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WW has been contacted by Ron Trotter the owner of Valencia built by Baileys. Ron thinks she was built some time in the 1940’s (unlikely, more like 1920’s AH). He was told that it was built for a guy that did the Kawau Island mail run back then but cant get much info about this. The boat is currently moored at Whangamata.

Ron is looking for any info on this boat and or photos of how it was in early days. Reply here in the comments section. Ron’s details are also below.

Ron Trotter  – ph 078893374 / 0274316405 / 0274850950wk

Harold Kidd  Update

Well, she looks very much like the VALENCIA at Whangarei in an earlier post which a search here under “Valencia” brings up. She was in Whangarei from at least 1927. I think she could have had a name change just before that to the name of the wildly popular paso doble song of the time, “Valencia”.

Maybe however she was new in 1927. It’s possible. I know nothing about a Kawau connection which could be more myth.

Bailey & Lowe is more likely than “Bailey” = Chas. Bailey Jr.

Update #2 

It is also possible that she is the VALENCIA built in Tauranga for?/by? L. Oliver in 1926 which he delivered to a Whitianga purchaser in March 1939. There were lots of VALENCIAs after that bloody song came out on 78 after the film came out in March 1926.

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  1. I’ve been trying to do that for a while, but unsuccessfully. I do have an anecdote that she was built by Bailey & Lowe and had an original name something like EMMA MAY, but that’s all it is, an anecdote from a former owner, who may have owned a different VALENCIA. There were at least four, one in Tauranga, later Whitianga, owned by L. Oliver. 2 on the Manukau and the Whangarei/Napier/Auckland one, which I think is yours. Perhaps a good approach would be to try contacting the Ralls and Wakelin families who owned her in Whangarei in the 1940s.

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  2. Hi there Harold where or what would the next step to find out who did build this boat and when, also where it has been during its life up till now also any old photos arround could be very handy. Thanks Ron Trotter

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  3. PS It is also possible that she is the VALENCIA built in Tauranga for?/by? L. Oliver in 1926 which he delivered to a Whitianga purchaser in March 1939. There were lots of VALENCIAs after that bloody song came out on 78 after the film came out in March 1926.

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  4. Well, she looks very much like the VALENCIA at Whangarei in an earlier post which a search here under “Valencia” brings up. She was in Whangarei from at least 1927. I think she could have had a name change just before that to the name of the wildly popular paso doble song of the time, “Valencia”.
    Maybe however she was new in 1927. It’s possible. I know nothing about a Kawau connection which could be more myth.
    Bailey & Lowe is more likely than “Bailey” = Chas. Bailey Jr.

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