August 4, 2016 12:11 am
RANGINUI
Today’s launch photo is from the Auckland Museum’s Tudor Collins collection. The photo quality is not the best, I suspect the plate was damaged at sometime in the past. The ww brains trust have come up with a big fat zero in terms of ID’ing the boat, so help from the woodys would be appreciated.
In terms of the location – given its a Tudor Collins image it’s more than likely to be the Bay of Islands or even further north e.g. Whangaroa? Input here too please 🙂
She was not a mystery for long 🙂 view details & photos on Harold Kidd’s 27 Sept 2013 ww story on Ranginui at the link below.
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Posted by Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder
Categories: *, 1940's, Launches, Mystery Boat, Non Waitemata
Tags: Chas Bailey & Sons, Ranginui, Tudor Collins
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[…] so if you stripped this out of the price , she may have the bones of a good restoration project. https://waitematawoodys.com/2016/08/04/mystery-bridgedecker-04-08-2016/ https://waitematawoodys.com/2013/09/27/ranginui/ You can see that in the b/w photo below (ex […]
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By Ranginui – A Peek Down Below | waitematawoodys.com #1 for classic wooden boat stories, info, advice & news on May 31, 2019 at 12:08 am
don’t think its whangaroa I should recognise it if it was
mark lane
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By Mark Lane (ADHB) on August 7, 2016 at 9:08 pm
I have just researched the Museum’s records & they show the photo was taken in 1952 at Otehei Bay in the Bay of Islands
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By KEN RICKETTS on August 5, 2016 at 12:23 am
Could be in the Bay, turtle island close to the right, Mountain’s Landing behind and Mataka Station behind that.
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By Nath on August 4, 2016 at 9:24 am
She is the RANGINUI & she was owned by H D hall for many years — I knew her very well in the mid 1940s/50s, which was part of the period of his ownership.–That is exactly how she looked when I first knew her, but was altered from original by then –KEN R
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By KEN RICKETTS on August 4, 2016 at 12:27 am