Got A Question, Looking For A Boat, Found Something Of Interest?

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Got A Question, Looking For A Boat, Found Something Of Interest?

ww gets lots of correspondence that start off like this :

” I used to own _ _ _ _ _ in the the 1960’s, do you know where she is now”

” I wonder if you could help me trace my granddads boat”

So I have set up a Lost & Found post – if your looking for a boat just enter brief details in the comment section below & click the ‘post comment’ button. You click on this icon, top right (up turns blue when you scroll over it), to go straight to comments – the number indicates the number of comments.

Over on the right hand side of the site is a Lost & Found panel – if you click on that it will take you to this post.

You can also use the search box to see if there have been any info posted – just type the boat name into the box & hit enter.

GIVEN ITS THE COMMENTS SECTION – KEEP IT SHORT i.e. NO STORY TELLING

I’ll trial it for a while & see how it goes. Alan H

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208 thoughts on “Got A Question, Looking For A Boat, Found Something Of Interest?”

  1. Have had an enquiry from a past, but later owner, of Gordon Coles COLMANA, a 1974 34 foot Vindex he had built. The enquirer would like to know if she is still afloat, & where she is now.
    An image is available on the post “GORDON COLE & HIS BOATS”
    You can email me direct if you wish, to kenpat@ihug.co.nz – KEN R

    Alan H edit – Vindex is a dirty word on ww 🙂

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  2. I am looking for a 1982 Pelin Empress named “Cassandra”, she was based in Auckland for years at the OBC, last known outboards were twin 85hp Suzukis and trailer rego was 95AZP (although searches on this show up nothing) …. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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  3. Fantastic to see KURI here, she is just as I remember her so very well in Mansion House bay for several years with her barge moored just off the inner point of the 2 House Bay, when she was involved with Craigs sand. Thanks so much for posting it, Alan & Harold. — Cheers — KEN R

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  5. Ken, that outfit was owned by Frank Hooks. The tug was “Kuri” still had the direct reversing “Fairbanks-Morse” engine.I think Frank bought her from war disposals after she came back from Fiji. Just can’t remember the barge’s name but she was a converted scow. Frank ran that rig single-handed grabbing sand and shingle for J.J.Craig doing 2 or 3 loads per week into their old Kings wharf yard.

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  6. S-Class (16′) Free To Good Home

    Message from Marcus Boielle
    Not sure if this will interest anyone but a friend of mine has just died and I have been asked to find a home for an old S-class 16 footer. She was wrecked in Okahu bay sometime in the 1980s
    She spent many years in a dry shed so there is no rot. The stem is sprung as are the garboards and some damage to ribs but she is pretty much complete. I have been told that the sail number is “1” though I have not verified this. There is a plaque on the coachroof with L’Estrile on it. It has been under a tarp for the last 18 months. It looks to be a good subject for restoration.
    Contact here on ww or e-mail marcus@clear.net.nz

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  10. Hi

    I came across your posting of 21st Oct. 2014 & have some information that maybe of some help.

    I was brought up at Northcote Point from 1963 to 1985. I now live at Birkenhead Point, so have not travelled far.

    The Stockley family lived at 110 Queen Street, Northcote Point.
    Wally was a builder in the area with another boating family – The Aspens. (Aspen & Stockley Builders)
    Gazelle use to be regularly pulled out of the water on a cradle / rail system at the bottom of their section.
    At one stage, I remember he built a clear Perspex flying bridge on the cabin. The family use to go to Great Barrier Island every Xmas.

    She was moored on a swing mooring in Little Shoal Bay.

    Unfortunately I do not have any photos.

    I hope this is of some help.

    Regards

    Philip Goddard

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  11. Most grateful for this information Harold, I’ve sourced a signed copy of the book in Christchurch. As the proud owner of GLENMORE the book will only add the historic value of such beautiful vessel. She is currently undergoing extensive work since a near drowning twelve months ago. With the help of Freddy Ochards family much of her history will be retained onboard, including the shipslog and Freds own memoirs of the early days as a child.She came across the Tasman in 2003, and it was love at first sight when I boarded her in 2009. I was lucky enough to purchase her six months ago, laying quite forlorn in Pittwater, Sydney. Totally rewired and painted she will be up and running again in full glory once the rebuilt Detroit is installed. Thank you again Harold, and to Alan for your help. What a great find to come across the woody website, keep up the great work
    Peter de Rooy, Sydney

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  12. GLENMORE is mentioned in “A Labyrinth of Waterways” by Frank Ponder. He says she was constructed by Swanson at Blackwood Bay from the bones of a 40 footer started by Isaac Harvey. The inference from the book is that she was launched more like 1946 than 1958
    although no precise date is given. Her first owners were the Orchard Bros and Ken Gullery owned her when the book was written c1985.

