MYSTERY WOODEN BOAT – 09-08-2024 – REO
Todays photo comes to us from the Tauranga City Library collection and is tagged ’the-rio’. Doing a WW search on the word rio doesn’t show any vessels that look like todays woody.
Can we learn more, the stern set-up says workboat, so maybe converted to pleasure use at some stage and a name change.
INPUT ex RAY MOREY – Its “REO” built as line boat for the Reotahi Freezing works in Whangarei harbour. This view after a massive rebuild and re-power by Tauranga H.B. engine was a Detroit 4-53 and the gantry frame for servicing moorings
INPUT ex HAROLD KIDD – Ray is right, it’s REO run by the Tauranga Harbour Board for many years from 1923 as a pilot boat. Built by Bailey & Lowe 1903. Was in Whangarei until 1923. More recently in Tutukaka.
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try Rio Rita?
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No, Ray is right, it’s REO run by the Tauranga Harbour Board for many years from 1923 as a pilot boat. Built by Bailey & Lowe 1903. Was in Whangarei until 1923. More recently in Tutukaka.
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Rio Rita was the mail boat in Queen Charlotte Sounds for many, it was renamed Resolution when it was bought by the owner of Resolution Bay Cabins
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That be the “REO” built as line boat for the Reotahi Freezing works in Whangarei harbour. This view after a massive rebuild and repower by Tauranga H.B. engine was a Detroit 4-53 and the gantry frame for servicing moorings
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try Rio Rita?
Not sure about that – see below photo. Alan H
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