STOLEN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC MOTOR-SAILER WITH A KIWI TIE-UP
WW was sent a heads up by John Dawson with a YouTube link to the video above. John stumbled across the video while trolling YouTube, when I checked it out, how could I not with a title that reads ‘A Stolen Sailboat, a Kidnapping and a Stabbing – The Mid Pacific Story’, I see it also appeared on the Australian blog – Southern Wooden Boat Sailing which I’m a big fan of, but I missed this story. It is a cracker story about a theft of a 1960’s classic wooden motor-sailer, from Morten Bay, Australia and the plan was to sail to New Zealand and sell her. Things didn’t so as planed – click the youtube link and enjoy.
You might like to check out the SWS blog – https://www.southernwoodenboatsailing.com/
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Thanks for that Alan, have been racking the memory bank for this story for a while, I well recall going down to the wharf (approx where the Spirit berths now) to view the hastily and obviously repainted “Tiki 3”
on a Sunday afternoon , she was quite the tourist attraction and big in the news for a while, with most concerned for the fate of the little boy who was dragged along on the ill fated scheme.
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