Kamalii – Sailing Sunday
Mooching around Waiheke Island over Labour Weekend 2014, I went for an early morning row & spotted Kamalii anchored in Onetangi. Quite a sight in the early morning (sun rise) light. Anyone able to supply some more info on this rather nice yacht?
Update: Just discovered a very current, up-to-date blog on Kamalii – all you want to know here.
http://svkamalii.blogspot.co.nz/p/about-kamalii.html
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It’s called Close Seamed construction. Is/was quite common in Scandinavia. I didn’t know it was used in the US.
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She looked rather Majestic in Port Fitzroy last Christmas.
Nice to hear some of her story.
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A beautiful vessel and interesting construction too. Large diagonal bronze ribs throughout. Edge butted planking and no glue or caulking. Not sure what you call that construction but she’s amazingly fair. The current owner , James Booth lives aboard at Gulf Harbour. He is undertaking a rolling restoration but she is basically sound. Quite a looker and unusual in this part of the world.
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Hardly “American”!
KAMALI’I is the exact Hawaiian equivalent of our maori “TAMARIKI” after the consonant changes from archaic Western Polynesian to which maori is much closer. T =K, L = R, and the glottal stop ‘ stands in for K.
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BEAUTIFUL & VERY AMERICAN, EVEN TO THE NAME!! — KEN RICKETTS
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Sailed from Newport Beach, California last year I think. Was a deceased estate for sale online for years. Classic Rhodes sheer and transom. Big and comfy no doubt too.
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A beautiful Philip Rhodes design from 1959, a centre boarder, she appears to have had some major TLC since last seen at Kawau Island a couple of years ago. If you “Google” Kamalii there is a wealth of information on her.
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Philip Rhodes (US) design from the mid-twentieth century. The long graceful ends are typical of the period, and the rather well-proportioned deckhouse with the “walled in” cockpit atop the after coachroof is a hallmark Rhodes feature. Don’t know who she was built by in the US, but I understand she’s had some serious work done since she’s been in NZ
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