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Manaia – A Peek Down Below

Posted on April 5, 2021 by Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder

MANAIA – A Peek Down Below

Manaia has made several appearance on WW, link below the backgrounds her early days . She was designed by Alex Collings and built in 1965 by Percy Vos. Now thanks to a nudge from Alan Sexton and tme – we get to see the results of some of the recent work on her. She is looking very smart for an ex Harbour Board Pilot boat 🙂

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Previous WW story link below
https://waitematawoodys.com/2018/01/26/manaia/

5 thoughts on “Manaia – A Peek Down Below”

Leroy on March 19, 2023 at 11:36 pm said:

Would love to see some original interior wheelhouse pics

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Armin Morrison on February 12, 2022 at 6:03 pm said:

Manaia was owned for a number of years by the late Robin (Rob) McKenzie. His family would be able to provide many stories of the work done on her and her escapades including a trip to Tonga.

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hdmlkuparu on April 7, 2021 at 9:47 pm said:

She is certainly a beautiful vessel

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vintagesteamer on April 5, 2021 at 8:00 am said:

Im looking intently at her chine aft and am wondering if Alex Collings copied that from Athol Burns who was designing a smaller fast workboat for WHB that had a noticeable downturn aft.
There was a designer’s model that Athol did (he did that sometimes) available on TradeMe years back and I missed out on it sadly. It had a very similar shape aft to seriously discourage squatting. Maybe Christine Webster (Athol’s niece) might pick up on this for us.

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Colin on April 5, 2021 at 7:09 am said:

Note Mt Mania in the background – great photo

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