Sailing Sunday – Ranui
Ranui was relaunched Monday 13th after a 3 month full hull refit at Salthouses. Owner Richard Allen had lots of nice things to say about the Salthouse yard, ” really performed and they are special , providing owners with use of their facilities and advice without charge and with a wealth of knowledge and practical advice gained over 60 years building many of the finest of ‘Waitemata Woodies’ . All traditional boaties need to remember Salthouses yard, which of course has its own dock facilities, 2 slips and various moorings in Greenhithe. Of course if you want a high tech carbon racer they love doing those too.”
Ranui would be one of the best document vessels on ww so to view / read more – click here https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/09/21/sailing-sunday-ranui/
And as a bonus – I have included some USA photos sent to me by Randell Colker of the boat he built & has just launched. Randell & his partner Shirley Estes visited NZ in 2012 & I secured them a spot crewing on Thelma in the CYA Classic Yacht Regatta. Randell said it was the highlight of their trip down under, so much so they are coming back in late Feb/March of 2015 & hope to catch the regatta again.
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Is this what Josca is building at the school?
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Love the little canoe yawl in the US, looks like a William Garden Eel ? A noble little ship inspired by Holmes’ Humber yawls.
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Come to think of it the “turning in” boats, the few that I’ve seen, may well all have been double enders. — I know with my own boats, that “turned out”, they always did exactly as they were told, — & were a dream to handle. — my dad’s GAY DAWN, which both went the same way, would not do anything it was told, it seemed to me, (comparatively speaking.) — KEN R
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Hi Russell,
Nicely said… I think… 🙂
I looked up Movarie and saw her for the first time. Your staff had talked about her whilst I was in the chair, you must have taken them out on Christmas doo’s and the likes… You had never shown me a photo. 😦
Pam
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Well some boats have it that way, Ken. Movarie had hers inturning. I think it is better that way with a double ender unless she is very hard aft (like Manaia) to avoid a lot of propwash and wasted effort each side down aft. Remember this: turning inwards gives you power and thus speed, turning outwards gives you maneuverability. The four RNZN Bathurst minesweepers Stawell Inverell et al had this configurement and handling was a problem: They do everything a twin screw boat does but not very well. Think about it, the first turn for me taking Movarie out of Blowswater was a hard left hander. So stop the port screw and speed up on the stb, but the stb prop paddles the stern to port. So go astern on the port prop and that paddles you off to port too. She understeers somewhat. Get the problem? The one rudder was no great help. You had to set up the turn about halfway there and even then hold yer breath.
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Have just noticed that the RANUI, subject of SAILING SUNDAY, has her propellers turning “in” whereas the usual practice is for them to turn “out”. — Wonder what their thinking was, & if there is anything special about RANUI that makes this more desirable than more usual & usually better, turning “out” configuration. — KEN RICKETTS
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I remember that well too. That RANUI was a brand new 45′ launch built by Lidgards for E.G. Williams of Tauranga and launched on December 11 1950. She was wrecked on North Rock December 28 1950, only 17 days old.
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Just out of interest, my Uncle Fred Willis drowned on one of the original Ranui when she was broached and destroyed on the bar at Mt Maunganui in 1950 with the loss of 22 of the 23 on board. I was seven years old at the time and remember it vividly. A television documentary is currently being filmed about the accident which was one of New Zealand’s worst marine disasters.
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