CLASSIC EX WOODEN WHALE CHASER – ALBATROSS
Today we have another story from Sven Wiig and the Ryland family album. The woody above is named ALBATROSS and apparently she was an ex whale chaser, owned at the time of the photo by Harry Ryland. In the photo we see ALBATROSS towing two waterskiers on ‘aquaplanes’ on the Wanganui River as featured in the newspaper clipping.
For not a very large craft, ARIZONA must have had a powerful engine, those aquaplane boards would take a fair degree of zoom zoom to get on the plane.
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we called them toboggans and went much slower than when waterskiing. the kids and grandkids still drag them out occasionally..
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Aquaplaning took place at lower speeds than waterskiing, so didn’t need all that much power. (Or skill 🙂 Great fun back in the day though.
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