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  15. NORDIC was on Trade Me at Nelson earlier this year with many pics. (TM 849484979). I think that Russell will be able to source one for you.
    I know I’ve seen one of her on the slip at Whangateau but can’t find a copy on my machine.

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  16. Can someone help me with some photos of Nordic please.
    The Greenwoods did repairs to her at the boat yard here. Perhaps some-one can enlighten us regarding her story?
    I would like to use the material on the Whangateau traditional boat yard face book page if that’s ok.

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  18. It was the 20 footer NGARO designed by Sinton & Fisher and built by Harvey & Lang as a cat-rigged mullet boat for H.S. White of Stanley Bay in 1911. Like NGARU (both schoolyard Maori for “cat”) the rig was soon replaced with a conventional gaff sloop rig. The Rev. Jasper Calder’s parishioners bought NGARO for him in 1926 and he used it to preach a sermon every Sunday, often at Drunken Bay. Later, of course, he moved up to the various launches named CRUSADER. Maurice Rice must have owned her well after WW2. I didn’t know he owned her; my memory of him is his penchant for fast cars!

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  19. Looking for NGARO
    Hello there,

    Do you have any information of the 20ft. mullety yacht originally owned by Jasper Calder. My brother, Maurice Rice, bought that yacht, and kept it at Beachlands, and sailed on the Waitemata Harbour. Was a great family yacht for all our family.

    Regards
    Stephanie Wilkinson – (Maurice’s sister)
    smw@clear.net.nz

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  20. Message from George Janis – sent via the CYA – looking for info on the vessels Diane & Karatihi

    My father was friendly with Jock Mccullam a Scottish boat builder who built a couple of small launches for my father
    He also worked at Craft Construction and when Diane was launched she was berthed at Queens Wharf where she was finished. As a young boy I went for a ride around Wellington Harbour in her. Another Athol Burns design was also built there she was 40ft named Karatihi belonged to Jos Paul also went for a couple of rides in her does any one know where she is
    she was twin screw and powered by a pair of Morris Commodore petrol engines later lived at Te Punga Lodge Marlborough Sounds which at that time was owned by Mr Paul and I understand she was repowered with 2 BMC Diesels when launched she was moored at the boat harbour on the outer wall.

    Contact is george@georgejanis.co.nz

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  21. Is that realy you Ken? The Ken we know and Harold loves to tease?
    Short and to the point, ‘NATH’ and ‘RAPT’, it couldn’t be???
    If they can’t tease you Ken I had better look out they’ll start shooting me down instead. 😉

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  22. Yes, you are correct Ken, I am rapt having these brilliant photos of VALWYN. Wonderful to add them to the collection. Photos gratefully received, thank you.😃

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  23. That’s her Nath — really great clear pics — Karen Moren McG’s granddaughter will be rapt — thanks so much — cheers — KEN R

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  24. Been discussed to death before, as with most other of these McGeady boats which look basically the same. She was for sale for a long time, contact details and photos readily available at the time

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  26. LOOKING FOR WHITE HEATHER – X45

    I would like to know if anyone knows the whereabouts of “White Heather” X class 45 in which my father won the 1949 Sanders Cup. I heard it was somewhere in a shed in the Bay of Islands.
    Thanks
    Wendy

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  29. A Quick message for Garth Broadhead.

    Garth could you please contact me URGENTLY re TIARRI — Best Regards –KEN R

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  30. Seams filled with epoxy, bow has butt joins? Saw it on trademe a while back I think, I have a lot of people joke at me thinking that mine is still the same boat- coincidence that I’m hard chine, old, cover over and 27ft in same position

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  31. looking for info on a launch named QUANDA was found on the hardstand at Milford Cruising Club where it had been stored for many years was kept in Milford marina prior to that 26ft hard chine 1950s?

