CYGNET – CLASSIC 1931 WOODEN LAUNCH
The 32’ classic wooden launch – CYGNET recently popped up on tme (thanks Ian McDonald). A Sam Ford design built in 1931, but not sure is also built be Sam Ford. As per most Marlborough Sounds craft she is very well spec’ed and was re-powered in 2006 with a new 53hp Yammer 4JH5E engine that gives her an 8 knot cruising speed.
Can we learn more about CYGNET (if thats her correct name) and where she has been most of her life.
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Cygnet
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We bought Cygnet in 1987 from Kaye Thode, she was at Milford Marina and a bit shabby, powered by a 64hp Ford diesel. Our first launch so we loved our time on her and we’re very grateful for the use of a boat shed where we stripped her to bare wood and finished a complete exterior refit adding a wooden mast to replace existing aluminium one
She had been owned for a long time by R A Johnston and was originally a bridge decker, we were told that John Gladden did a lot of work on her. We sold her to a couple in Christchurch and she went to Lyttleton on a coastal ship
Nice to see her still alive and well
Steve and Rhonda Knight
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