11 thoughts on “Shenandoah”

1. sheesh you guys sure do snipe, thought us woman were bad, wev’e had her Shenandoah for 18 yrs now we have moved up to Tamaterau Whangarei and brought her along with us of course, my husband and I are no qualified boat builders but wev’e done a pretty good job , we gave the old motor Leyland to the Tauranga musiem and put a detroit 6/71 in her we cruised around for about 10yrs then changed her again to a v8 just last week and then next we will be tackling her cabin sides . Never ending but she’s worth it.

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2. I completely agree. She’s LADY MARGARET.
   But, no matter how you huff and puff, she’s not, nor ever will be LADY MARGARET ONE, so why do you obsessively go to all the fuss of persistently calling her that? What’s your agenda?

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3. My thoughts on the reference aa above were not that there was no other before her but she is the oldest surviving L.M. still under the L.M.banner & since there are at least 3 survivers I am aware of, as at today, in my view it is correct, to say she is the oldest, & therefore first of the survivers, the original number one, having been denamed, (if there is such a word?? — although I actually think it is a neat word anyway), right back back in the1920s, & she is highly unlikely to reclaim the title, I am also going on what is written on the copy I have, of her official registration “Certificate of British Registry” , with the registry of British ships, which simply says, “Official number 153983 & “Name of ship” “LADY MARGARET” — No mention of of “L.M. II,” so L.M. is without doubt, her official registered name — I rest my case — KEN R

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4. Ho hum, Ken is still banging on about the Wild LADY MARGARET being NUMBER ONE when the material he obtained from me and posted on this site clearly shows she was NUMBER TWO, particularly the New Zealand Yachtsman article on H.O. Wiles. Maybe he just didn’t read it?
   Otherwise I just can’t understand his persistence in the face of fact nor comprehend his agenda(!).
   It’s little wonder that so many of our launches’ histories have got so thoroughly screwed up over time with this kind of approach!
   The plain facts are that Wiles’ first LADY MARGARET (ex THISTLE) was sold to Dr. G.C. Long when LM 2 was launched and Long obligingly changed LM1’s name to MARO, leaving Wiles to retain LM for the new boat. What’s hard about that?

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5. Have just had another look ar the “Observer” photo, & she looks an absolute picture of elegance, presence, panash & even dignity perhaps, & also a litte like a bgger LADY MARGARRET NUMBER ONE (the Col. Wild designed & built L.M.) with the long foredeck & the bridgedeck styling — what a truly magnificent part of our maritime history she was when built. — KEN RICKETTS

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6. Ken
   You have to start using the search box, there are photos there of her restored & moored at Te Atatu.

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7. It was the Pah Farm managers (a middle aged couple) who owned her at that time, & they told me of big plans to restore her, one day when I was at Pah Farm, but am not sure whether they sold her, or whether they still owned her at Te Atatu, but as at the last time I saw her close up, certainly nothing spectacular seemed to have happened. – KEN RICKETTS

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8. I wonder if the stern was designed to be clear out of the water? As it still is on the present day stainless steel covered Shenandoah

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9. Yes the Mk2 Cortina dates the pic, I used to admire her lines in the viaduct in late seventies up in rotten row , fancied that she looked rather like a New York commuter boat –without the necessary horsepower of course, but very appealing and worthy of a resto , thought the same when she lived at Pah farm in the nineties.

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10. Date removed.
    She is still at Te Atatu.

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11. Fantastic pics, however, there is one error, the photo at the viaduct basin, labelled as “1939” has to be at the earliest, the1960s, as there is a 1960s vintage Ford car (looks like a Cortina a bit, but may be an early Falcon) on the LH end of the car line up. Also I remember her well in that era, & that is how she looked. & that was where she moored, & I saw her there many times, as she was used for commecial fishing trips & longlining in those days. — So very sad to see her like that, after her magnificent & elegant early days.

    I was aboard her in the later 1990s, on the hardstand at Te Atatu, & at that time, she was gutted inside, & they were endeavouring to put her back together, perhaps to restore some of her heritage. She had a Leyland “Comet” 6 cyl diesel, standing in the middle of nothing, in the totally stripped bridgedeck, when I saw it.– Looked like it was home marinised . Think she masy still be moored at Te Atatu. — KEN RICKETTS

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