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  32. Just notice in the SUNRAY pic that immediately in front of her, in the middle distance, & clearly visible towards the top centre of the pic, is Roy Steadman’s NAUTY GIRL, that I’ve so much wanted a pic of for a long time now, & whilst not a close up ,it is at least good enough to see what she actually looks like, — so a double shot this time, to a degree anyway. — Lovely. — KEN R

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  33. ARK ROYAL was owned by R.M. & G. W. Best before Blackburn who called her OLIVETTE after his wife. Possibly built by Shipbuilders.

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  35. ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC NATHAN — THANK YOU SO MUCH — That’s her exactly as she is, (or was), the last time I saw her (which was over 45 years ago – but after the total replacement of the original coamings.
    Where did you find the pic? (If you can say of course.)– She has always seemed “special” to me somehow, for some strange reason, always fascinated me & I don’t know why,- must be with her radical unique coamings styling, which I didn’t actually even like & she has never gone out of my mind. Have continued to carry the picture of her, in my mind, exactly as it has appeared today. Cheers. KEN R

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  37. Ark Royal 24foot built 30s.I purchased the launch from Jim McCauley of Kawerau Ave Devonport in 2003.Jim bought the launch from the Blackburn family of Egremont st Devonport in 1955 would like to know who built her any other historyThanks.Aaron Coker

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  38. Looking for the 1908 Bailey & Lowe – Valerie

    I have just found this blog, and wonder whether anybody has any information on the Bailey & Lowe launch built 1908 – called “Valerie” and purchased by 6 of us in 1965 from the Wanganui Harbour Board. She had been used to tow barges of metal on the river, so was very slow (5 knots) with a big slow-revving propeller. Having had a recent re-engine with a Ford 4-cylinder diesel, she was very reliable, but totally neglected. Our syndicate did not believe in spending money on her, used her for several years, tied up at the old town wharf next to the main city bridge. Had some amazing fun and adventures ( the river bar, and the training walls come to mind), but I think after I left town she was sold to a house demolition bloke Jurgens. Wonder where she is now? Any information appreciated! No, I am not a relative of the Bailey and Lowe bloke! Just interested.

    Regards
    Mike Lowe
    mike.lowe@xtra.co.nz

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  39. In the late1940s earlyish 1950s thee was tug & barge permanently moored in Mansion House Bay. — the tug was a painted whitish colour, but could have done with a touch up. She had a cruiser stern with the name on the stern, & as I recall, the owner lived in the brown stained wooden cottage in the RH corner of the bay. — Can Anyone recall the name of that tug, or does anyone have a photo of the bay at that time, which has her in it. — KEN RICKETTS

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  40. I think you’ll find that was the bridgedecker LADY MARGARET, built by Les Deacon in 1955. John Senior bought her unfinished in 1958 and renamed her HAPPY WANDERER. She’s now in Picton owned by Frank Mitchell and renamed LADY MARGARET.
    Cross fingers we don’t have another haka about the multiplicity of LADY MARGARETs and their respective Mark numbers!!!!!!!!!!

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  41. Hello, I’m trying to track down a lovely old classic boat, possibly a bridgedecker, that my Grandfather built around 1930. It was called ‘Lady Mary’ but we understand that she was renamed. My grandfather was Les (Lesley) Deacon. Probably built in the Riverbed area. She had 3 portholes either side of the bow. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Robyn & David Lee
    rlee8660@gmail.com

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  42. SCEPTRE was built a 36ft motor launch for Mr. Stuart Dalton in the Archers Road factory off Wairau Road, Takapuna. That’s about all I know.

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  43. I also have a pic of FANTASY (SUPREME CRAFT- Mac McGeady). Back of photo says 1950’s. If anyone has any info or other pics, I’d be extremely grateful. There again,will send pic to Alan.

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  44. I have a pic of SCEPTRE (SUPREME CRAFT). Does anyone have any info on her please? Will send pic to Alan.

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  45. I have the Port Chalmers conection and will visit there in November 2015.
    DA company seems to have folded.

