Rahemo #2 Post

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RAHEMO #2 Post

ww was contacted by the present owner of Rahemo & the information & photos the Rod Turner has supplied deserves its own post, read below
“The Chrysler Crown 125s I replaced were “mirror” or a contra-rotating handed pair. They were rugged and reliable, dedicated marine engines. No change of rotation occurred in the gear boxes. They were supplied and installed by Todds as New Zealand agents, not the Navy. Rahemo never had diesel engines before 1987. The “one family from new” is my mistake as I was not aware of Mr Butchers 2 year ownership. I thought the Todd family owner her from new. The Trademe listing was done by Vinnings Brokers. Rahemo returned to Auckland in the 1950s to be used for deep sea fishing in the Bay of Islands before making a second trip back to Wellington.“

Richard has supplied 2 photos of Rahemo on the hard showing her under-water hull shape & a stunning black and white is of Rahemo and another family boat, the “Maroro” taken in Onahau Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound in about 1948. Maroro is a Chris Craft from about 1932 still in his families ownership awaiting restoration.

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  2. Look at her lovely windlass up fwd! She’s a man’s boat! Look at the way that fwd wheelhouse screen works well with the camber on the wheelhouse top. Some of them can just look wrong.

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  4. PS – I am consequently brought to the thought that the true subject of this photo may be the divers and not our wonderful Woodys?

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  5. The black and white photo is a beauty! I’d be fascinated to know more about it, if possible. Firstly, MARORO (“Flying Fish” in Cook Island Maori and I guess the same in NZ Maori?): Is she definitely built by Chris Craft? Her windshield looks different from other, similar vintage, CC I have seen (I’ve been keen to buy one and have looked at many in the US in the last few years), but it is quite possible they were “improved”… In any event it would be great to have a separate post on her if her restoration does begin – what a great project that will be. Secondly, I’m not sure how the photo has been dated (possibly by the child on the foredeck?), but I would like to speculate that this is after 1952. The reason is the divers in the foreground. They are wearing what is almost certainly Porpoise CA-1 SCUBA equipment. I can nearly make out the word “Porpoise” on the closer cylinder. Designed in Australia and to get around Cousteau’s patents, the equipment was distinctive in that it was single-hose and had the valve at the bottom of the cylinder (both features are apparent in the photo) and released commercially in 1952. This single hose, regulator-at-the-mouth, Aussie design is the direct ancestor of modern equipment, more-so than Cousteau’s twin-hose, reg-at-the-cylinder design. So, if this photo is before 1952, this is “beta” equipment and therefore a real piece of history. Nonetheless, even if 1952 or slightly after, we are looking at some of New Zealand’s earliest recreational diving here. Very, very cool. I certainly have not seen such early pictures of recreational diving in NZ.

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