Mystery Launches 13-01-2016

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Mystery Launches
photos ex Harold Kidd

The two photos above are of the same place and probably taken at the same time period (if not consecutively). We have the 1942 Vos built, ex NZRN (ML410) ship La Reta* alongside in one, can we ID the location & the other boats?
The wee clinker with the Seagull is very cute.

* to read more on La Reta link this link https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/03/20/6468/    there is a great tale there from her later years when she was operated as a day fishing excursion vessel from Princess Wharf launch steps 🙂

12 thoughts on “Mystery Launches 13-01-2016”

  1. The “Maire” is a bit work weary there but when a partner and I looked at her in the early 60’s up at Panmure she presented very well. It was just the K4 kelvin engine that put us off. That looks like the new “Kawau Isle” in the background.

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  6. My girlfriend waaay back in High School used to be cook on a Fairmile fishing boat, possibly La Reta, her name was Vina.

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  7. I would say the old scow barge is Frank Hook’s “Waiti” and the launch in the lower pic (with the open bulwarks at the bow) is “Maire” Lidgard built for Kawau trade.

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  8. The Clinker was My Uncle Sam’s , he had the house on the beach at Harris Bay opposite the Yacht Club, he had the FF Pinkie in the shed under the house one side & built boats under the house on the right hand side .

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  9. I could hardly wait to put my 2 penneth in, as it seems like only yesterday, when that was taken, when Stan Headland, (LADY JOAN,) Fred Steel, (FAYE), & others of a group including Cyril Bertrand, (JUANITA,) Henry Allan (TIROMOANA,) Colin Stewart (AURORA,) Aubrey Webster, ALCYONE, & the Ricketts family, (JULIAMA,) were all cruising there together, & were sharing the beauties of that delightful bay (with its “glass bottom”), & the island, & the friendship, camaraderie, joy, & hilarity, that was what life was all about for those of us, who had this, as a part of our privileged world, in those days.
    Vintage Steamer, I’m sure, will attest to, & add to this. — Must say MAIRE was looking slightly sad. Almost certainly very late 1940s or earlier 1950s. — Looks like it could be KAWAU ILSE, by the funnel & little bit of what looks like bow stanchion , behind MAIRE, which would make it earlyish 1950s – KEN R

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  10. See the scow remains on the foreshore in the lower pic? I remember exploring that one when she was intact in 1960. La Reta became Sayandra in 1963. She had a rather boxy wheelhouse fitted when she was doing fishing trips from the launch steps. Then she had a more streamlined top placed. None looked as good as the original IMHO.

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