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Dedicated to the study & appreciation of wooden boats. WaitemataWoodys® was founded upon a desire to tell the stories & a need to archive the history of our classic wooden boats, the craftsman who built them & characters that owned & crewed on them. To share – email your photos, video's & stories to Flora McKenzie at waitematawoodys@gmail.com – Special thanks to marine author & historian Harold Kidd. Click the follow button at the bottom right of the page to get email alerts on new & updated stories. WW gets a LOT of emails every day – we like that, but sometimes we just can't answer them all, it's not that we're lazy or rude – just busy working on the next story :-) alan houghton – WW founder ©2024

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Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder on April 5, 2018 at 7:32 am said:

Hi Dan, email me details & photos to waitematawoodys@gmail.com

Alan

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Dan Glennon on April 4, 2018 at 10:24 pm said:

I would like you to do a storey on the Ngaio William , it took 30 years to build and we bought her twelve months ago, she is 52ft and is berthed in Wellington, built of all types of nz native timber.

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Nath on August 23, 2016 at 11:08 pm said:

Google it? Or even search here. The hull of Kestrel was afloat at Westhaven recently, and the Toroa is on the side of the North Western motorway. Rest are beneath the ground that Orams etc are built on.

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Ron on August 23, 2016 at 6:59 pm said:

I wood love to see wots happend to all the old Auckland ferrys

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John Halse on August 22, 2016 at 12:04 pm said:

Would topless sunbathing get a guernsey?

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