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  47. Sorry for the confusion if this is not AWATERE. When we were given the photo we were told she was AWATERE. The question now stands, if she’s not AWATERE, what is her name?

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  48. Have decided that the boat above is not WATERE, for a number of reasons but the 2 main ones are, she is too long for AWATERE, which is under 40 feet & this boat which appears to be 40 feet or more has the exhaust out the port side & in the pic I took, it is also clearly visible, & Awatere’s exhaust cowl is also easy to see, in the pic I took, & is on the starboard side, also AWATERE has 3 windows & the other boat 4, in the aft coamings section. Hope someone can identify her. — She looks very like ALTAIR, but ALTAIR has round portholes in the flair, the boat above has oblong portholes, so come on everyone, give her, her correct name for us. — KEN RICKETTS

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  49. When I was painting Rawene at Orams a year or two ago, Awatere was close by having a bunch of fibreglass put around her bridgedeck windscreen area, she had been there for some tome beforehand. She seems to be in a painted, servicable state at Milford?

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  50. Looks to be Awatere in happier times, as I recall her, actually I did hold back AH very disturbing what I saw being done two years ago.

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  52. Does anyone by any chance know the name of a McGeady boat c 40 feet like a slightly larger edition of AWATERE,, & very similar to ALTAIR but with square portholes in the bow, instead of the round ones as ALTAIRE has, — Have sent a pic to Alan — KEN RICKETTS

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  54. Hi Tom
    BRILLIANT 😜Thanks so much. Starting to fill in the gaps now. It’s so exciting. Be interesting to see the pic of Dad in his……..younger days. I’m just so grateful to get any pics of Granddads boats and life.

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  56. Hi Karen, as promised I have a nice shot of Aquila and some pics of Mac mcGeady on Antares, even 1 of Peter McGeady, as we were boys then,lol.
    Australis was owned in early years by Keith Archer. I will scan tjhese pics and send to your email. Regards, Tom Morris.

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  61. Is that the Bridgedecker Awatere? Ex Okahu bay then Tauranga -where she was left out too long and hogged then Northcote point where she was left to rot then painted and now B pier Milford.

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  62. Also looking for any info/pics on AQUILA and AUSTRALIS if anyone can help, that would be great 😃

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  63. Does anyone have any info and pics of McGeady built AWATERE? I have a pic supplied by my mother Lyn McGeady of AWATERE with ALTAIR in the background. (photos added. AH)

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  65. Remember it well –Unfortunately my mum would not give him permission for me to go for a spin with him, but went with him to Mangere where he kept it in my time, several times. —
    One of our very earliest dedicated aviators with his own aircraft that I ever knew of, ( c 1920 I think he told me, when he got his first plane.) A very fine & fascinating man, with an unbelievable sense of humour, who absolutely loved practical jokes & who lost a leg in the war as I recall. — K

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  66. FWIW, my first memory of Henry Thorne Morton is a crystal clear image of his red Rearwin Sportster flying over Motion’s Creek in the summer of 1940. I confess I was more interested in the plane than his launches. I think the Rearwin is at North Shore Airfield still.

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  68. FANTASTIC!! Thank you so much Harold. — You may have known H.T., he was a lawyer, although he was a bit before your time, & a very colourful prominent member of the North Shore local body Community & a close friend, from when I was 10, in 1946 right through my teen years.
    Dianna Drive, Morton Ave., Varlene Tce., (his boat at that time), & Rosalind Ave, were all named after his family, as you may know.
    How exciting. — All I have to do now is find some pics. Thanks again. — K

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  69. McGeady built AMARYLLIS for H.T. Morton of Seacliffe Ave, Takapuna c1952. J.A. Richards of Pukekohe owned her by 1973 and renamed her KOALA, not to be confused (I think) with the Dave Jackson-built KOALA.

