LADY EILEEN
Looking to get into the classic wooden boating scene ? Lady Eileen is now offered for sale & offers outstanding value for money for a vessel of her size ( L=48.9′ / B=13.4′ / D=3.9′ / 18 tons) & fit-out. refer trademe listing link below for full details.
A fine example of a Shipbuilders / SupaCraft triple skinned kauri launch. Lady Eileen was launched in 1947 & is a sister ship to Rakanoa, Mahara & Rosemary II.
Given her size & fit-out ‘live-aboard’ is an option.
CADEAU – Logan 33
Now its not often that you will see a fibre glass boat on WW (or a 4 sale listing) but this one is just such an outstanding example of the Logan 33 replicas & for sale at the best price I have seen in a long time, I had to post her. Plus there is enough kauri in her interior to almost appease a purest like myself 🙂
If you are looking for a low maintenance classic retro style boat, at $115,000, ono, this is a bargain.
Details:
Construction: 2004, Fibre glass, Kauri interior,. Length: 10.9 metres ( 35,7 feet) Year:build, 2004 Engine:, 40 HP Lomdardini.
Bait tank, depth sounder,fishfinder,GPS, Satnav, Power steering,Radio,CD player, rod holders,VHF radio, extension rear cover.
Engine hours 630, recent service, full life service history, immaculate condition.
Beam: 2.50metres (8ft 2in) Draft: 0.5 metres(20in) Fuel capacity: 350 litres Water capacity: 350 litres.
This is a beautiful example in absolutely new condition throughout ready for the season, just been antifouled and prop speed, complete electrical and mechanical check throughout.
Features a crafted kauri trim interior with T&G deck heads, 4 berth, extended hull under platform ( water tight) and MK3 stabilizers, Ray marine electronics with A/pilot, fridge, 4b+oven, shower, holding tank, solar panel, inflatable, two new batteries, all windows resealed, new carpet, steadying sail, new mast spreader and rigging lines, 50metres of anchor chain,. In absolutely spotless condition.
Boat can be viewed at Half Moon bay marina on the hard stand, Phone 09-8366461 ( Home) 09-634 7697 ext 908 ( work ) mob 021 324 476
ALWYN
Currently for sale on trademe. Listed as a 1927 Logan (however Harold Kidd believes she was launched in April 1910). Fully reconditioned BMC Diesel, 4 berth. Two Burner gas cooker & BBQ. Chemical toilet. Fish Finder GPS .VHF Radio. Gas Detector 120 litres diesel .120 litres water..Steady sail. Solar charging system.15k spent 4 yrs ago having cabin & decks covered in marine ply & fibre glassed by professional boat builder.
Asking $35,000, – an affordable entry into classic boating.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=661146172
GREAT NEWS ON THIS LOGAN FROM HAROLD – 24/11/13, read the comments section for details on the uncovering of this Logan.
Hey, this has been an extremely valuable exercise in that a “new” Logan launch has been found. If this launch IS ALWYN, then she WAS built by Arch Logan after the Logan Bros yard closed down. I was always aware that there was a launch under construction or at least ordered at the time they closed down.
So I had a good trawl today on Papers Past using a variety of key words and eventually hit the jackpot. In the NZ Herald of 10th February 1912 there is an entry saying that J. Horton Swales (who I knew had built all his own many yachts and launches until then) had had a handsome new 32ft x 7ft10in x 2ft launch built by Mr. Arch Logan of Stanley Bay. SO, Arch built THREE launches after the closure, ALWYN, DOREEN/HAKU/COQUETTE and NGAIO.
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa and I’m delighted to have erred because we now have a new Logan. I wish I had known that when Robin and I wrote the Logan book. Mind you, I’ve found a lot more Logan boats since the book went to press, but none as significant as this one, I think.
Therefore the owner does have an ARCH LOGAN launch built in late 1911 (not 1927, but that’s relatively unimportant in the scheme of things).
That must add a heap to its intrinsic value!
CAPRICE (another one, there are a few out there)
34ft Classic Launch – Kauri-plank, built by Lanes Totara North. 60-70 years old. For sale on trademe asking $30,000 – not a bad price to a classic that certainly looks like she is a Lane.
Has been in the family 35yrs, genuine reason for selling, well maintained, an oldie but a goodie. Sleeps 4, 60Hp Fordson Diesel, colour sounder, chart plotter, AM/FM radio, VHF radio, 12v fridge, dual battery system, portaloo toilet, life jackets, 2 burner gas cooker, plus lots more extras.
Type Caprice in the WW search box & to see more photos
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=661455150
Harold Kidd Update
For a start, she wouldn’t have been built at Totara North. All T.M. Lane & Sons’ launch production was relocated at King’s Drive, Mechanics Bay, Auckland in 1905, even for launches used at the Totara North mill like MAPU. I would lay bets that she was built in 1916 by the Grandison brothers as a clone of the Lanes launch REGINA.
Updated photo 28/01/2014 sent by Roger Guthrie who saw her & meet the owner in Mongonui.
Wai Lani
All I can tell you is she is currently listed on trademe & if you believe trademe she is a 30′ 1922 Lane. As type this I can hear HDK saying “aren’t they all” 🙂
Can anyone confirm & or supply more details?
Harold Kidd Update
Aren’t they all?
But, seriously, WAI LANI was built for James Thomas Dart Lloyd, a Herne Bay builder and architect in 1916. The newspapers were fairly quiet on trivia like launches being built in 1916 (and it was possibly considered vaguely unpatriotic anyway). He kept her for an enormous period, finally selling her in the early 1960s. He died in 1965.
