Mystery Yacht – Sailing Sunday
photos ex Shamus Fairhall
Today’s post is total mystery to myself & Shamus, all Shamus knows is that a friend asked him to scan the photographs – I’m sure one of the rag & rope woodys will be able to at least ID the class of yacht, if not the actual name.
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31′ according to owner. Dont know if she wwould be as old as 1912, as ribs where sighted were not too bad, no doubling. I own Parimar btw. Reading thru all the posts on various boats, it is amazing how many I have sold or tried to sell over the years I have been in brokerage
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I still can’t figure out that name but she’s clearly an early 24-26ft (maybe even a 22ft) mullet boat with an open cockpit in the early style. She has a canvas cockpit cover in place in the pic at anchor.
I have been trying to match the name to the number but both are badly pixillated because of the low res scan. Any chance of a scan at, say, 800+ dpi? Or just a name of the family involved?
My suggested candidates are the 24 footers MARU and GLADY.
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Is she 29-30ft? If so she could well be the GRYPHON built by T.M. Lane & Sons for E Gittos in 1912, much modified, of course.
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Does anybody know of an old bridgedecker called Gryphon..purportedly a 1957 Shipbuilders, but has straight stem, single planked. Owner trying to sell says built 1957 in Wei, but I doubt it very much
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No, it won’t be RATA. When I get a moment I’ll go through the names of the contemporary 24s and 26s and match the writing.
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The name on the bow looks like Rata.
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PS Shamus’ friend must have a family connection and an owner’s name? That will pinpoint her.
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She’s a 24ft or 26ft mullet boat. The sailing pic was taken some time between 1914 and 1922 because she’s wearing the 1914-issue sail number. Pity I can’t read either the name or the number. It ain’t MUTU though. No such boat and that’s an end to it! (probably shouldn’t pun in maori…)
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Olivine – you posted your comment in the photo section, not the main post. I have added it here. Alan H
“IS IT MUTU?”
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