KONINI – A Peek Down Below
Todays woody slips onto WW primarily because home of the 34’ launch – Konini is Queenstown and thats where I am today. Thanks to a tme listing back in Nov 2023 (via Ian McDonald) we learnt that Konini started life as a fishing boat from the east coast of the South Island. Her owner back in 2023 bought it from a fisherman in Bluff. Her hull is double skin kauri plank and the cabin and wheelhouse were rebuilt about c.2017.
A 51hp Perkins 4.108 pushes her along at 6>7 knots. I’m sure she gets some sideways looks from tourists onboard the TSS Earnslaw, but as they say – ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ 🙂
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She was KONINI when for sale at Bluff in 2012. Many KONINI’s including one built by E R Lane at Picton in 1919.
Her tme listing (below) had her as Konini, but when enlarging the vessel photo the N’s do look like ‘R’s . Alan H
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I think the name is Koriri not Konini.
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