6 thoughts on “WEKA – 1”

1. Yeah I will. I’ve also randomly got loads pics of the Maro and Amakura on the 40’s which I will dig up.

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2. Hi Rod
   If you have any photos, can you email them to me and I’ll add to the story. Address below
   Waitematawoodys@gmail.com

   Many thanks

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3. The previous owner will be Wilf Weck. It was moored in the Mahurangi off Jamieson’s Bay in the early 1970’s. He had two Weka’s. My father (Greame Webber) bought the first Weka off Wilf in the mid 1970’s. It was hauled up onto the farm on the Pukapuka and dad did it up. We used it for cruising around Kawau and moored it on the Pukapuka. The cabin structure looked very different though, I’d need to check photos to verify which one we had. I recall dad selling it to someone on Waiheke. We had the best times in it. It was a good example I think of the simplest things often being the best. I’d figured it was long gone.

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4. Gordon Johnson bought a sub-divided section off my parents at North Harbour. He built a very modest house with some of the timber from the demolished Elephant House at Mansion house. In particular a solid octagonaly shaped centre post. He used to get monster schnapper in the cray pots and as a quirk of fate his son was alergic to fish. He hailed from Rhodesia and married a kiwi.

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5. “you don’t see many of those..” You do in New England…!

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6. Weka – 1 was built by Phil lange in the 60’s
   But not her original cabin

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