THE NORM FAIRLIE WOODEN BOAT FLOTILLA 

Todays woody story follows on from yesterdays story on the classic wooden launch TEMPEST, which we identified as being built by McGeady’s for Norm Fairlie.  

We learnt that Fairlie commissioned several wooden launches in the 1950’s > 1970’s period. Ken Rickets expanded on them and who built them, then sent in reference photos of the Fairlie boats, as we see above today.

Norm Fairlie would have had to be one of Auckland’s boatbuilding yards best customers.

Nice to see the ‘fleet’ all together for reference.