LAKE TAUPO CLASSIC WOODY LAUNCH – ROMANCE – GETS SOME TLC
Todays woody story is really prompt to Paul Drake the owner of the Lake Taupo based 1914 Bailey & Lowe built launch – ROMANCE to send in a story on the recent upgrade.
If it had not been for woody Steve Pople (MV Royal Falcon) recently mooching around the Lake Taupo docks we wouldn’t have know she had received some TLC.
So fingers crossed Paul reads todays story and gets his ‘A into G’ 🙂
Lots photos and details on Romance in this Sept 2014 WW story https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/09/22/8829/
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The short version of the story, which I will tell when I have had a chance to catch my breath, is that we (the Drake brothers) slipped ROMANCE for a scheduled 6 month mid-life (hey, she’s only 112 years old) refit – in May 2023. Back in her berth just the other day, a few weeks short of 3 years in our shed, she is looking good and has nearly finished taking up. The Chrysler Ace and Feltham Twin are in fine fettle. Story and photos will follow in time!
Thank you vintagesteamer and cheers to you too.
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Cheers to the Drakes. Keep up the good work!
Hope she retains the Chrysler and Feltham. (Been years since I heard that brand.) Nice and quiet to the crew. Fresh water is much kinder to old machinery than salt ever was: especially when they are taken ashore and stowed under the house.
So much easier for the crew to live with despite the worry of fires.
Cheers once more.
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