Lady Gay – before & after

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LADY GAY – BEFORE & AFTER

‘old’ photos ex Keith Munro, new ex Alan H

The older photos above of Lady Gay show her when Tommy Allan first bought her. I post as inspiration to anyone considering undertaking a restoration, all it takes is money 🙂 (I joke). The combined efforts of a lot of very talented people have gone into bringing LG back to her finest. But she deserves it, she is after all one of the 3 big & beautiful Colin Wild sisters (Lady Gay, Wirihana & Linda) .

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9 thoughts on “Lady Gay – before & after”

  2. I could forward Ken copies of my long series of Boating NZ articles on Colin Wild which contained this pic….but from his reaction to this pic I’m not sure he would be able to handle the excitement safely, healthwise…………………

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  3. FANTASTIC ALAN!! — Didn’t she look just ssssooo beautiful, even though it was wartime & her “gleem” is missing, obviously because of this, she is still so lovely — thank you so much for letting us all share in her original concept — KEN R

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  5. Great pic of WW II days, — what a shame it does not show more of her original lines, as this was long before she was lengthened & would have been great, — surely someone MUST have a pic of her as she was built, where we can see her original classic beauty!!

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  7. L.G. EARLY HISTORY. As a result of my mother Wyn Ricketts, (Nee Denton), becoming teenage friends with Irene Wilson, (nee Isaacs), at “Johnnys” Dancing School Remuera, my parents (Ralph & Wyn R — JULIANA), & I, were invited aboard L.G. one day in the later 1940s, where the Wilsons told us, they had sold LG circa 1938 for 900 pounds with a view to buying a “better” boat. After searching for a year, they realized there simply was not a better boat to have, & bought her back for 1800 pounds – Probably one of the very few poorer business decisions was to sell her in the first place.

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  8. LADY GAY’S engines as far as I’m aware, were, Ailsa Craig (with 2 side exhausts immediately above each other, on the port side, as original, replaced circa 1946-47, with a 671 Graymarine/GM Detriot & as I recall, perhaps a short funnel, replaced wihen lengthened, with a 6 cyl Volvo, with stern exhaust, & she perhaps may have a Gardner now.

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  9. Having Known the LADY GAY from 1946 personally, when Joe & Irene Wilson kept her in Whakatakataka Bay, just under the bridge for many years, from circa 1937, I have been trying to find one ot the many pics of her, as she was originally built before her lengthenng later, that appeared in the “N.Z. Weekly News,” which his company Wilson & Horton Ltd owned at that time. It would be lovely to add a pic of her as original — perhaps a reader may have one they can add. — KEN RICKETTS

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