MARGIE
photo ex classicboatsnz
Photo shows Margie being launched at Pilot Bay, Tauranga. Thats all I know so any other input would be nice 🙂
Margie
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Category Archives: Launches
Maiebe
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MAIEBE
photo & details ex Harold Kidd
The ex-Mary M, ex-Regina, built by Lanes in December 1912 as a flushdecker which had a “bridgedeck”, tramtop and dodger put on in the latter part of her life. She went ashore and broke up in the violent storm of early February 1936 when owned by Bert Prosser.
Meander
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MEANDER
photo & details ex Harold Kidd
A classic Sam Ford bridge decker of the mid-30s, Meander, seen here about to be craned into the Waitemata on 31st August 1937. She was built by Sam Ford at his Ellerslie property for Syd Guest of Whangarei, 32’ x 9’6” x 3′ and powered by a Graymarine 6-91 de luxe.
She was a stock Ford 32 footer of his “streamlined class” and had been on display at the Auckland Winter Show.
She took part in NAPS out of the Bay of Islands and Whangaroa in 1942-4, skippered by Syd Guest with deputy skipper Murdoch McDonald and crewmen Dick Hutchings, Kelvin Lacy, Jack Cumming, Chris Rogers, Bert Young and Will McNaughton. She had patrol number Z33.
Meander spent most of the intervening years in the North but was bought by Aucklander David Vaasen in 2005.
Photo update (2x colour) from Mark McLaughlin (Mapuna) of Meander underway near Westhaven in 2007.
Ken Rickitts commented that she was an example of Sam Ford at his best, particularly the varnished tuck, very rare in those days, Ford only ever did 1 or 2 that Ken knows of. Fantastic to see her again after over 50 years, a beautful boat – Ken R
Harold Kidd Update
Ken is right about MEANDER, she’s a gem.
Sam Ford is sometimes sneered at for lack of build-quality and poor materials. In fact, you got what you were prepared to pay for and his top-quality boats were top-quality boats. Nobody, however, sneers at his designs which were “state of the art” by their contemporary international standards. Most have lasted, as-built, over the many years since their construction and are still stunning examples of motor-launch design.
I have been researching Sam intensely for some months and am continually impressed by the man.
CYA Launch Cruise to Riverhead Hotel
Maggie
Raft up – Maria,Jeunesse,AlleregryMonterey
Raindance,Rorqual,Lucille
A visitor from Milford Creek
St Ayles Skiff
St Ayles skiff
At anchor
Pirate, Endeavour
Raft up
Lucille, Roequal,Raindance
Pirate, Summer Wine
Maria
Silens
Jeunesse
Mahanui,Castaway
Rorqual
Monterey
Sierra
Endeavour
CYA Launch Cruise to Riverhead Hotel
Sunday 10 November saw 18 classic launches cruise to the historic Riverhead Hotel on the banks of the upper Waitemata Harbour. This bi-annual event is one of the most popular on the Classic Yacht Associations calendar & saw around 150 people making the trip (some by car) to enjoy a BBQ lunch in the hotels garden bar.
My were joined on-route by the just completed & launched St. Ayles skiff, built for CYA member Mike Mahoney (Tawera) at the NZ Traditional Boat Building School. Details here http://nzcoastalrowing.org
Maro
MARO
photos from Helen & Richard Andrew’s family collection (grand daughter & her husband of Henry Allen -Tiromoana) ex Ken Rickitts.
Ken is fairly certain this is Maro, his thinking is based on the fact that he saw Maro regularly in the mid to later 1940’s & given that the owner of Maro (Les Webber) was close friends of Henry & Alma Allen whose photo collection this photo came from. The NAPS number (329) should provide the answer.
Ken is uncertain who built her but suggests she is 34 – 36 ft long, circa 8 ft 6 inches beam, possibly built by either – Baileys, Dick Lang or even the Lanes (not Garth). Or perhaps none of those.
Les Webber, owner & founder of the Plummer Hat Company in Auckland, owned her in the mid to later 40s until 1950, & possibly for a period before that. He replaced her with the Amakura eventually, in 1950 -1955.
When Ken knew her she had a Graymarine 6 cyl approx 90h.p. petrol engine. She was used very regularly & had not been “fiddled with” as far as I could see, at that time.
Help with a positive ID & any details on her would be appreciated.
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Harold Kidd Update
It’s MARO all right, but certainly was “fiddled with” and Ken is “Wildly” astray.
1. She was built as the 33 footer THISTLE by M. Forsyth of Bayswater in late 1909, early 1910
2. Harold Wiles and Percy Howden bought her in the winter of 1922.
3. Wiles seems then to have taken over ownership.
4. Wiles re-engined her with a 40hp Stearns, for which he was NZ agent.
5. Wiles handed her to Colin Wild to rebuild in November 1925, replacing her “compromise stern” with a tuck stern and lengthening her by 3′ 6″ in the process.
