MATANGI – Sailing Sunday
photo & details ex Nathan Herbert
The above photo shows the yacht Matangi & given the photos owners family connections, is most likely a Winkelmann photo. What more do we know about the yacht?
Harold Kidd Input
Robert Logan Sr built MATANGI for C.B. Stone, then Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board and Commodore of the Auckland Yacht Club in 1887. She was a typical schooner-bowed cutter/yawl of the period, rating at 15 tons with dimensions of 51′ loa, 9′ beam and 6′ draught.
Stone sold her to John Wiseman and Willie Wilson of the “N.Z. Herald” in 1888 as a swap for TAWERA. She remained with Wilson for nearly 28 years but he sold her to Alex Alison of the Devonport Steam Ferry Co in 1905. Ernest Davis bought her in 1909 after she had been hauled out at Stanley Bay for several years. In early 1912 H E White bought her and had her sailed down the coast to Wellington. She had a 14hp Anderson auxiliary installed and was sailed by Oscar Freyberg. Later in the year she was sailed back to Auckland, White went off to Sydney. In August 1916 Chas Bailey broke her up for her lead. There was only just over 6 tons of it.
Bloody shame. I guess her her lead was turned into .303 projectiles by Colonial Ammunition Co and strewn about the Somme.
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Aha! Makes sense. Phew! Just for a silly moment there I was afraid you were going to do the brokerese “cutter rigged yawl’ thing. I’ll now wash my mouth out with soap and water 🙂
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No, the idea was that the jigger could be unshipped, leaving the mainmast in place eg VIKING. However, many of the yachts with this set up were re-rigged as full cutters for racing under different owners eg ILEX.
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Cutter/yawl? Was she re-rigged at some stage?
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Thanks Harold – that fits as the photos ‘owner’ was connected e.g. mother was Justice Winkelmann & father Martin Wiseman.
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Robert Logan Sr built MATANGI for C.B. Stone, then Chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board and Commodore of the Auckland Yacht Club in 1887. She was a typical schooner-bowed cutter/yawl of the period, rating at 15 tons with dimensions of 51′ loa, 9′ beam and 6′ draught.
Stone sold her to John Wiseman and Willie Wilson of the “N.Z. Herald” in 1888 as a swap for TAWERA. She remained with Wilson for nearly 28 years but he sold her to Alex Alison of the Devonport Steam Ferry Co in 1905. Ernest Davis bought her in 1909 after she had been hauled out at Stanley Bay for several years. In early 1912 H E White bought her and had her sailed down the coast to Wellington. She had a 14hp Anderson auxiliary installed and was sailed by Oscar Freyberg. Later in the year she was sailed back to Auckland, White went off to Sydney. In August 1916 Chas Bailey broke her up for her lead. There was only just over 6 tons of it.
Bloody shame. I guess her her lead was turned into .303 projectiles by Colonial Ammunition Co and strewn about the Somme.
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