Souvenir – Work-boat Wednesday

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SOUVENIR – Work-boat Wednesday

Back in March 2020 whilst mooching around the Whangarei Town Basin one of the craft I photographed was he ex work-boat – Souvenir (my photo below).

Early this week Ant Smit was also walking the docks and sent in the above photos of Souvenir.

Can we learn more about this vessel – when I ask the question “does it move” I know I leave myself open for a side-swipe but every time I’m at the basin she is there.

INPUT ex Dean Wright – Photo below ex Dean dated xmas 2021, location – Army Bay.

Dean also forward comments from John Gander – “Souvenir was designed by Roger Carey for Erskin Neame a Blenheim fisherman, built in 1954 by Curnow and Wilton Nelson Boatbuilders. And powered with a 6L3 Gardner. For a number of years after launching Erskin with his crew Frank Derbyshire trawled out from the Wairau bar. She was later to be seen fishing out of many South Island ports.”

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  2. So I don’t remember correctly after all 🙂 but John Gander will be correct.
    Have no memory of Frank Derbyshire as a fisherman, but knew him slightly as a boatbuilder; he built himself a very nice little Maurice Griffiths designed cutter of around 30′, and also built a bare hull to a Roger Carey design for my uncle Mervyn Bishell, in Mervyn’s barn.

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  5. I just spoke to Chubby who bought Souvenir about 50 yesterday ago when he was 25 and owned her for 36 years. Carey designed, built by Curnow and Wilton for a fisherman called Erskine Neam about 1955/56. There is a book on the boat recording when the 6L3 Gardner was first started in 1956. Had a couple of rebuilds but still going strong after thousands of hrs. Chubby said he would do between 2 and 3 thousand hrs a year when tuna fishing and fishing the Hokitika trench.

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  7. Roger Carey designed but not built by Careys, sorry can’t remember the builder, owned by Ian permanent live aboard who keeps her in very good original condition. Was previously owned by Chubby another mate of mine who fished with her out of Greymouth and all round the south island for years. From memory 6L3 Gardner powered. Yes she cruises a bit I’ve seen her out and about.

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