MYSTERY 43’ WELLINGTON LAUNCH
Todays woodys sat on tme for a while (thanks Ian McDonald) and has now been removed, hopefully sold.The vessel was promoted as a live aboard option and at $20k was low cost city pad.What we knew about her :
- 43ft bridgedecker launch
- Carvel kauri hull
- 120hp Ford diesel, with a few minor issues
- Cruises comfortably around 8 knots
Looking at the last two photos above as compared to the lead photo, she is in need of some TLC. Can we learn her name, designer/builder and what became of her.
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Bloody sad to contemplate the completion of her degredation by becoming a liveaboad and ignore-aboard. Oh Wise one, don’t put ideas into the heads of the great unflossed by advocating her for any other use than as a much loved and photographed (amongst other Woodys) boat.
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Not a mystery, it’s the Irihapeti-Nomad-Arawa-Rehutai finally completely rebuilt by Allen Williams at Milford into her near-current form. Detailed photos of the rebuild are on FB
Give us a hint – where on FB? Alan H
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Going by the name on the aft cabin bulkhead ‘Sea Spray,’ could it have been owned by a Bill Day from Wanaka? There is a Bill Day from that area who is a director of LandSAR and owns Seaworks, a marine services company.
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Looks like it may be the boat that became the LILLIAN but was originally the LILLIANA A for many years, when moored at the Sandspit, in the 50s to around the 70s. – KEN R
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