ENTRY LEAVE CLASSIC WOODEN LAUNCH – WANDERING WAYS

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ENTRY LEAVE CLASSIC WOODEN LAUNCH – WANDERING WAYS

Todays classic launch needs some serious TLC from someone with the space to park her and a winter of part-time work but come next summer they could have a no cost entry into the classic wooden boating movement.

What we know – 36’ supposedly built in 1965 by ‘Baileys’, she is double planked, and powered by a 120hp Ford diesel (tme listing states 2014, and recently recon’ed).

WANDERING WAYS is currently hauled out in Rotorua, so may have been a lake boat in recent years. (thanks to Ian McDonald for the heads up)

Can we learn anymore about the launch.

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4 thoughts on “ENTRY LEAVE CLASSIC WOODEN LAUNCH – WANDERING WAYS”

  2. Lovely boat. Hope she is/has been saved.

    BTW, O woody one, on the posting, you have put a picture “Slip the Lines” showing a fine boat with a proper (ie pointed) stern flying a RNZYS burgee from the ensign staff.

    In the old days (of my youth), that would have brought an RNZYS member a sharp letter of rebuke from the secretary. Only a red ensign would be flown aft -or a blue ensign if you had a royal warrant.

    How we used to laugh but squadron members were always strong on flag etiquette. Flags down at sunset, chaps. Except one well know QC….

    FYI – the original photo was taken back in the days before launch skippers woke up the reality that the cya was a gaffer yacht racing group. So quickly changed the burgee. Proof attached that RD flies the correct cloth in the correct space 😉 Alan H

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  3. Wandering Ways came to Lake Rotoiti in 2013 from the Waitemata where she spent most of her life on the Clevedon River and at Te Kouma. Currently owned by Noel and Suzanne Ruebe, longtime local Okere Falls residents she has been moored at a jetty on Te Weta Bay at the western end of the lake and has participated in many Wooden Boat Parades. She was designed and built by Bailey in 1965, and is a double diagonal planked 35 footer.

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  4. Wandering Ways came to Lake Rotoiti in 2013 from the Waitemata where she spent most of her life on the Clevedon River and at Te Kouma. Currently owned by Noel and Suzanne Ruebe, longtime local Okere Falls residents she has been moored at a jetty on Te Weta Bay at the western end of the lake and has participated in many Wooden Boat Parades. She was designed and built by Bailey in 1965, and is a double diagonal planked 35 footer.

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