March 17, 2014 5:38 am
TAMAHERE
photo & details ex ken ricketts
Tamahere is seen above tied up at the Sandspit wharf. She is currently owned by Chris Metcalf who has had her for about 12 months & bought her off a Mr Rose. She has a small Isuzu engine, which replaced a 135 hp 6 cyl Ford, which had been right in the bow, & he has put the Isuzu more amidships.
The designer / builder is un-know & while there is no concrete proof the talk is she was launched in 1904. She appears to have been low wooded in the bow & has had the bow raised & combings added to, altered, or replaced, through the years, but not for a very long time as Ken recalls her more or less looking like she does now back in the 1950s/60s.
In her past life she was used for years by a number of Kawau Island residents & trades people (builders etc) to tow barges & be a work boat & workers transport, Also for a while was used to tow the fuel barge with big tanks on it, to the KIYC, from Sandspit. She was moored for quite a period in the 1970s & 1980’s in Smelting House Bay.
Currently kept up the Matakana River at Sandspit & is in the process of being, in the owners words, ‘tidied up’. Any help in ID’ing her & her past would be appreciated.
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Categories: 1900's, Launches, Non Waitemata, Working Boats
Tags: Kawau Island, Tamahere
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By Alan H - waitematawoodys on August 13, 2014 at 7:59 am
There was a TAMAHERE on the Waitemata between 1911 and 1923. Her hull shape could easily be 1904 and is very like the Le Huquet SAPPHO. Former owners told me that she was on the Northern Wairoa at some stage but that doesn’t help.
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