HAUTONGA
Todays woody is the launch Hautonga, pictured above at Warkworth, on the Mahurangi River. photos ex Ken Rickets.
Can anyone help out & supply more info on her? I have to say that her ‘upper level’ (I’m trying to be polite) looks like is was designed for Cook Strait crossings 🙂
Harold Kidd Input: “Hautonga” = South Wind (actually South was up to the Polynesians/Maoris so was “North Wind”).
No comments on her aesthetics but there was a HAUTONGA in Auckland in 1966 owned by R C Weaver of Matai Road Green Lane and in 1973 by E W Barnard of Waiata Ave.
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Gary Barnard here if you wish to contact for more details.
Hello Gary – email details and any photos you may have to the address below and we will add to the story. Thank You Alan H
waitematawoodys@gmail.com
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Yes please . Can you email details to me on
waitematawoodys@gmail.com
Cheers. Alan H
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this was my friends (Garry Barnard) dads boat, he has photos and knows all about her from this time, if you want I can put you onto him, 027
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Did she go on the rocks at mackenzie bay, rangitoto?
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Good old spell check. Corrects your name everytime😄
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You’ve short changed me on the “T”s again
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Oliver and Gilpin hull?
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“Hautonga” = South Wind (actually South was up to the Polynesians/Maoris so was “North Wind”).
No comments on her aesthetics but there was a HAUTONGA in Auckland in 1966 owned by R C Weaver of Matai Road Green Lane and in 1973 by E W Barnard of Waiata Ave.
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We saw Houtonga berthed in Havelock North marina in 2005 and at that time was keenly for sale.
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