MYSTERY COROMANDEL CLASSIC WOODEN LAUNCH
My spotter Ian McDonald sent in todays photo ex the Auckland heritage collection via fb.
The photo was tagged ‘A motorboat at an unidentified location on the Coromandel Peninsula’. Stapley Farmer, 1960’s.
And that woodys is all we know. Her appearance / finish has that workboat look. Keen to learn more about the vessel and whether she is still around.
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WAIHOU.Waihou river work boat.D front and rounded cabin roof.Later reconfigured as a Bridge Decker.Seen on this site,sitting in a paddock,down the line?
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Comment ex Ken Ricketts – she looks very much as if she could have been called the LOLA owned for a great many years by the Connell family of Connells Bay Waiheke & used as their transport for the shop they ran for a great many years.
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Possibly ex Thames Harbor Board launch, later renamed Marlin and owned by Alf Clow of Whitianga.
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The hull looks like Ernie Seagars Waka Iti that he retrieved from Coromandel in the 1970’s. It was a work boat that had towing bollards on the back, they were removed during its restoration at Baileys. Unfortunately it fell into poor ownership, sunk through no fault of the boat and was sold on a year or so ago.
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