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Mystery Launch Off Devonport Yacht Club – Raumati II > Moeraki

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder

MYSTERY LAUNCH OFF DEVONPORT YACHT CLUB – Raumati II > Moeraki

Todays mystery launch photo comes to us via Mitchell Hutchings fb from the Parsonson Family collection.

There appears to be a working-bee underway at the Devonport Yacht Club on what must be the western slipway.

The Mason Clipper in the photo must help date the photo.

19-10-2022 INPUT FROM FRANK WARNOCK – ~~I am almost certain that the launch in Mondays report moored off the Devonport Yacht Club was Happy Wanderer owned by John Senior.~~ The working bee was replacing a rail on the Western slipway or cementing an existing one back after a storm. The date would be the 1960s.

30-10-2022 INPUT ex Nathan Herbert – the vessel is Raumati II > Moeraki

2023 TALL SHIPS REGATTA – DETAILS BELOW

6 thoughts on “Mystery Launch Off Devonport Yacht Club – Raumati II > Moeraki”

harold531harold on October 24, 2022 at 3:39 pm said:

If it is HAPPY WANDERER she has been here before as LADY MARGARET the name which John Senior put on her which has caused endless confusion since. She was built by L. Deacon in 1955 and is now at Picton.

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Alan Houghton - waitematawoodys.com founder on October 19, 2022 at 8:48 pm said:

Launch details added. Alan H

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Janet Warnock. on October 19, 2022 at 6:43 pm said:

I8

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Nath on October 18, 2022 at 8:09 am said:

My guess is a Fleetcraft Voyager and Raumati II

I think you are right re Raumati II . Alan H https://waitematawoodys.com/2017/01/17/raumati-ii-same-boat/

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murray on October 18, 2022 at 7:46 am said:

I dont believe that is a Mason Clipper

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Mitchell Hutchings on October 18, 2022 at 7:05 am said:

Good morning Alan. Hopefully somebody can identify the mystery launch above. Just a small request – could you please correct the spelling of my uncle’s name. He was Peter Parsonson, a twice-serving Commodore of the Devonport Yacht Club and a life member. Happily for the boating community, he left many hundreds of slides and photographs of boating activities, especially of DYC and North Shore activities. Cheers

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