WAIMEA
The launch Waimea popped up recently on trademe (thanks Ian McDonald). Very light of details around her designer / build / past but hopefully we can update this.What we do know is – she is 29’ , built from kauri (twin skin planking) and powered by a 65hp Perkins diesel engine. Current home is Waiheke Island.So woodys – anyone able to expand on her details.
Harold Kidd Input – It’s an early hull with rather large raised foredeck added. If I said “preposterous”, there would be an outcry on WW, so I won’t say it. There are several WAIMEAs, but this one is likely the WAIMEA owned in Howick by Withers pre-1914 and later was on the Manukau for many years. But there are so many WAIMEAs and with the probability of random name changes it is impossible to be certain of her provenance.
Yesterdays WW T-Shirt Winner = Jason Davies (MV Lucinda) . The correct names were left > right on the wharf – Leilani / Mairie / St Clair.
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Hey! My dad owned Waimea for about 10 years when we were kids and sold it in 2007/2009. I could be wrong. We mourned it in the Mahurangi harbour. It was such a great boat. I sent him this link in case he can shed some more light on the history of it.
Waimea was a great boat.
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Hi Graeme – send me a copy of the photo to the address below and I will add it to the WW story/ Cheers Alan
waitematawoodys@gmail.com
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I bought the Waimea last year after it popped up on trademe. She belonged to my grandfather who bought Waimea in Auckland and transported her over to the Kaipara and birthed in tinopai (I have an old photo of the waimea and recognised her on trademe). I’d love to know a bit more of the history.
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I went past this old girl this afternoon on the way to the the mussel farm at Coromandel. She is on a swing mooring in Kawakawa Bay.
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It’s an early hull with rather large raised foredeck added. If I said “preposterous”, there would be an outcry on WW, so I won’t say it. There are several WAIMEAs, but this one is likely the WAIMEA owned in Howick by Withers pre-1914 and later was on the Manukau for many years. But there are so many WAIMEAs and with the probability of random name changes it is impossible to be certain of her provenance.
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