CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT SPOTTING IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS

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CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT SPOTTING IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS

Last week I received a note from Denis O’Callahan, past owner of MV TASMAN, Denis commented  that he had been sailing in the Bay of Islands with his son Logan on his Farr 10.20 “Drums of Time”.

Logan wanted to explore the KeriKeri inlet in his newly refurbished wooden dinghy so they rowed up to the Stone Store, observing the many boats on pile berths along the way.

In the top photo we see the Brooke families Colin Wild launch LINDA, which resides in Kerikeri these days.

Later they were at Paradise Bay, Rangapukapuka and photographed the bridge-decker TAMAROA – link here to previous WW story on her https://waitematawoodys.com/2020/09/21/tamaroa/

Later in the trip they were at Matauwhi Bay anchored near the ketch/yawl – OKERE. History unknown, can we learn more.

Finally, as Denis was preparing to go ashore for the bus trip home they were anchored at Paihia near an old gaffer named FROLIC. 

Logan later leant that FROLIC is from Hobart and is preparing to head up into the Pacific soon.

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5 thoughts on “CLASSIC WOODEN BOAT SPOTTING IN THE BAY OF ISLANDS”

  1. I met up with Okere back in 1983 while waiting to transit the Panama Canal. I was in my Cavalier 32 returning to NZ completing a Circumnavigation. They had come down from transiting the Intercoastal Waterways. Okere had been on an extended Circumnavigation

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  3. Colin Grazules posted: Frolic from Cygnet, Tasmania, built Melbourne, 1870 planked with 2″ NZ kauri

    155 years old 🙂

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  4. Okere (Ferro) was built by Jack Hargreaves. Jack and Jocelyn live on Waiheke and have wintered over in Fiji for over 40 years.
    You probably know him.
    Regards
    Matt

    After knocking about on various charter boats and delivery trips, Jack had returned to New Zealand to build his own Herreshoff. “I built Okere in ferro-cement – she was launched the same day in 1972 that Herreshoff died. I always wondered if he died from the pleasure of having another one of his boats launched – or from the horror of having her built in ferro.”

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  5. The ketch Okere is to L. Francis Herreshoff’s Tioga/Bounty design and IIRC she’s ferro. I don’t actually know much about her, but one of my few remaining brain cells popped up the name Jack Hargreaves – perhaps her first owner or builder?

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