SERENE
photos & details ex Ken Ricketts, edited by Alan H
Serene was built by Roy Parris in the late 1950’s early 1960’s. She is approx. 36′ long & powered by a 6-354 Perkins diesel. She has had the same owners, Helen & Craig Brown of Whangarei for over 20 years & is kept at Opua & before that in front of their waterfront home in Whangarei.
The Browns bought her approx. 20years ago off an Italian living at Snells Beach who only owned her for 3 or 4 months & he had bought her of Garry Nordstrand who had owned her for a long time. To the best of the Browns knowledge Serene is the boats original name & she has spent all or almost all of her life in Northland from Algies Bay upwards. Her coamings were varnished until fairly recently as the surface had deteriorated so much they reluctantly made the hard call to paint them, with a thin new layer of timber like a veneer, beneath the new paint to improve the surface.
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Tom Lindesay and Julia Colgan purchased Serene 20/9/2015. The boat is in lovely condition many thanks to Craig Brown. The 6.534 runs well and does 7knots at 1300 revs. She is moored in Opito in Kerikeri.We hope to have many years in her.
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Aveline is still For Sale Looking for enthusiastic owner. Recently had substantial external tidy up of all paint work etc.
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That’s the one. Like an MG steered from a step-ladder with an aero-screen. Pardon the car analogy.
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Was she the one with the outside steering position with a screen atop the saloon? Looked a rather harmonious way of doing it -a good alternative to the brutal frying bridge approach.
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She’s quite like Roy Parris’ AVELINE, recently for sale on TradeMe, raised foredeck, “flying” trims around the scuttles etc.
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Roy didn’t build many with a raised focsle like that. Built a lot of lovely boats -so there was usually at least one in the bay. The trims round the scuttles were almost a trademark (along with the looks). I’m glad they survived.
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