Tuatea

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TUATEA

photos ex trademe, details ex Ken Ricketts.

39 ft 6 inches built by the Lane Motor Boat Co. in Riverview Rd Panmure in 1954. She has spent much of her life game fishing out of Tauranga, initially, then Whitianga & to the B.O.I., & back to the Whitianga region, as at now.

Present owner Colin Orr has owned her for 11 > 12 years & previous owners include Ron Elliott in 1950s & 60s who sold her to Morris Mitchell who initially kept her at Whitianga, in the later 1960s or early 70s, & he owned her until the mid 1980s. During this time he relocated to the B.O.I. where he sold her.

She presently has a 6 cyl. 135hp Ford diesel. She is of the era & stable, of Sou East, Nor West & Tangaroa, with her distinctive coamings styling, especially in the mid section.

Some classic boats end up with a block of flats on top, this old girl has an apartment building 🙂  Ken & I agree that her cabin top / open flybridge, as shown in the early B & W photo, suits her perfectly.

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11 thoughts on “Tuatea”

  2. She’s back in the north where she belongs, Allan Taylor of Hikurangi owns her. She has spent a month in Tutukaka before completing her final leg home today.

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  3. She’s an old beauty,they just don’t make them like that anymore,seriously thinking of buying her,am going up to Whitianga next couple of weeks,I am 55 years old and grew up on the Waitemata at Cockle Bay,regards Tony.

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  4. and as I have pointed out before-Brian Lane has been designing and building boats in his own name at the old Lane property at Totara North for many years now
    e.g. “Ngapuhi” Whangarei Harbour Board-ex “Waihoa”

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  5. I disagree. Your argument is unsound.
    I have zero argument with calling a product of Lane Motor Boat Company Ltd a “Lane”. But why say “Garth Lane”?
    The company had been operating in Auckland since 1905 as “T.M. Lane & Sons” and subsequently “Lane Motor Boat Company Ltd” and Garth Lane (and his brother) were the last men standing?
    On your analogy, every Logan Bros yacht, launch and steamer would be an “Arch Logan”.which is the same misleading nonsense.

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  6. Thank you Harold, for correcting my spelling of “coamings”– must confess have spelt it that way all my life, however it will not ha[pen again. — thank you for that.

    In respect of the “Garth Lane” comment, I think you are being a little pedantic & perhaps a little precious. — How many times, have all of us said, this boat is a Salthouse, or that boat is a Woolley, or the other boat is a Max Carter? That to me does not convey that that Bob Salthouse, or any other head, of any well known professional boatbuilders, personally picks up a hammer & rivets, & start banging away at a particular boat, or any boat, for that matter, it means to almost all of us, (except perhaps you), that it was built under their banner & to their standards. — I think we probably all know, that Garth Lane, probably never picked up a hammer in his whole life, for boatbuilding purposes anyway. — KEN R

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  8. Sounds like a good idea to me Murray… We should start with a feed somewhere… Give me a call and we’ll tee something up.

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  9. No CYA regatta this weekend, perhaps we need to organise a WW marina visit or crawl !!!

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  11. Surely nobody is suggesting that Garth Lane personally built this launch?
    Certainly he would have accepted the order, designed it and supervised its build by the company of which he was managing director, Lane Motor Boat Company Ltd, but that’s all.
    We’ve been precisely at this place before, and I got snaky because it’s so misleading to say “built by Garth Lane” and totally meaningless.
    Since any WW posting goes straight on to Google, so popular is this site, the damage to veracity is big and immediate. With WW’s popularity (deserved) goes the responsibility of carefully weeding out misleading crap.
    Finally, can we kindly get rid of that hideous misspelling “combings” and call them their right name “COAMINGS”?
    My tuppenceworth.

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