CRUSADER
Next wet weekend when you have little to do, have a peak at the Auckland Libraries, Sir George Grey photo collection, its a gold mine of old Auckland photos. Nathan Herbert pointed me to the collection & while you have to troll thru a lot of average material, every so often you click on a nugget like the above photo of Crusader under full throttle at Great Barrier Island, photo taken December 1929. Given she was built in the winter of that year by Collings & Bell for the Rev. Jasper Calder and Charlie Goldsboro, the above photo could have been her maiden cruise.
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Input from Brent Parry – My dad (Jim Parry) bought her early 1970’s, can’t recall when he sold her. We as a family had great memories of this, tripping to the Bay of Islands and Kerikeri inlet, Great Barrier Island… not including hauling her for a bottom scrub with copper dust flying! I recall the 6 cylinder engine but not the type, may have been a Lees. Didn’t go as fast as the early photo showed!
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I agree absolutely, she looked ever so much better the way she was built — really lovely then. — Perhaps the Rev. Jasper C. should have asked for a little more divine guidance before he fiddled with her. KEN R
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No clue in the newspapers but almost certainly a 40hp (rated) 6 cylinder Red Wing of the same type that went into FRANGPANI which got two..
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It’s a good oldie looks like it’s almost on the plane what was its power
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Stunning image. Charles Collings at his very best.
What made Jasper Calder decide to put that dogbox of a bridgedeck on her?
Surely not divine inspiration?
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