Pacific
Designed / built by Joe Slattery in 1917. One of the boats on my bucket list, can not visit Gulf Harbour marina without walking past her 🙂
Hopefully the current owner, Grant Burrell, great grandson of her 1st owner will drop in here with some more details.
Caprice c.1953, under way, photo taken from the launch Waitangi. Owned by Roger Guthrie’s family. Second photo is of Caprice hauled out at Silver Bay, Waiheke Island for antifouling. The little guy in the photo is Roger Guthrie.
JANE
Built by Collings & Bell 1913. Hull shaped similar to the old whale chasers so she cuts a fine track thru the water. Any more details would be appreciated.
Currently for sale on trademe
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/motorboats/auction-581375297.htm
Silens – designed by Harvey & Lang, 1912
Coquette, 1912 Logan designed . Coquette was used to take a mould off for the popular Logan 33 f/glass replicas e.g. Lucille, Lady Dorothy, Lynette.
The early shot ( with number 201) with dodger would have been taken c. 1926
Update from Robin Elliott
Coquette was launched as Doreen in 1912, built by Arch Logan for his brother Robert, who named her Doreen after their sister.By 1915 (??) she was named Haku & renamed Coquette c1923.That b&w photo above was taken c1942 or so and carries her wartime number.
Around 1945 Bill Couldrey (one of Arch Logan’s preferred boatbuilders) was asked to modernise the cabin and superstructure and this is what we see on her today. He got the curves and proportions just right. This revamped design of Bill Couldrey’s was also copied for the GRP Logan 33’s.
Margaret S was built as MARNE around 1918-9 by Collings & Bell for J. Goodwill who had owned Lizard before. She had a Fay & Bowen Reliable 40 marine engine for many years during her ownership by W J Parker who installed it in 1923. Guy Tattersfield owned her in 1932 but she appears to have had her name changed to Margaret S when bought by panelbeater Alex Stewart of Prospect Tce Mt Eden around 1938. The Johnson family bought her in 1967 and she still had the Fay & Bowen then. They must have been good engines. Coquette had one installed at the same time as Marne/Margaret S.
Ken Ricketts took the old photo in Schoolhouse Bay Kawau Island Christmas 1948 when owned by Alec Stewart
Recently she sank at her motoring in Bayswater & was resuscitated by her owner – new photo by Alan Houghton
FLORENCE
This ones a blast from the past, Aumoe the 1913 Tom Le Huquet designed launch rafted alongside Radio Hauraki’s pirate radio ship – ‘Tiri’. One has to wonder what she was delivering………………….
Romance II – designed & built by Bailey & Lowe 1919
Lapwing – designed by Bailey & Lowe c1915
Update April 2019 – Lapwing getting some TLC at West Harbour Marina.
02-05-2019 Update on the work below es John Wicks – Couple more photos of Lapwing, looking very spiffy and about ready to splash. Note the trail-boards are back in place, now with the scroll work done in gold leaf, as is the name board on her transom.
And on its way back to Bayswater Marina
13-01-2026 UPDATE Photo below ex TREVOR COPPOCK – a rare photo of her off the marina – looks like the next generation are using her – we like that ✔️
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