf Court sold her to Hec Marler in 1925 and he sold her to R B & S S Wilson just pre-WW2. She was in NAPS during WW2 as Z17. .
Correct, Steve is my brother. I love Paikea, and decided to google her, and came across this. She needs a good clean, sorry Steve!
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Yep Hec was my grandfather. My dad Bruce tells of many fond memories of cruises to Wenderholm and beyond for family picnic outings…
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PAIKEA was built by Collings & Bell for A.H. Court and launched on 26th January 1921. She was fitted with a 120-150hp Model M Van Blerck 6 cylinder petrol engine (not a straight-eight Packard as is often said). PAIKEA had Chas. Collings’ “concave-convex” type of hard chine design which he made famous with his various FLEETWINGS and whale-chasers. Indeed she was a refinement of the FLEETWING whose image appears in the Collings & Bell section of WW.
PAIKEA was good for 20 knots and can still do it with her present big Iveco/Fiat, as I experienced not long ago at Sandspit. She goes like hell and stable with it.
Alf Court sold her to Hec Marler in 1925 and he sold her to R B & S S Wilson just pre-WW2. She was in NAPS during WW2 as Z17. .
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Can tell you HEAPS about this…. and will post photos as Keith used to own her…
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I believe that she is still owned by Steve & Maria Hansen ??, who has the house above the large wharf (SE corner) in Schoolhouse Bay.
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