WHISKEY HILL – Looking for help to identify this wooden boat
If you haven’t discovered it, there is a very cool fb page titled ‘ Sitting There Rotting, Help Save Me’ lots of junk on there but the occasional woody that deserves a 2nd chance.
Todays woody is named – Whiskey Hill (pretty good chance there has been a name change) and that all we know about her. The story comets us via a Lew Redwood link.
Can anyone throw some light on the vessel.
ORDER HERE https://waitematawoodys.com/2021/11/11/58095/
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Fred Hisdich replaced the GULF STAR With the VARLENE in the 1980s — KEN R
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Problem with FB posts re-posted within FB is comments are lost. This is the Gulf Star (unlikely original name either) seem on WW in various posts. I have her at the earliest as moored off Mechanic’s Bay as a bridgedecker with a dark hull and illegible large number on bow, perhaps starting with Q.
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She is the CIRRUS – LADY ELWYN – GULF STAR, feartured a couple of times before on WW link below.
Had a Ford V8 & 120 HP Ford diesel in her engine ancestry. The Ford V8 when Willie Smith & owned her, in the 1960s & he prided himself on the fact, that the engine ran on salt water, & it ran so cold he could sit on top of it when it was running, after a 4 hour run, as it ran so cold (makes the eyes water!!) — he did not have any idea that a petrol engine should run at least aorund 140degrees F., & also Fred Hildich, who was a dedicated Coastguard member & she did much service for Fred H., & the Coastguard with her 120 HP Ford Diesel, Fred worked for a Ford agent in Auckland, so hence, he fitted the Ford Diesel. — KEN R (edited by AH)
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