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  70. Does anyone know where the c 40foot plus, McGeady AMARILLUS is, or does anyone have any pics of her, or any other info? –Not certain of spelling with the passage of time. She may be he boat that was built for H T Morton, — (Mac built him a boat around that period, which was originally powered by 2 x 4 cyl Ford Diesels). If this is not the Morton Boat, can someone please tell me the name of his boat.
    Please email me any info on kenpat@ihug, or reply to this post or to Alan H on his email or phone me on 021 988 919. — KEN RICKETTS

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  72. Does anyone know anything about, or have any photos of a Mc Geady (Supremecraft) launch, called VALWYN, apparently built circa 1946. Could they please email waitematawoodys@gmail.com or me on kenpatatihug.co.nz — KEN RICKETTS

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  75. I’m sorry I hadn’t quizzed him on the styleIng of the launch.
    The place is humming with visitors customers and kind folk and I have a section of chip board flooring up with new ply to lay and there’s a dehydrated rat on the top plate FREEKING me out !!! and two equally shriveled mice under the floor. And the real jobs not getting done…

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  79. No not a rant at all.
    The blog is an extremely good opportunity to learn and I would highly recommend any wooden boat apprentices follow the blog and ask questions. I liked the way Nathan freely asked to be reminded of a fact, yesterday.
    I like your wording Feast of Images as I see how very generous folk are being offering the images, bringing them to the fore. I had wondered what happens next. The information compiled here could be offered back in the form of a booklet annually?… of coarse with permission.
    I’m afraid I tend to be naive, I’m likely to repeat what I have been told, until I have learnt better, yes it is about courtesy.

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  80. Not a rant at all, very useful information and relevant especially for the images which have been plucked from online resources. Online resources generally have information on release and crediting too.

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  81. Warning, boring stuff from a lawyer follows.
    As to privacy, WW is about boats, mainly launches (which have been the poor cousin of the Classic movement until WW sprang forth from Alan’s loins). It’s only about people insofar as they relate directly and pertinently to boats, not about their private lives and foibles unrelated to boats.
    Pam, I should say that you are extremely unlikely to cause a problem because of your inherent kindness, courtesy and manners. But if there’s an invasion of privacy by some poster gossiping about people’s private lives, just for the gush of gossip and being smart arse, it brings down the wrath of the people affected (or mostly their fond descendants) and threatens the viability of WW.
    As to intellectual property, here on WW there is a feast of images which could be accumulated by an individual and republished in some form or other in breach of the copyright of the posters and WW, as is clearly flagged by Alan. Some posters too have posted images provided to them by others, without acknowledgement, which is another form of upset.
    It’s just a question of manners and the respect for other people’s privacy and intellectual property.
    End of rant.

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  83. Alan was right to pick up on that word, COMMERCIAL.
    There’s a minefield of privacy and intellectual property issues here in WW.
    I do hope they don’t fester one day.
    I’ve already had to placate two families utterly outraged by breach of privacy stuff that’s appeared here.
    If you add to that the whiff of a possibility of COMMERCIAL breach of copyright in images, it becomes a worry.

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  84. Perhaps I used the wromg words. What I meant was, I would love a pic where you could see her beautiful lines, — the one you & I have at the moment is a fuzzy litlle image of a 28 ft launch in the distance & if I didn’t know her so well, would not have been sure even myself. — As long as it is good enough for woodys & for me to see her ,that is al I need – perhaps commercial may have been an ovestatement. & the wrong word in the circs., Sorry about any confusion. — KEN Rm

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  86. Still looking fo a good identifiable pic of Roy Steadman of Shipbuilders, own boat, NAUTY GIRL that he built circa 1948-49, if anhyone can help.
    I have one of her in the background of another boat, but it’s not commercial unfortunately. my email is kenpat@ihug.co.nz. — KEN RICKETTS

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  90. there are two boats at Ngunguru which caught my eye recently, one looking remarkably very similar to Wenna in style actually. also an older smaller D- front cabin etc pulled up on the land in a Maori trust area with no access permitted unfortunately.

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  91. Ta Harold
    I followed this up a little and she is now in Ngungaru. I have been promised a photo but it might take a while to come but if someone is in Ngungaru and can take a shot for me would be nice. Mike Blanchfield owned her at one time.

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  92. FOUR WINDS was a 28 footer built by Dick Lang in 1937, maybe not under that name. She was owned 1958-1966 at least by Mr. & Mrs Davies of Manukau Road, the last trace I have of her.

