MANUWAI – A Peek Down Below

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MANUWAI – A Peek Down Below

Back in April 2015 the 31’ launch – Manuwai made an appearance on WW, (link below to that story). 

WW April 2015 https://waitematawoodys.com/2015/04/23/manuwai/

At the time her then owner Paul Kerr-Hislop was looking to confirm some of the intel he had been told about the boat i.e. that Manuwai was built in Porirua in 1960 by a Paul Bradey for the Mexted family of Tawa to a Shipbuilders design. We learnt that she was LOA 30’8” with a beam 10’6”. She has a 1 1/4” kauri planked hull which has a hard chine and flat bottom towards the stern presumably to enable semi-planing. A 140hp 135T Perkins diesel engine gave a cruising speed of 9>10 knots and a top speed of around 13 knots.

Now thanks to Ian McDonald pointing out a recent tme listing we get to have a better gander down below.

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  1. This is obviously later than the MANUWAI of the n the 1920s now at Lake Rotoiti & is one of the many kitset hard chine double diagonal kauri boats built wholly or partially, or as a kitset, by Shipbuilders during the early to mid 1960s There are a large number of them, ranging from 28 to 34 feet but this is one of h best examples I’ve seen – Almost didn’t recognize it.
    — KEN R

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