CLASSIC LAUNCHES AT GREAT BARRIER ISLAND
Todays woody photo comes to us from Gt Barrier Island fb via Ian McDonald. Ian commented that the photo was captioned ‘ Nagle Cove, Great Barrier, 1960’s’.
Obviously the uber cool game boat LADY DOREEN is front and centre, can we ID the launch behind her, very distinctive windows / ports configuration.
The photo looks slightly familiar but I can not find it on WW, the presence of the ‘NZ Tourist Air Travel’ flying boat is probably playing games with my memory.
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Lady Doreen, Rongotai and Cara Mia in Otehei Bay Bay of Islands.
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That’s it Les — Best — KEN R
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That boat looks very much like Rongatai—–Les Waldron
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Exactly what I was thinking Dean, the Grumman and those launches with that background.
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Have gone blank om the name of the second boat in the top image, but she used to belong to a friend of mine, Ken Taylor-Reid in the 1970s.
The passage of time & old age are a bugger. — Very frustrating when one knows but goes blank on a name one knows well. & can’t recall. Am confident it is or was then, a Maori name. — Perhaps RONGOMAI or similar — KEN R
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Otehei Bay I think
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