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  96. Hi Sally
    I have asked Harold Kidd if he was aware of the the boat you mentioned above – his reply to me is below.
    “I’ve no trace of that NGAIRE. There was another NGAIRE on the Manukau but she was MAVIS B renamed.”
    Sorry. But others may be able to help so fingers crossed 🙂

    Cheers Alan

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  97. Hello, we are looking for information about a saloon straight stem (around 30foot) 1920’s-30’s pleasure launch originally owned on the Manukau by Harry Lewis. Her name was ‘Ngaire’.
    Thank you.

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  98. She was built around 1953 when she was first registered to Lewis Crawford-Watson of 20 Shoal Bay Road, Devonport, Stationer, call-sign ZMHF. I’ve seen her several times since 2000 at Kawau and Sandspit but have no pics readily to hand. Must search. I wouldn’t have picked her as McGeady, but then, people got what they wanted, didn’t they?

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  99. Does anybody have a pic of, or seen recently, or know of the whereabouts of, the ASTRA, a lovely little 28 ft. Mc Geady c1950s, –(the smallest of his sedan tops I can recall,). She had no portholes in the flare — (unusual for his boats), — originally powered with an Austin “Skipper 100” 6 cyl petrol engine at least up until the1970s. Was kept at Hobson Bay & the Sandspit & owned by a Mr Robertson or Robinson in the1960s-70s. Would love a pic if anyone has one. Please send to Alan or kenpat@ihug.co.nz

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  100. Thank you Harold & Ken for your comments & information. I should clarify that I am not technically the new owner, but Laura & I do have an agreement to purchase “Ballerina”, subject to a sea trial, which we hope to complete as soon as the weather settles down.
    I was also confused by the “funnel” in the pics, & initially thought that she had a dry stack, but that is not the case. The mystery appendage remains a mystery.
    Any further information would be gratefully received.
    She now has a 60hp Ford diesel, which should be more economical that the petrol V8!
    Best regards
    James Groenhart

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  101. I have known her since new, & by the look of the pic except for what looks a bit like a funnel, in the main cabin cabintop, & that she had light coloured varnished coamings originally, (probably Kauri), which she actually retained for many years — with the name in gold leaf, in block letters, on a smallish plaque on the coamings, midships, below the main cabin windows. She otherwise looks virtually original to me, The Millers by recall were a quiet English couple who led a fairly quiet boating life & kept mostly to themselves. — You never saw lots of boats rafted alongside or anything. –lovely people.
    Am trying to get hold of my very old friend Jim, who is the last living member of the Roy R dynasty, as he worked on almost all of the boats built by Roy R family in that era, & he is almost certain to be able to tell us where she was built, which I also think was in Auck., but not sure if it was Ngapipi Rd however. He is out of town at the moment but I should be able to catch up with him in the next day or 2. — KEN RICKETTS

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  103. According to APYMBA records she was built by “Lidgard” in 1951 at “Auckland”, first owner C.B.H. Miller of George St., Morrinsville. She was 28ftx26ft6insx9ftx2ft6ins and had a 100hp Osco Ford V8 petrol engine (Mercury 239 cu in). Miller shifted to live at 6 Bongard St Mission Bay about 1957 and sold her sometime after 1961. In 1973 she was owned by L.G. Armstrong of 12 Saltburn Road, Milford and kept at Milford. Sounds like James’ history is spot on.

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  104. BALLERINA
    The new owner, James Groenhart, of the 28’, 9’6″ beam launch ‘Ballerina’ has been told that she is a Lidgard design & build (c1952) & apparently was built in one of the sheds on Ngapipi Road, not at Kawau Island. She is of kauri carvel construction & seems pretty original.
    She is currently moored at Algies Bay, James believes that she was kept at Milford until 8 years ago, when the current owner purchased her.
    James would appreciate any information on her history that the ww crew are able to provide.

    Contact James here on ww or direct at
    james@kanematsu.co.nz

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  105. Nathan, we think BON VOYAGE is CYVETTE all right. Just checking with Dave Jackson, who told us she was renamed BONAVENTURE. Dave built more boats than you can shake a stick at in his yard at Sulphur Beach, all of them excellent, so he can’t be blamed for confusions of this sort over 50 years down the track!

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  116. SELMA is no more. She was built by Collings & Bell in August 1912, not “in the 1930’s”. She was kept ay Mahurangi for many years. She came ashore at Stanmore Bay on 24 January 2006 and broke up.

