PAIKEA
Two weeks ago my Westhaven spy sent my the 2 photos above of the 1921 Collings & Bell built launch Paikea hauled out at Westhaven for some TLC and then I spotted her back on her mooring in Bayswater looking very smart.
Thanks to Harold Kidd we know she was launched on 26th January 1921. She was fitted with a 120-150hp Model M Van Blerck 6 cylinder petrol engine (not a straight-eight Packard as is often said). Paikea had Chas. Collings’ “concave-convex” type of hard chine design which he made famous with his various Fleetwings and whale-chasers. Indeed she was a refinement of the Fleetwing whose image appears in the Collings & Bell section of WW. She was good for 20 knots and can still do it with her present big Iveco/Fiat, as Harold experienced at Sandspit. He commented the she goes like hell and stable with it.Alf Court sold her to Hec Marler in 1925 and he sold her to R B & S S Wilson just pre-WW2. She was in NAPS during WW2 as Z17.
You can view more photos of her here
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Her older sister can be made available to an approved buyer.
Cant get any more pedigree than “Fleetwing”.
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Used to belong to Arthur, ( Bluey), Innes, Auckland car dealer, for a number of years after he sold the McGeady built AWATERE. – He had PAIKEA in the later 70s 80s — KEN R
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A proper boat and very nice in the flesh.
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Keith owned Paikea some years ago… great memories…
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