Winsome

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WINSOME

photos ex Dean Wright

Winsome was built by Bailey & Lowe in 1918. More details can be viewed by searching her name in the ww search box.
The other launch in the photo is Arethusa, built in 1927 by Bob Brown & now owned by Dean Wright , again view more via the ww search box.

Photo below ex Harold Kidd of Arethusa under sail – rather fine looking

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  3. She was domiciled at Collingwood as a fishing boat when she went ashore then went to Tauranga and then to Tapeka Point in the Bay of Islands owned by Mike and Judith Pike of Russell. It would be great to see her sailing again one day!

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  4. At one point (I think in the early 1950s) Arethusa – still a sailing boat – was wrecked at the entrance to the Whanganui Inlet SW of Cape Farewell on the West coast of Nelson. It was after she was salvaged that she became a motor boat.

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  5. That would be quite a job! I’ve tinkered with it from time to time, However, I must correct the info on ARETHUSA which is way out. She was built at Sulphur Beach, Northcote, by Bob Brown as a chunky auxiliary in March 1916 for himself. She was named after the cruiser HMS ARETHUSA which took part in the sea battles of Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank, then was lost off Felixstowe in February of 1916 when she struck a German mine. I seem to recall that Bob Brown’s brother was aboard her but should check that further.
    While being built, ARETHUSA was described as having “a straight stem and an American schooner stern”. In 1923 she was registered as B12. She looked for all the world like a big mullet boat and was very capable. She was 34’x11’6″x4’6″ and had a biggish heavy duty Kelvin.
    Brown sold her to R H Goodman in 1924 and he renamed her MARCIA, but she was always thought of as ARETHUSA. Roy Lidgard bought her about 1928 and sold her to Hereward Pickmere of Whangarei in 1931.
    Hereward had been yachting since infancy, initially in one of the very first 7 footers built by Harry Highet in 1923 which later became the Tauranga or “P Class”.
    Pickmere took ARETHUSA to Fiji where he had a surveying post for some years. It was a really pioneering voyage and was well publicized at the time, adding to the keenness of young new Zealand yachtsmen to follow in his path.

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