waitematawoodys.com #1 for classic wooden boat stories, info, advice & news – updated daily

Dedicated to the study & appreciation of wooden boats. WaitemataWoodys® was founded upon a desire to tell the stories & a need to archive the history of our classic wooden boats, the craftsman who built them & characters that owned & crewed on them. To share – email your photos, video's & stories to Flora McKenzie at waitematawoodys@gmail.com – Special thanks to marine author & historian Harold Kidd. Click the follow button at the bottom right of the page to get email alerts on new & updated stories. WW gets a LOT of emails every day – we like that, but sometimes we just can't answer them all, it's not that we're lazy or rude – just busy working on the next story :-) alan houghton – WW founder ©2021

Felisa >> Whangatupere

Posted on March 27, 2022 by Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder

FELISA >> WHANGATUPERE

The 32’ launch Whangatupere started life named Felisa, designed for Stan Blonde by Gerry Lane and built by Phil Barton in St. Mary’s Bay, Auckland – and launched in 1949.

As Fiesta she has made several appearance on WW, the 2015 story has more details and photos – links below.

Now thanks to woody Eric Moore sending in the above we get to see recent photos of the launch, now renamed Whangatupere.

I love the small steadying sail – very salty 🙂 WW Jan 2015 https://waitematawoodys.com/2015/01/22/felisa/

WW Dec 2016 https://waitematawoodys.com/2016/12/06/mystery-launch-in-oneroa/

1 thought on “Felisa >> Whangatupere”

KEN RICKETTS on March 27, 2022 at 12:31 pm said:

Hopefully someone in the future will do as Arnold Baldwin did with VALSAN c1947 when he gave her back her original concept and heritage in full, when he changed her back to her original name of VALSAN, from Lady Edith. — KEN R

LikeLike

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this:

Share this:

Like this:

Related

1 thought on “Felisa >> Whangatupere”

Leave a Reply