CLASSIC WOODEN 1927 EX WORKBOAT – OWAKA 

Todays photos come to us from John Dawson. We learnt more from an online search that popped up an old fb comment by Ray Morey where Ray told us OWAKA was built in 1927 by Collings & Bell in Auckland for service at Lyttelton. 

Ray also said that in the mid 1930’s she was re-powered with a Kelvin K9 engine. Then in the mid 1960’s she was re-powered agin with a D-Series Ford.

In another fb post Lew Redwood tagged the top photo above as being c.1950>69 and the location being Honeymoon Bay, Moturua, Bay of Islands (photographer – Ron Clark).

A July 2014 WW story featured a search by the son of an ex owner to learn more about his fathers boat. We uncovered an amazing amount of history and photos. Read/see at this link  https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/07/13/owaka-find-a-classic/

The last mention of her in the above post was in Jan 2019 when Nathan Herbert took the below photo from onboard his launch Pacific.

So woodys the question of the day is – what became of OWAKA post 2019.