Wairoa River / Clevedon Drive By Tour
On the weekends Woodys Classic Weekend cruise to the Clevedon Cruising Club I had the services of a cabin boy (relax, he’s my neibour) so I handed the wheel to him for most of the trip up the river. This freed me up to snap some of the moored wooden craft, I’m sure a few might be f/glass or even steel – but still an amazing collection ’semi-hidden’ away, that us Auckland marina dwellers never see.
Enjoy the tour. AND make sure you check out the last photo below – seems the CYA A Class skippers have been playing bumper boats again.
Seems the CYA Classic A Class Fleet Are Playing Crash & Bash Again
One of the classic launch owners returning to their berth in Westhaven from the weekends Woodys Clevedon cruise – spotted a wee hole in Little Jim. Comment was it had the dimensions of a bow-sprite.
Fingers crossed the culprit has good insurance………… A review of the RNZYS results page for Saturdays racing shows two classics with a DNF alongside their names – being Little Jim and Rawene, chances are that tells you the other vessel.
Things like this probably contribute to why only approx. 6% of the CYA classic yacht fleet race (outside of one-off events like the Mahurangi Regatta) their craft. Too much testosterone is a bad thing with a car steering wheel or yacht tiller in your hand – then again maybe it was too much oestrogen this time?
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The “Capella” is an Alden design, built (IIRC) by Roger Carey. The second keeler, with the blue sheerstrake and sail covers is an American boat, GRP and I think built in Taiwan.
Next down, the launch with the upswept waterline is, I think, a Mainship; American again and GRP. The keeler further down looks to be a Camelot and almost certainly built of the “other GRP” – Ground-up Rocks & Pebbles, aka ferro.
The red fishing boat style launch is probably steel, or, as I think of it “laminated rust”.
As for the trimaranthing in the last pic………..!! NOT an offshore cruiser 🙂 About the only positives are that the gottage is probably quite spacious, and at least she has a dog on board.
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