CAN WE NAME THESE YACHTS – Prize To Be Won – XANTHO & ILEX

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CAN WE NAME THESE YACHTS – Prize To Be Won – XANTHO & ILEX

Must be overdue for a quiz – the photo above was taken on Christmas morning 1905, location is Russell in the Bay of Islands. ID’ing the two yachts will be a challenge to most of the WW crew but I’m sure the stick & rag woodys will work it out. So to make it slightly easier – correctly ID’ing each yacht equals a chance in the draw i.e. get one right = one chance, two right = two chances. Close off is 8pm 19-04-2024. ENTRY BY EMAIL ONLY to >>>>

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23-04-2024 INPUT ex HAROLD KIDD – The 40 footer XANTHO was launched as XANTHE in Wellington in 1888 by Henry Berg using timbers from the dismantled yacht MINNEHAHA. She was traded in to Robert Logan in part exchange for WAITANGI which he sailed down to Wellington and won the NZ Championship in January 1895. He sailed XANTHE back to Auckland in the smart time of 7 days and put her up for sale. There were no takers until 1897 and she lay off Devonport with the rig out when one Spraggon bought her. She was driven ashore at Devonport and badly damaged soon after. She was sold in April 1898 to G. Cook of Whangarei. The pic with ILEX was taken at Russell around 1905. I have no clues on what happened to XANTHE/XANTHO/ZANTHE/ZANTHO after that. Possibly she was converted to a launch?

She was considered incredibly old fashioned by the time she was launched and had the cod’s head and mackerel tail of earlier yachts and a large camber on the deck.

PRIZE: A WW burgee 

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  1. The 40 footer XANTHO was launched as XANTHE in Wellington in 1888 by Henry Berg using timbers from the dismantled yacht MINNEHAHA. She was traded in to Robert Logan in part exchange for WAITANGI which he sailed down to Wellington and won the NZ Championship in January 1895. He sailed XANTHE back to Auckland in the smart time of 7 days and put her up for sale. There were no takers until 1897 and she lay off Devonport with the rig out when one Spraggon bought her. She was driven ashore at Devonport and badly damaged soon after. She was sold in April 1898 to G. Cook of Whangarei. The pic with ILEX was taken at Russell around 1905. I have no clues on what happened to XANTHE/XANTHO/ZANTHE/ZANTHO after that. Possibly she was converted to a launch?

    She was considered incredibly old fashioned by the time she was launched and had the cod’s head and mackerel tail of earlier yachts and a large camber on the deck.

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