Linda – 1927 – Colin Wild
Nautilus – Oliver & Gilpin
Darleen – 1920 – Possibly Bailey & Lowe
Echo – 1935 – Les Coulthard
Echo – 1935 – Les Coulthard
Echo – 1935 – Les Coulthard
Thetis – 1955 – Lane Motor Boat Company
Lady Crossley – 1947 – Colin Wild
Lady Ngaio – 1928 – Collings & Bell
Manapouri – 1960 – Parkes
Omega – 1965 – Quality Boats
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WOODYS CRUISING THE BAY OF ISLANDS – SUMMER 2019/20 – Part 1
Just got home yesterday from 10 days mooching around Waiheke and while clearing the in-box I spotted an email from Dean Wright, now Dean is a Bay of Islands based professional photographer with a passion for wooden boats. He even owns one – the 1917, Arethusa.
Now any email from Dean normally contains some stunning photos and yesterdays one was a cracker – too good to run all as one, so I will split them in two.
Today we have featured pleasure launches – the first being one of the smartest classic wooden launches in our fleet – Linda. She has appeared on WW many times so if you want o know more just enter Linda in the WW search box.
I love the photo above because its the personification of our classic wooden boating movement.
Below I have included a photo of the 2018/19 built ‘spirit of tradition’ launch – Grace, and with her beautiful lines, she could only ever be a Salthouse 🙂
I have captioned the Woodys that I have been able to ID. To read more on the boats featured, use the WW search box 😉
Grace – 2019 – Salthouse
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which begs the question, what has happened to the sth island Thetis, she was on trademe for a while in a derelict condition…. anyone know where she is and how she’s geting on now?
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Thetis 1929 Wm Hand USA??? Don’t think so somehow. A slip of the editorial mouse or an auto correct. Maybe the first Thetis wuz, but this is Thetis ll Lane Motorboat Co who has often appeared in WW and has her special reference (qv).
Oops – corrected, was falling asleep at the keyboard last light – WW searched the wrong Thetis – thanks for picking that up. Alan H
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