NGAWINI
I headed out on Sunday afternoon for a few hours to give Raindance’s batteries a charge & when coming back into Bayswater I spotted what appeared to be classic wooden launch on the Mercury Mover barge. Closer inspection revealed a 26>28′ straight stem tram topper.
The name Ngawini was on her side & she had quite significant damage to her bow & underwater bow area. Looked as if she had ran into some submerged item. Aside from the damage she appears to be very original. Hopefully insured & repairable.
Any woodys know more about her past & what happened to her?
UPDATE – she has been on ww before – see below & also link to more details.
UPDATE 2 + photos
“Aaron here from The Recycle Shop at the Waitakere Transfer station. Hey we’ve seen the photos of the lovely boat Ngawini on your site. We’ve got the boat sitting here on our yard and wondered if you might be able to help us find it a new home?
We’ve had a couple of people offer advice on what some of the fittings are worth and we’d like to offer the whole boat for $2000 if the buyer takes it away, or $2300 if they want to strip parts and leave the rest here (leaving us to pay approx $300 to dump it).”
I have been contacted by Aaron at the Waitakere Refuse & Recycling Centre & told that they have listed Ngawini on trademe (link below) as a ‘parts’ listing. Bidding is set to start at $1,200, it will be interesting, some cool pieces but what the market is prepared to pay is any ones guess.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1342362960&ed=true
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someone pushed buy now for $1250…. seems a bargain
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Just listing again on trademe, as parts this time. Link in the main story
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I understand she was barged back from the Barrier. Still keen to hear what happened to her?
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Even his matches would struggle to light that one now
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so punny 😛
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Very sad.
On a lighter note- one for Tom
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well, thats a huge project…. so sad
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Tragic loss of history.
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Salvage details + 12 photos added. Alan H
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Very pretty launch, hope someone does the right thing and saves her….
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Bugger – I’m, guilty of doing a Ken Rickett’s e.g. not checking past ww stories – check out this link, even sadder now that I have seen how smart she was 😦
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PS I wonder if NGAWINI was named after that remarkable Aupouri lady Ngawini Yates of Parengarenga? Perhaps a descendant?
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Baden Pascoe reported her in Whangarei in 2011. A name change for sure.
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