A GLIMPSE OF LAKE TAUPŌ’S CLASSIC WOODEN BOATING PAST
Todays classic woody photo popped up on a fb page named ‘You Know Your’e From Taupo When’, the poster was Mark Gregory and he commented that the photo was dated c.1964.
Taupo certainly was a wooden boating hub back then. Hopefully Paul Drake can ID a few for us.
(Apologies if the photo has appeared before on WW)
Call For Help Re Arch Logan Yacht – TARA
Over the weekendWW was contacted by Gregory Schultz re help with TARA, I’ll let him tell the story –
“I have recenty volunteered to ‘tidy up’ Tara, which has been on display at the Matakohe Kauri Museum where it has sat for many years, albeit as a very sad exhibit. I have shuddered everytime i have seen it and decided to become an approved musuem volunteer to officially get Tara looking like it should. Reputed to be the last boat Arch Logan built in 1938 its historic value is signicant. I have absolutely no intention of any restoration work as its present patina is how I think Tara should stay….bare paint in places…sails possibly original….even an unused Sails and Covers cotton spinnaker in it bag. What i intend doing is setting it up properly to suit its era. The sails will be set properly and all the sheets and haliyards replaced with the rope type used back then.
So with this in mind do any WW readers know of any old cotton rope around 1/2 inch dia or slightly under and preferably well used that someone might like to contibute to the cause. Also any history on this boat that can be kept on record at the musuem would be great. I cant find mention of it in Robin & Harolds book ‘The Logans’ or anywhere else.”Contact Gregory at. itzgreg@yahoo.com
STILL THINKING ABOUT DOING THE WOODYS CLEVEDON BBQ CRUISE THIS WEEKEND – RSVP waitematawoodys@gmail.com
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My brothers and I saw this wonderful photo for the first time ever a few days ago, and have had a ‘name the boat’ competition won by brother Nigel, who named 13. Others of us could only get to 10 or 11. Starting from the bottom second from left – KOTAHI (Bailey and Tyler 1912) Last seen at Auckland Zoo where she was an exhibit from 2013 until 2022. MARY – last seen on the Whanganui River. RAINBOW – last seen at Lake Rotoiti. REDWING – last glimpsed in a yard adjacent to the road leading south from Christchurch. Boats moored in the river, front row – from left to right – WAIRINGI (we kids called her THE FAT BOAT before we knew her name). KOTARE (steel, and still resident in The Boat Harbour). ARCADIA (Slattery about 1910) – also still in The Boat Harbour. Next is an un named boat, home built, which we called THIRTY FOOTER. And then DAUNTLESS, last seen at Milford Creek . Second row from left is NGARO ex APACHE (Lidguard). Behind her, almost invisible, is EL ALAMEIN now RANUI (Supreme Craft 1945) now on the Hokianga Harbour (since 2018). In the centre of the picture, between and behind KOTARE and ARCADIA, is VACUNA (Owen Woolley 1958, and well covered on ww for all the wrong reasons). Finally, in the distance and to the left. is FLYING SKUD (Lidguard – Kawau Island – 1953. Said to be wrecked in 1985 at Auckland). And the boys? Bill and Paul Bramley.
As an aside -The Taupo Boat Harbour or The Taupo Marina? I insist on calling it The Taupo Boat Harbour, but much (BUT NOT ALL) of the current signage calls it The Marina. The word is not even in my Oxford Illustrated Dictionary. There, I’ve had my rant.
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