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  117. SELMA – Anyone know her where abouts ?

    Selma is a Collings & Bell launch, built in the 1930’s. She was owned by Clarice & the late Richie Hoban of Tauranga of a number of years prior to their purchase of ‘Freelance’ (1964, Owen Woolley) in the 1978. The Hoban’s owned Freelance for 32 years & sold her post Richies death in 2010.

    Now Clarice, is looking to track down Selma – if the name rings any bells with any woodys, please post details here, you will make an old lady very happy.

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  118. MV GAZELLE
    I am wondering if anyone can help me or point me in a direction to find any information re a 1958-9 36 foot displacement launch called ” Gazelle”. A friend is restoring this old classic and I’m trying to gleam any information I can about her.
    She was built in Auckland during 1958-59, and was designed by Jim Young. She is a displacement launch, and was built for for a Wally Stockley of Northcote. She was the last of the 3 hulls built upright by Jim Young.
    I am trying to find any history re previous owners, and the life of the launch until now.
    Thank you for any help you can give me
    Cheers
    Alan Clements
    ayba.secretary@gmail.com

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  120. Can anyone help with a c1904 launch called RENAHAU or perhaps it may be spelt as RENUHAU. Have spoken to son of owned who owned her 3 times in last 25 years & who would like to know more — KEN RICKETTS

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  121. ALAN; thank you so very much for this wonderful addition of “LOST & FOUND,” to the site a brilliant idea, many thanks to you, & also to AUMOE for his great observance & retentive memory. I have spoken to the present owner last night & have now got 3 lovely pics of TEMPEST , which will allow me to complete the series of posts I have been working on for weeks, on the Norm Fairlie series of boats. — KEN R

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  125. Well if she’s the GALATEA owned by Best in Tauranga c1920 I can help. Where is she now?

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  126. PS that foliate scroll-work on the bow is a dead giveaway that she’s Bailey & Lowe of the period 1911 to 1920 when it was highly fashionable.

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  127. I’ve done this before for someone. ROYAL IRISH was a 32 footer built by Bailey & Lowe in August 1913 at their Sulphur Beach, Northcote, yard for H. C. Williamson of Cape Runaway. Her original engine was a 20/35hp Sterling. In the winter of 1914 she broke away from her exposed moorings and came ashore but was shipped back to Bailey & Lowe for repairs. Joe Addison of Waimana owned her for many years. In 1941 she broke down off the Rurima Islands, a little to the west of Whale Island, off Whakatane. Addison sent off carrier pigeons for help and was towed in by the PORT WHAKATANE. Addison sold to Charles Bell of Waimana who replaced the 3 cylinder Ailsa Craig then in her with a BMC Commodore diesel. Bell sold her to Barry Davies of Leigh c1975. The rest is recent history.

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  132. That would be of great interest to us also. We have slipped her often but I have never realy absrorbed her history. She must be nearing her hundredth birthday. Perhaps I should shoot across for a photo of her in the morning.

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  134. There is 30 ish foot Launch on a swing mooring just down stream of Panmure Boating club named Tempest.Might well be her.

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  135. URGENT!!!!
    One that is very important to me to find quickly, is a pic of a 30 foot Mc Geady launch built for Norm Fairlie in 1964 called TEMPEST –Nome F had her built specifically for the World Game Fishing contest held in NZ in 1964 & sold her shortly afterwards He was fishing for the Kawau Game Fishing Club — he never took a pic of her, & I urgently need a pic, to complete a set of proposed posts for this site. If anybody by chance has one I would really appreciate it if they could please, send it to Alan or me at kenpat@ihug.co.nz — KEN RICKETTS

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  136. Bummer, I just kinda put together the unique features of your boat- the rounded bridge windows, teardrop aft cabin windows, sheer and distinctive ‘full’ rounded hull shape midships

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  137. hi Nathan

    the side windows and the aft of the cabin look the wrong shape so I would say no .Thanks anyway Kelvin

