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Wainui

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder

WAINUI

I took the above photos of Wainui at the weekend, moored off Bayswater Marina. Going by the posts on ww, Wainui was a popular name for a boat (maori = a small seabird). She looks well cared for & the hose (bilge) out the starboard porthole is a sign that her owner cares about her.

What do we know about this one?

Harold Kidd Input

She’s not one of the two other WAINUIs that have featured on WW but just could be the Arthur Forrester-built WAINUI which has been on the Kaipara all her life. Zach should know. There were several more WAINUIs too.

Input from Zach Matich

Jack Martin of Dargaville had her for years then sold to Westlake family and kept at Tinopai. Photos below

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Lynley Melville on June 22, 2020 at 7:14 am said:

That was my father’s boat

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Dave Hallie on June 27, 2017 at 10:02 am said:

She is as is stated above, I purchased her from Dargaville and she was steamed to Helensville and lifted from the water and driven by truck to Te Atatu. The ribs needed doing as she was rotting and fastenings were loose. Too much for me so sold her off. This is the same vessel. Dave.

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Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder on September 30, 2015 at 7:11 pm said:

Photos ex Zach Matich added. AH

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zachmatich on September 30, 2015 at 5:38 pm said:

Jack Martin of Dargaville had her for years then sold to Westlake family and kept at Tinopai.
will dig out some pics

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AUMOE on September 30, 2015 at 10:27 am said:

Ours was based in New Plymouth/Waitara area for many years prior to steaming to Onehunga in 1987.

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Castaway on September 30, 2015 at 9:17 am said:

She has hauled in the past at the DYC.

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harold531harold on September 30, 2015 at 8:54 am said:

PS The Pollards’ WAINUI does look more like a Forrester hull than this one but the Forrester boat was on the Kaipara in 2000. It’s a real pickle of WAINUIs. There were at least three launches of that name in Auckland in 1929, one at Dunedin, one on the Christchurch Estuary, one fishing at Raglan (which I suspect is the Pollards’ boat), one on the Manukau, one owned by Caesar Roose at Mercer…..and probably more, not counting probable re-names.

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harold531harold on September 30, 2015 at 8:45 am said:

She’s not one of the two other WAINUIs that have featured on WW but just could be the Arthur Forrester-built WAINUI which has been on the Kaipara all her life. Zach should know. There were several more WAINUIs too.

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