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CLASSIC WOODEN BOATING FLASHBACK – TUTUKAKA

Todays photo was sent in by John Dawson and is dated January 1976. Times have sure changed.

Can we ID the launch alongside the dock. I sprinkled some magic dust on the photo – see below, might help with the ID.

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