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Jack Brooke Cruise Collection #17 – A Late Cruise On Kiariki May 1963
Another Jack Brooke drawing, published on ww thanks to son Robert for making them available to ww followers. Jack produced a hand drawing on each cruise. Today’s post is the 17th featured – this one shows a May 1963 cruise aboard Kiariki to the bottom end of Waiheke Island. It appears a landing at Man-O-War Bay (private prop) did not receive a hospitable greeting. From the comments – ‘4 rolls in the main’ to the numerous ‘no thanks we don’t want a tow’ it must have been a mixed bag of conditions.
Crew Onboard: John Brooke, Elsie Brooke, Judith Brooke, Errol Slyfield & Bobbie Walker
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She’s in the style of the US racer DISTURBER IV of 1914, perhaps not with that 12 cylinder in line Duesenberg engine though!
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Ok, well no doubt Harold has taken this under his wing.
Ta for sharing it with us.
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To*
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Yip very old, and no not accessible yo public ever,
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Has the general public always been able to access the clock tower in order for the drawings to have been carried out. Do the drawings appear to be old.
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Actually I have ditched and am only doing sunday as just 2 of us that day. I’m on a roll with my boat so committing all free time to her 🙂 Looks like a drifter today
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Nathan – what u doing posting here?, i thought u would be out on the regatta course, or are they saving the young grunt for the double banger on Saturday 🙂 🙂
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Nathan tells me that the object at the stern isn’t an outboard at all, but a crude depiction of a man sitting upright behind a vertical steering wheel. So now we are looking at a racer of a much earlier period, perhaps inspired by James Reid’s 1905 TOGO, a 37 footer with a 30hp Ailsa Craig; or maybe the Sydney boat INVINCIBLE, built by Morts Dock, which came over for some demonstration runs in November 1907. The chine starting at the stem head is the key which is why I thought it was a Blimp.
I’ll have a trawl through some images over the weekend.
Hey, this is real industrial archaeology!
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There was also a scratching by probably the same hand, of a ship with “USS Virginia” written above it. But she visited in 1908 with the white fleet
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The Town Hall was built in 1911. That image is up to 20 years after that and looks rather like one of the Collings and Bell-built “Blimp” outboard racers based on a late 20’s US design and usually Elto-powered.
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Maybe he did this graffiti I found scratched onto a brick right up inside the top of the town hall clock tower
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Jack Brooke was one of the pioneers of outboard racing in the country so I think the message is a little more complex than just a distaste for motor boats inside his comfort zone as a yachtsman. Notice just how well the outboard racer is drawn!
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Of course – silly me – I forgot about the 200m no go zone around a vessel with a mast 😉
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I imagine the no thanks we don’t want a tow refers to the proximity of passing powerboats!
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