Waitangi Hotel – Mystery Launch – Quiz
Todays photo comes to us via Lew Redwood’s fb and the quiz is – name the launch in the middle of bay, out from the Hotel Waitangi.
All answers to waitematawoodys@gmail.com closes 6pm today (23-12-2022) All correct answer go into the draw – PRIZE is a 2023 Lake Rotoiti Classic & Wooden Boat Calendar.
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I was wondering of the whereabouts these days of a Baxter Built 24 ft half Cabin type pleasure boat. It had the first V8 Mercruiser in it to be imported into New Zealand when the boast was built in the late 1960’s. Also the first of its type was dark blue sides of the hull. Varished cabin sides and also the first of that size boat to be trailered in New Zealand.
Alec Nicol was the original owner. My late father, Alec Nicol told me that the V8 Mercruiser was replaced with Volvo Penta Diesel motors.
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I think it is Kwan Yin
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Obviously, in my view, one of the many Shipbuilders Ltd kitset hard chine double diagonal Kauri, Fibreglassed over, 28-34 footers, built completely by Shipbuilders themselves, or sold to owners, partly, or totally, in kitset form, to assemble themselves, in the 1960s BUT WHICH ONE???? — KEN R
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