Mystery Thames Wooden Launch
Earlier in the week WW was contacted by Patrick Fyers who sent in the above photo. Patrick commented that the boat was built by Wharepoa farmer / boatbuilder – Arthur John Innis. He built 3 kauri planked boats.sometime between 1917>1920.
In the photo we see her being drawn along Pollen St, Thames on skids by Clydesdale horse. The destination is the Curtis Wharf at Grahamstown.
The original photo was supplied by Dudley Troughton, Innis’s grandson..
Patrick obtained the photo from a friend whose great uncle built the launch (I assume thats A J Innis)
Note- the photo is vaguely familiar, may have appeared on WW before but I’m unable to find it)
YESTERDAYS QUIZ – No winner. The launches name is – ROYANA, she was designed and built by Woollcott in 1949. Powered by a Yanmar 3JH. Home is Stillwater, Auckland. People were all over the place re design / build – Shipbuilders, Hartley, Parris, Jackson, Frank Pelin and more 🙂
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I sent in a pic of the photo that was hanging in a Coromandel cafe – same one from memory
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She has elsewhere been named as the Myrtle(Innis’ youngest daughter) but may be confused with his 1905 30 footer. This boat is 40+. She is seen through to the later 50s in images/video with a curvaceous high rear dodger added and a pop-up rounded for’d bridge deck. Was moored at Westhaven in that era, then disappears from images. Compared with surrounding moored boats she looked about 42-45ft.
https://waitematawoodys.com/2016/09/18/mystery-launch-a-few-yachts/
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