HO HO HO
I hope the old boy in the dinghy above found his way to your boat or bach last night & you are enjoying Christmas Day with friends & family.
We will be heading away shortly to find a quiet (yeah right) bay somewhere to catch up on some quality time & attack the stack of old boating books I have been acquiring over the last 12 mths.
There will be postings on ww over the break but I may be limited by laptop battery life & internet signal. Bare with me 🙂
The last 10 months since I launched waitematawoodys has been a blast, I have meet & communicated with a wonderful cross-section of people both in NZ & abroad who share a passion for classic wooden boats. As of today the site has over 176,000 views which is simply amazing & I can not let this opportunaittiy pass without thanking the wonderful group of people that shared their photos & stories with us all. One 83 year old ww follower sent me a brief note last month that to me sums it up:
“The value of waitematawoodys to me is the sense of communion with the boats and the former owners, and in that, it’s priceless.”
If you are lucky enough to be out on the water – be careful out there & remember to check that knot on the dinghy painter, I hold the record in the CYA for AWOL dinghies 🙂
Merry Christmas & safe boating.
Alan Houghton
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Thanks Alan for the bringing together of such wonderful memories of the woodies we all have or are currently in love with. A fantastic resource that is only going to grow, and perhaps the perfect springboard for a publication. It won’t belong before WW cracks the 200,000 mark. Hope to catch up over the break, and two wonderful woodies can get together in the same bay.
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Job well done Houghty, you must be chuffed. Have a cruisey Christmas. Might bump into each other over the break. Fenders out.
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This is from phyllymay@icloud.com, Thankyou for all the lovely photos and reading since i became on air. I wish you all a wonderful Xmas and New Year. Regards Phyl.
Sent from my iPad
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merry xmas alan you do an excellent job here thanks cheers plumb
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Thanks Alan for your efforts here.. Amazing result and long may it continue.
Thanks too for your help this year in shuffling Rorqual around with the slip, Heritage Landing etc. Looking forward to catching up with a bottle or two on the water later this week.
Merry Christmas.
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Thanks Alan for the idea of WW which not only allows us to view old wooden friends but to be rewarded with friends long gone. For me I really enjoy the photos dredged up from cruises past, (I have a photo I will post one day of my father at Mansion House Bay on Christmas Day 1934 with a lovely WW in the background ) and then the added history of where they are now!. Have a happy and safe cruise.
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A Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too Alan and a Huge thank you for your Waitemata Woodys
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