CLASSIC WOODEN BOATS ENJOYING SUMMER CRUISING

THETIS – HAURAKI GULF
GAY DAWN – HAURAKI GULF
ROA -HAURAKI GULF
WAIARI – HAURAKI GULF
AOTEAROA – HAURAKI GULF
JUANITE & MARINUS – Oneroa
ARETHUSA – BOI
KOROWAI – BOI
POSEIDON – BOI
KAIKOURA – BOI
SOUTH SEAS – BOI
RAT BAG – BOI

CLASSIC WOODEN BOATS ENJOYING SUMMER CRUISING

Over the 2025/26 xmas / new year period a couple of woodys have been sending in photos of classic craft that they have seen out and about. Angus Rogers onboard the motor launch CENTAURUS has been mooching around the Coromandel / Bottom End of Waiheke Island and Murray Deeble on his Townson yacht MORGANA in the Bay of Islands. 

The evil weather we had around the 27th >31st keep a lot of boats in the marina and those out were not moving around much . Angus recorded winds of 68 knots in Te Kouma at anchor. 

Quite a few washed ashore and sales of SaltAway will be high this month with a lot of dinghies / outboards flipped over in the high winds. 

PHOTO BELOW FROM ABOARD CENTAURUS


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1 thought on “CLASSIC WOODEN BOATS ENJOYING SUMMER CRUISING

  1. Does anyone know if the pleasure craft AOTEAROA, as pictured above, is the one that in days gone by, was a ferry, back in the1950s era, plying Auckland to Kawau Island, & also doing the inner harbour as a night launch, in the pre harbour bridge days.

    She looks very, very, similar to me. — KEN R

    (photo added below. Alan H)

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