CLASSIC MYSTERY WOODEN LAUNCH – + Boat Boot Sale RSVP – SURF
Today classic wooden launch photo is from Robyn Kellian via Tobias Forsyth so we can safely assume the location is the Leigh region. No names to help us but thats a very distinctive side profile so I’m sure we will get a positive ID from the readers.
In the photo she looks quite big (40’) until you factor in the child on the fore deck and the gent in the cockpit – so maybe 32-34’.
10-08-2026 INPUT ex HAROLD KIDD – SURF was built in late 1916 by W. R. Dawson who owned her until 1927 . Fred Woolley of Auckland bought her in 1930. She was 32′ loa and was fitted originally with a 25hp Wisconsin which probably developed about 80bhp. She may have spent a season gamefishing out of Whangaroa in 1927 run by Kent.
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SURF was built in late 1916 by W. R. Dawson who owned her until 1927 . Fred Woolley of Auckland bought her in 1930. She was 32′ loa and was fitted originally with a 25hp Wisconsin which probably developed about 80bhp. She may have spent a season gamefishing out of Whangaroa in 1927 run by Kent.
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THE SURF Around 30ft You will see the hull and portholes are the same as a previous WW Picture. The last time i saw her was sitting on a mooring off the Naval Base Devonport in late 70s
You could be right Paul. Lost a port hole and ‘new’ cabin, but the bones are there. Previous WW Surf story here https://waitematawoodys.com/2019/01/05/surf/
Maybe Jason Prew can comment……….. Alan H
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