PIONEER II
photos ex Terry
This ones a mystery to me, I was sent the two photos with a note saying the smaller one is of the launching from Collings and Bell at St Marys Bay.
Who can tells us more about Pioneer II ?
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From Terry,
I find it inconceivable that no-one can tell me what happened to Pioneer 2. A few other details. I think she was AK101. Certainly fished the Gulf. Was moored in the Tamaki River at some time in early 50’s. The top photo may have been taken at Cuvier Island. Eric Creamer and his family were lighthouse people from 1906-22.
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Hi Lindsay. Sounds like the boat I want. Anything about where she went?
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The Pioneer 2 at Port Chalmers weighed 600 tons so not the one.
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Hi Terry
I have no recall of the info – is it possible to send (again). Email address below. Cheers Alan H
waitematawoodys@gmail.com
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Why would you want to put to sea in a boat that didn’t roll?
No, I mean that she is a boat for real men: Not too many creature comforts. And no, Pam I don’t reckon it is a yikky wheelhouse. Not too far to fall if it gets a bit tough out there. Looks OK to me.
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By that do you mean – would tend to roll …
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The wheel house is a bit Yikky.
But I love the photo,the street and houses, the boat yard sign and front door.
And she is otherwise pretty.
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PS WAS fishing out of Port Chalmers until 2012. Current whereabouts?
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Baden will have the real answer to this, but a PIONEER II is still fishing out of Port Chalmers owned by Da Shed Ltd; skipper in 2011 was Les Poulsen. Could be George Brassell’s old boat (?) in which case he built her at Lyttelton.
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I did send some other information about Pioneer 2 last year.
Her owner was Eric Creamer and he fished the Hauraki Gulf with her. I was at the launching as a small boy. The Collings and Bell photo is circa 1945
Terry
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I did send some other information about Pioneer 2 last year. Her owner was Eric Creamer and he fished the Hauraki Gulf with her. I was at the launching as a small boy.
Terry Cole
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Hi !!
Lindsay from the crooked Islands
Can remember Pioneer 11′ in the fishing boat harbor inside the Western viaduct in the 50’s-60’s
I think she may have been a Danish Seiner or Long Liner ??
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She’s a real man’s boat!
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