What Became Of Raruhoa RENUHOU
Todays woody comes to us from the Tauranga Library collection via Dean Wright. The photo is tagged – Raruhoa and dated April 1963.
Quite a distinctive craft being a double ender so fingers crossed we can learn more about her and whether she is still afloat.
I assume that the location is Tauranga but I’m not familiar with the area so hopefully someone can confirm the location as well.
UPDATE ex Nathan Herbert – seems the library got the name wrong – its named Renuhou and sadly ended up as a land based sleep-out/shed. Full details at the 2014 storylink below
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Can someone please tell me the dimensions of the Renuhou. My Father George Hemsley’s boat was also a double ender and would have been built about the same era and in Auckland. This was such a popular design that I understand maybe five similar boats were built at the time. I would love to find when and where Dad’s boat was built. I am writing her history, I have the end of the story (she is still going strong) I have some of her history in between but I would dearly like to be able to write her beginning.
Thank You
Carol Jukes
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I knew Renahou at that period when she was owned by Warren Harris of Otemoetai. The box on the aft deck was for ice and product, he tried long lining out off Mayor Island, mostly for hapuka. She had a big old 4 cylinder Perkins industrial engine,not the “P” series. I think there is more info on her game-fishing days in the book “The scream of the reel” I think she was out of survey when Warren owned her.
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She is Renuhou from other posts
Thanks for that, now a sleep-out 🙂 Alan H
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Background is the Strand in Tauranga.
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