Westhaven Marina 1969 – Who Owned the RR
The above 1969 photo popped up on fb back in June of this year – it would appear that the photographer is G Riethmaier and its ’saved’ in Archives NZ.
Quite a few woody yachts hauled out at the long gone area thats now board-walk – to me the stand out is the Rolls Royce casually parked amongst the cradles and trestles.
Any guesses as to the owner and which yacht it was linked to?
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Agree, it’s a Bentley. Lou Fisher had one at that time, 2 tone.
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S Series Bentley actually. I’d pip for (Sir) James Doig of UEB. Colin Wild’s fabulous Windhaven was his pride and joy in the late ’60s.
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Boat on the far right Edward Allcards ketch theSea Wanderer.
Edward was the first to solo the Atlantic both ways if memory serves me correctly.
My father did a keel bolt replacement on her after snapping most by hand after she came from the Horn.
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Who is the K? Waiomo?
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Small boat between the yotts is the Reelemin (ii).
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The mullet boat in the center looks like the LOVELIGHT L24 the widest 22 ever built 10ft 6 beam lost off colville channel. the larger one the right looks like the 26 H 11 BLUE STREAK. Those were the days when anybody could afford to keep a boat in westhaven and haul out at minimal cost. Have we progressed ? RON C
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Agree with Ken its a Bentley, interesting Sea Angel ketch in front of it too. If the boat on the grid behind the K class is one of the Caracats maybe its the caravan mans car…..
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I know Ron Neil…owner of the Stewart 42 CARMEN had a roller about then,,,,not sure why it would be parked in that corner though
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i loved the haulout area. our boat was built with salvaged nails and screws and paint sanded back with repurposed sandpaper.
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When I was young – I’m now 59 ,dad used to haul a yacht out at Chas Bailey’s every year . The owner was a doctor and always turned up in his RR of this era with a bed mattress tied to the roof will scaffolding on top so he could do his maintenance over the weekend . His RR was all black which this one looks two tone
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Ron Kingsnorth, (Japanese Bath-house) or Doug Meyers? (Lion) (maybe Ken R, he’s a fan of RRs and boats)
Didn’t see a lot of rollers in those days.(Silver Cloud model?)
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The car in the image, is either a RR Silver Cloud, or an “S type” Bentley, .both built in the1950s & earlier to mid 60s.
They look virtually identical except that the RR has a fairly high standing bulky “Spirit Of Ecstasy” & (the mascot on the top of grill) & of course the RR grill & the Bentley has a much lower profile “winged B” emblem,& it appears to me, when I enlarged it, that that car appears to have a low profile mascot, & am virtually certain it is actually an “S Type” Bentley,.– KEN R
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