Mahurangi Regatta 2018 – Classic Woodys Weekend – 100+ photos
For the first time in yonks I missed the regatta, my excuse – I was boating elsewhere. Today’s photo gallery comes to you from numerous sources – but special mention to Jason Prew, Peter Loughlin & Nathan Herbert for sharing their cameras with us. Stunning photos guys. Mixed in with their photos are ones from – James Dreyer, Nick Davidson, Ken Ricketts, & John Bertenshaw.
The Classic Launch Parade had a great mix of familiar favourites & some new CYA members & a few who have not seen the light & joined the CYA yet 🙂 . From all reports, the sailing on Saturday was a challenge with wind / no wind / wind & very hot conditions – but as always with Mahurangi a good time was had by all.
As always – click photos to enlarge 😉
Great Video Footage below – the launch parade starts at approx. the 3min stage.
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New video footage of the weekend added. Great coverage of the Launch Parade
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Search the name on WW, lots of photos there 😉 Alan
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I’ve got images of TE HONU I took during her refit — if you like to email me I will send them to you Raydar – email is kennetharicketts@gmail.com — KEN R
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ps and it was thanks to Harold Kidd and his articles and letters published in Boating New Zealand that Corsair was found.
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Hello Rhodes 33
Delighted that you like wee Corsair :0) She’s had a lot of love go into her! She is a delight to sail.
She was built in 1946 for my grandfather, Don Winstone, and named after the planes he flew in WWII. The Frostbite class was designed in 1938 by Jack Brooke, and Corsair was built by him too. A few years back I tracked her down – derelict, but pretty much whole, in Nelson. We knew it was Corsair from the name let / inlaid into the middle thwart and the Corsair aeroplane profile in the for’d thwart. Teak in Kauri. Kauri hull. Oregon spars. Pohutukawa knees. Mahogany cappings. Teak and kauri floor grate. Australian hardwood rudder stock and kauri rudder. Kahikatea centre-board (from her time in the Waikato?). Mahogany mast supports. Brian Kidson who had owned did a good deal of work preparing and restoring the hull before she came north to Auckland for the woodwork to be completed by Jack’s son, master wooden boatbuilder Robert Brooke.
We restored the chrome hardware (Onehunga Electro Platers / Bumper Repairs – brilliant), re-created missing elements (Morris Sheet Metal and another engineer) including the lettering on the stern, restored the original 1946 mast, Frank Warnock created a traditional sail by hand, and I did the low-skill bits, and brought it all together. Ropes from Classic Marine in the UK. Other parts from Harken Fosters.
Robert designed a period road trailer with 1939 pressed steel Standard 10 wheels that I found on Trademe (Marlborough Sounds), and a friend who is a sculptor, David McCracken, made the trailer. I believe the Frostbite was NZ’s first specifically-designed trailer class – with it’s split / gunter rig – so a period trailer and launching trolley are part of it. It was the last class designed that you sit in, rather than on.
Robert’s lifetime of experience and eye resulted in what you can see – from the handmade wooden blocks, fine plank lines, floating thwarts, the traditional flick-bailer, right up to the pheasant feather pennant / wind vane atop the mast.
The colour is Eau de N’il – Water of the Nile – with a forest green waterline. My grandfather liked green – he also had a runabout named Amber (1950s 17 foot Greymarine engine) with a green waterline. Traditional white below the waterline. The interior is white house-paint up to the thwarts which sets off the varnish above that.
We don’t tend to race – wooden blocks, wooden grate, 1946 mast and rudder… but do sail off Narrowneck in Auckland, and Tutukaka, Ngunguru and Whangaumu Bay up north.
I put together a small book on the restoration – a few years ago now. The aim was to get her to A level condition – which we did, and she won the best restoration at the Lake Rotoiti (Nelson) classic boat show – and then to just enjoy her. She’s a delight to sail. Predictable, responsible and beautifully balanced. On the wind in a chop a for’d hand is useful for bailing!
Cheers
Paul Baragwanath
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Can anyone tell me about the wee class dinghy (frostbite?) Corsair? She is absolutely stunning – bright work, chrome hardware, color choice and the transom lettering made her my pick of the show. What a little honey.
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I was guilty of not using the WW library – after looking up the story you mentioned I could only find a very distant photo of her in the actual parade. I’ll email that to you. Alan
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Hi Alan. Te Honu appeared in an article on Waitemata Woody’s on 25th August 2015 with some pre-restoration photos. She is currently painted all white without the blue stripe on the flybridge and at present is without the stainless bowrail.
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It’s got Te Honu on the cabin sides would be your first clue 😛
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Hi – I’ll look thru the photos I have been sent, to help, can you describe Te Honu. Alan H
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Hi Guys, are there any photos of the launch Te Honu that took part in the classic launch parade. It was the first time that she participated in the parade following the significant renovation that was undertaken on her.
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Beautiful boats – beautiful pictures! Thank You.
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Great photos Alan. Always of interest to us southern guys
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Small oops – b4 I posted this story, I added a few more photos to the draft, but in the process some how accidentally deleted some of the Launch ones that were already there. After posting, I noticed the missing photos & re-added them. So if classic launches ring your bell – resist the story 🙂
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