Johnny Wray Is Calling For Your Help – Ngataki Finalist in Classic Boat Magazine Restoration of the Year
Good morning folks – I’d like to ask you to spend 2 minutes of your time doing something that could have a big impact on the NZ marine restoration industry. The legendary classic yacht Ngataki is a finalist (Restoration of the Year – Under 40′) in the prestigious Classic Boat 2015 Awards. Classic Boat Magazine choose their short list (6 only) from around the world & then its up to the classic community to vote on who they think is the winner.
A fact of life is most people are lazy & do not get around to voting – so how about we all rally together & vote for Ngataki. If we win the publicity for the NZ marine trade will be huge.
Other than voting, what more can you do? – on-forwrd the link to this ww page to your friends, family & business associates & ask them to vote.
Ngataki’s category is top of the list so that makes things easy for you & the UK have great privacy laws so unless you tick the ‘Send me stuff’ box they will not make your name or email address available to third parties. BUT you do need to tick the ‘Privacy Policy Acceptance’ box.
CLICK THIS LINK TO VOTE NOW http://www.classicboat.co.uk/awards2015/
ps the competition is stiff & our girl was designed by Johnny himself so every vote we can get will be needed 🙂
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Cough cough splutter, er yes I remember now saw Bertenshaw junior up there. Must have been something I dr**k (didn’t eat) Was entertaining on my ship before going ashore….
Is Ranui the Mullet boat mothership now?
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Hey we had Ranui, Wairiki, Kotuku, Wairiki, Jessie Logan, Tucana, Corona there! The biggest varnished raft-up around
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voted, hoping to see her out sailing soon, missed her and the other Tino Rawas at Mahurangi this year- the weather was ok.
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Never any doubt in yours or the teams aptitude Nathan. A great job done.
George and Pam
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Voting Done congrats from Macau legend in the making …
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*panelling* damn autocorrect. We have left the bulkhead unpainted.
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Done (voted). Also, regarding “…found the pencil scrawlings of Johnny and the “Hon. Members of the Ngataki Club” written over shellac coated diagonal labelling…” Did anyone have the presence of mind to photograph those scrawlings for posterity..?
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Voted
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done
Dr John Hockings32 Rockbourne TcePaddingtonQ40640418714011
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:02:21 +0000 To: johnhockings@outlook.com
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Awesome! There can’t be many boats with as illustrious a career in the southern hemisphere. And to have a true international following – fantastic. She is a tank, which I’ve got to say is very comfortable to step aboard compared with most of the sylph-like classics we sail. A hugely thorough restoration and deserving of any award. I had not read the book yet when I was scraping her paint back and found the pencil scrawlings of Johnny and the “Hon. Members of the Ngataki Club” written over shellac coated diagonal labelling. Then I read the book and it all made sense!
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