SMOKE & MIRRORS – A Peek Down Below
Todays 51’ woody – Smoke & Mirrors, made a cameo appearance on WW back in Oct 2017 (link below) – then she was named – Christopher Grey and both Nathan Herbert and Russell Ward supplied photos. Thanks to a tme listing (ex Ian McDonald) we get to have a peek below decks.
Designed and built by Millar & Tunnage in 1964 she started life as a commercial fishing boat based in the bottom half of NZ and after 20 odd years as a trawler and crawfishing workboat was converted to pleasure use. In her ’new’ configuration she went north and was available for charter out of Auckland’s Waitemata Harbour. She then returned south to her home town of Port Chalmers.
A 175hp Gardner engine provides her forward propulsion.
A very salty woody that make a very comfortable live-aboard, particularly with that large galley stove 🙂
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Wow , she sure is beautiful
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I am sure with some in-depth study she was designed by Steve Carey who build boats almost next door. Shame she had a name change, to me this name suits a soulless plastic boat. Engine is an 8LXb
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