I can find no certain reference to her builder (without a time machine). However a subsequent owner told me she was built by Dick Lang in St Mary’s Bay which figures because Lloyd lived in Ring Terrace only metres from Lang’s shed. However, she did have a Scripps 2 cylinder engine, for which Lanes were the agents, until 1930, when it was replaced with a 25hp Canadian-built St. Lawrence which engines were briefly popular at the time because of the lower duty attracted by “Empire Preference” tariffs, just as most of our Ford V8s were built in Toronto. So maybe she was Lanes. Lanes/Laing/Lang often get mixed up in these mythological whakapapa for launches.
There are some 1930s race entries in the name of Sam Leyland, the timber mogul. It’s clear that Leyland and Lloyd were buddies and neighbours and that Leyland must have been between launches (he changed them like the wind, often renaming them, bless his cotton socks)
So I can’t convincingly shoot down the “Lanes” but I can shoot down the “1922”.
17-04-2016 photos ex Fraser Chapman via Ken R
earlier photo ex Dave Jackson
1. Update from Ken Ricketts – The Leitner was owned by the late Trevor Davis who’s father Sir Earnest Davis bought her for him, in the later 1920s & sold her when he bought the Glenifer for his son, in 1932. — Ken’s father Ralph Ricketts sailed on her on most trips.
2. Update from Adrienne – Built 1913 by Harvey & Lang with a Buffalo engine supplied by David Reid.
Research in the NZ Past Papers, reveals that she regularily raced around the Auckland Harbour (Ak Anniversary Regatta) from around 1913 thru to early 1930’s and the skipper was a certain Colonel White. She raced as a Bona Fide Cruiser in the 8 to 10 knots division and on one occasion finished a 10 nautical mile course in 3hours 41 minutes and 46 seconds.
3. Harold Kidd Update
The Buffalo didn’t last in her long. It was replaced by a Mason & Porter-built 5″ x 7″ 4 cylinder 50hp engine in January 1914. F Restall and H L Rees owned her from 1926 to 1937. She spent a while at Paremata before she came back to Auckland and was owned by Dr. P A Restall for several years from 1959.
4. Update & c1947 photo from Robin Elliott
Leitner is currently owned by Roger Clark and partner and cruises out of the Whangarei Cruising Club. At some time she was ‘converted ‘ to a sort of bridge decker-type. The hull and trail boards are still original and some of the windows were used in the conversion.
Photo added 15-10-2015. At anchor at Fanal Island (Mokohinau Group). Photo ex Mac Taylor Collection
06-04-2016 photo below ex Hylton Edmonds of Leitner at Kissing Point, Whangarei.
09-04-2016 Update & photos below from owner via Ken R
Leitner is presently owned by Roger Clark of Whangarei & is moored at Kissing Point. Roger purchased her approx. 5 years ago from Half Moon Bay, Howick. She has a Perkins 6-354 which is an identical replacement fitted about 3 years ago, of the engine she had when Roger purchased her.
Bill’s Boat – this story needs a happy ending
Over fifty years ago I regularly helped a friend in Gisborne who was building a Tahiti ketch.
He was a most fastidious person and stories associated with his obtaining a
kauri tree in Coromandel, shipping the trunk to Gisborne where he milled it
into ten metre long planks, and then going about construction are legendary.
When it was fully planked, bulkheaded, decks and cabin tops fitted, along
with lead keel, Bill had to vacate the premises he was working in. He bought
an industrial property, built a workshop and accommodation on it, and
shifted the boat there as well.
At that stage Bill had other distractions and covered the boat hull under a
corrugated iron roof at the back of the property, and never did any
more work on it.
He recently passed away at a ripe old age and his Executors have asked me to
assist with its disposal in view of my knowledge of its history and
background.
I have recently inspected the boat closely and can confirm it is in the same
perfect condition it was in when I helped Bill move it fifty years ago
(albeit suffering from a thick layer of dust and cobwebs which have accumulated
over that time)
It was primed with a coat of red lead primer, inside and out , prior to
moving. The boat was well caulked and there appears to have been absolutely
no movement in any of the planks since, and I suspect if dropped in the
water today, the hull would barely leak a drop.
In its current storage situation it is impossible to photograph it properly
but I have done what I can to illustrate aspects of its construction. The photo on the trailer was taken during its removal about fifty years ago.
Many of these boats were built worldwide, and Googling “Tahiti ketch”
accesses a huge amount of information on them. They are not every
yachtsman’s cup of tea, but for someone with a taste for classic
yachts, and the ability to complete the fit out, acquiring this boat could be
a dream come true.
Ian Miller
09 4250952
SIERRA
words & photos from Dennis Christopher
‘Sierra’ is a general purpose workboat, designed and built by Joseph Fell of Kohukohu (Hokianga Harbour) & launched 3 May 1917. She is planked with two skins of Kauri over steam bent frames. Powered by a 120hp Ford Lees with a 2:1 twin disc gearbox. L – 42’6”, B – 11’2”, D – 3’6”.
Like most workboats, she has a very interesting history. She was built for Hokianga traders A. S. Andrews & Sons who had six stores dotted around the harbor. She carried passengers, general freight and was the official mail boat. Later on in her life she worked on the Auckland Harbour doing light towing duties and transporting men to and from the Bridge construction project. She also did general work and towing duties on the Manukau at the Glenbrook Steel Mill gas pilings.
“Sierra’s” days of hard work are over and she is now owned and cared for by Dennis Christopher of Panmure. “Sierra” is a regular competitor in the annual Tug boat race and parade on Auckland Anniversary Day and she won the Parry Trophy for the best presented retired vessel in 2009. A fitting tribute of how a piece of maritime history can be preserved and enjoyed.
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TAREPO story & photos ex Simon Manning Above are 3 old launching photos of Tarepo (might have been Tarepa originally – there was some sort of issue with the signwriting) which was built near Motueka around 1933. Looks very racey … Continue reading
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