WHERE IS THE CLASSIC LAUNCH WAIRUAMA

Back in November 2014 (the very earlier days of the site) WW ran a brief story on the classic wooden launch -WAIRUAMA. Over the next 3 years the comments and photographic input just mushroomed. There was a lot of debate as to who designed / built WAIRUAMA, link here https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/11/29/wairuama/

Then in late 2017 we went into radio silence and nothing since.

Until yesterday when I was contacted by a gent who advised that he had an item engraved with the message – ” With best wishes from the skipper and crew of the Wairuama 26.5.43”. Given the date we could safely assume the ‘skipper and crew’ were her war time NAPS crew.

So woodys do we know where WAIRUAMA is today, would be nice if we could reunite the item with the boat. Ps Given the price of gold these days, have not disclosed what the item is – joke 🙂

STILL ROOM DOCKSIDE IF YOUR WANT TO JOIN IN ON THE CLASSIC WOODYS OVERNIGHT BBQ CRUISE TO CLEVEDON RSVP TO waitematawoodys@gmail.com