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waitematawoodys.com #1 for classic wooden boat stories, info, advice & news – updated daily – 14+ million views
Dedicated to the study & appreciation of wooden boats. WaitemataWoodys® was founded upon a desire to tell the stories & a need to archive the history of our classic wooden boats, the craftsman who built them & characters that owned & crewed on them. To share – email your photos, video's & stories to Flora McKenzie at waitematawoodys@gmail.com – Special thanks to marine author & historian Harold Kidd. Click the follow button at the bottom right of the page to get email alerts on new & updated stories. WW gets a LOT of emails every day – we like that, but sometimes we just can't answer them all, it's not that we're lazy or rude – just busy working on the next story :-) alan houghton – WW founder ©2024
waitematawoodys.com #1 for classic wooden boat stories, info, advice & news - updated daily - 14+ million views 
ALAN, — The boating community at large, owes you A GREAT BIG THANK YOU, for all the time & effort you put in to making this site possible for us all, & those of us who have a little input in to it, I’m sure, get great joy in sharing our knowledge with others, as we in turn, are receiving & learning ourselves. We all look forward to 2014 as being bigger & brighter than ever, I know many of us still have many stories, & much knowledge to share, & I for one, am looking forward to sharing a lot more of what I know & as yet is untold.. — KEN RICKETTS
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Congratulations, Alan, on getting ‘Woodies’ up and running. 170,000 odd views….wow. I thought by now you might be getting light on new material, but no, it just keeps on coming. I think you are also providing the impetus for owners to finally attempt the correct restorations. Next thing, we’ll see a few flying bridges flying off. Well done Alan, go you good thing.
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This site is totally addictive.
It’s working extremely well, progressively making us all aware of the need for accuracy in recording the history of our heritage craft. The yachts have been pretty well sorted over the years; we now have to blow away the myths around our motor launches and apply the same standards of validity and veracity that our yachts have received. After all, the launches were built by the same people who built our yachts, with the same materials and high standards of craftsmanship and, generally, for the same people who had commissioned the yachts.
It’s a tougher job, largely because launches suffered almost annual “improvements” and became almost unrecognizable very quickly. Secondly there was less reluctance than with yachts to change their names. These factors make establishing their provenance sometimes very hard, but it’s fascinating.
I love the wide input into Waitemata Woodys.
Synergy.
And it gets better every day.
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You deserve a break Mr H. Your postings are one of the highlights of my day – thanks.
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Mrs H is not awake at 5.00am 🙂
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I’d suggest that you either master scheduled posting or endure the wrath of Ms H
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