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  139. Another one — does anyone know where to find, or have any pics of, the early 36-38 foot Mc Geady bridgedecker, built as LADY SUNSHINE, for Tucker Bros., the owners of Sunshine Food Products Khyber Pass (Sunshine jellies etc.), & sold to the Com Hardley family, — (Hardleys Plumbing Supplies Morrow St Newmarket — c1946, who changed her name to VARLENE, & which was later owned by my old friend, H T Morton for a number of years in the late 1940s & 50s — ( Varlene Tce,. Mairangi Bay was developed by HT& family & named after their boat), — & I think she may have been owned by Fred Hildich after the GULF STAR in the1980s
    Hope someone can fill the gaps, & send some pics., — have great hopes with Harold. — KEN RICKETTS

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  141. Entirely agree with the top line of your comments, she definitely lacked in visual aesthetics, & by what you have now said, the “5” cylinder Hudson would follow through. — Sounded awful out the exhaust that’s why I enquired at the time as to engine details. — KEN R

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  142. the 32 footer SUNRAY was built by Harvey & Lang for themselves in early 1914. In 1915 they installed that American sedan-type top. Ernie Harvey sold her to shipsmith Tom Inglis (I mowed his sisters’ lawns) in 1916 and he installed a hot Buffalo for racing . When H O Wiles got the Stearns agency, Tom installed one of those high-performance engines. He died during WW2 and I don’t know what happened to SUNRAY after that. Her APYMBA number, 45, was taken up by the Couldrey WAIRIKI after the war.

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  143. As a teenager I regarded SUNDOWNER as a rather horrible vessel. She was built by R.J. “Pud” Dixon at Devonport and launched in 1940. Dixon used kauri from the railings of the old Takapuna Racing Club which was rather soft. She lived on a mooring off Torpedo Wharf and was registered as B28, later D8. I remember when she came ashore at Devonport in 1947 and later was stolen, finishing up on the rocks at Orakei. I think my woodwork teacher at Devonport School, Jim Gibson (GLEAM, AOREWA) had a hand in her construction. Jack used to keep discipline in the classroom by firing inch by inch cubes of wood at the offenders.
    According to Ian Hill, not so long ago, SUNDOWNER still exists “up harbour”.
    I am intrigued at the massive technical challenges involved in removing one cylinder from a Hudson car engine.

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  144. Does anyone know what has happened to Roy Steadman’s beautiful 28 foot little bridgedecker, NAUTY GIRL, with the full half circle forward deck, that he designed & built c 1946-47? — KEN RICKETTS

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  145. I would like to know more about a 2 masted motor sailer/yacht called SUNDOWNER, seen frequently in Schoolhouse Bay, in the mid & late 1940s.
    Willie Smith of LADY ELWIN, had an association with her, c1946.
    She was fairly large, around 50′ with a centre bridge, not similar to, but in the concept of NEREIDES, MANAWANUI, & even had a flying bridge & an unusual wine barrel shaped stern.
    She had a “5” cylinder Hudson car engine, ‘cut’ down from a 6. KEN RICKETTS

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  146. Does anyone know what happened to the SUNRAY– as seen in the RH corner of the recent post WWII pic of Mansion House Bay – she is next to the LADY SANDRA. Circa 34-36 feet long featuring in that pic., a unique bridgedeck styling, similar to that of a early 1930s American sedan car roof & rear window concept, with a tiny oblong rear window, & the cabin top rounded & flowing in to the coamings with no dividing line of the beginning & end of each. she originally had a bus top ( tram top) of the early mid 30s & was probably built at that time . She was very fast, & had a dainty little flared bow, with no portholes, & a medium height deck line, higher than the earlier classic Logan & Bailey era. I saw her frequently at Kawau between 1946 & 1951 but have never set eyes on her since. — Love it if someone could fill in some gaps — KEN RICKETTS

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  149. Triesta. 33ft bridge-deck built about the early 60’s as I was told by the previous owner.

    I bought her in 2000 from Trevor Managh at Sandspit and he had her for about 4yrs. The Lindaurs of Russel BOI [oyster farm owners] also had her for approx 4yrs but not sure when. I have a coastguard Certificate of Seaworthiness issued to a R.G. Hillary dated 1 July 1967. She was also based at Waiheke at some stage,apparantly, but not when or who owned her.
    I would love to know her build date and who built/designed her along with any other history.

    Thanks Kelvin Petrie

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