6. After the rebuild Wiles renamed her LADY MARGARET.
7. When Wiles commissioned Wild to build LADY MARGARET II in 1928, he sold this launch, LADY MARGARET I, to Dr. C.J. Long.
8. When LADY MARGARET II was launched, Long changed her name to MARO, took out the high-powered Stearns, which went into MOLLIE (later ALCESTIS/RAIONA) and put in a Universal 4 cylinder.
9. She remained in Long’s ownership until just before WW2 when L R H Webber bought her and was her skipper with NAPS in 1942-3 as Z25.
and so on…………………
Marguerite
Marguerite
Possibly built by Collings & Bell c.1919/23. Hull is d/d kauri, 44′, sleeps 9, all the mod cons fitted & overall including the traditional interior not too messed around with, so could be returned to her finest without too much effort.
BUT BUT BUT – why do people list a boat for sale & do not include the boats name in the listing 😦
Can anyone put a name to her?
details here http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/motorboats/auction-659271279.htm
Harold Kidd Update
She’s MARGUERITE, built by Collings & Bell at St. Mary’s Bay for H.S. Harrison of Stanley Bay and launched in late January 1920. She originally had a 120-140 hp Van Blerck 6 cylinder, a top US-built engine of the time for which C&B were agents. The Van Blerck is not to be confused with the JVB as fitted originally to NGAIO although from the same designer, Joseph van Blerck. Harrison sold her to C.G. McIndoe of Remuera in October 1923. He renamed her her LADY UNA and she kept that name for many years. McIndoe passed her on to H L G McIndoe (son?) in 1945 when she was re-engined with a 142hp Chrysler. In 1950 the Chrysler was replaced with a 200hp Scripps.
Robin Elliott photographed her in Paremata in 2000, looking pretty good. She later came north, to Whitianga, it seems.
Lovely boat.
Unknown Launch 08/11/2013 (probably Antares)
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Unknown Launch 08/11/2013
Arcturus b
Arcturus a
Arcturus c
Alcyone
photo from Helen & Richard Andrew’s family collection (grand daughter & her husband of Henry Allen -Tiromoana) ex Ken Rickitts.
Given the chat on the previous post re McGeady boats I have posted this c.1950 photo that is ‘tagged’ as a McGeady launch, interested in your views as to if this is correct & the vessels name & anymore details.
Also interested in ID’ing the launch in the background.
17/03/2015 Update
Ken R is confident that the mystery has been solved , the launch is Antares – In the photo above & you will see the white peaked cap always worn by Cyril Parker every time he went to sea, the cap was evident in all pics, also the mast & placement thereof, is identical, although the lower half of the coamings had been painted by the time the photo in question was taken & therefore Ken tends to think in the later 1950s for this one.
Rangiora
RANGIORA
photos & details ex Harold Kidd
Rangiora was built in 1964 at McGeady’s yard in Summer Street, Ponsonby, to a McGeady design by McGeady with considerable input by her first owner Gordon Collie of Paton Road, Howick.
She was a breakthrough McGeady design with the substantial beam of 15ft on an overall length of 52ft. Her original engines were twin Fords.
Tony Vazey bought her in the 1980s and replaced the Fords with twin GM 4/51 supercharged diesels. He kept her at Westhaven, always absolutely immaculate as you can see from these images.
In late 2001 Tony sold her to Nick Tansey of Wellington. These days she can readily be seen from the shore on her marina berth in Wellington, a very beautiful hull with totally aesthetically pleasing topsides.
Unknown launch 06/11/13
Unknown Launch
photos from Helen & Richard Andrew’s family collection (grand daughter & her husband of Henry Allen -Tiromoana) ex Ken Rickitts.
There was some thought that the above may have been the Logan Ngaio but review by Harold Kidd & Ngaio’s owner, Ian Kohler, put paid to that.
Any one able to help with ID’ing this fine looking vessel. The photos were taken in the 1940’s.
Harold Kidd Update
Alan has posted me high res copies of the images. They do not conclusively show a chine forward, although they certainly don’t rule it out. The trouble with launch identification is that they change their profiles very often as they are “re-styled” or “modernised”. Many of these launches survive, but we in 2013 don’t recognize them in their earlier phases of development. So I’m working on a relatively complex id system in MS Access which has, as fields, for example, date of pic, bow type, stern type, where the break is, type of tophamper. .The idea is to enable one to see through the modernisations to the original configuration, although how one would cope with the changes to, say, MAVIS B from flushdecked steam launch to her current dieselised bridgedecker setup I’m blessed if I know.
This mystery boat is terribly like, say, ALOHA, and has that St Mary’s Bay 1920s look to her, Collings & Bell, Dick Lang, Leon Warne etc. If she is a chine boat then C&B is likely as Paul points out. Work in progress.
Kenya II (777)
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KENYA II (777)
photos from Helen & Richard Andrew’s family collection (grand daughter & her husband of Henry Allen -Tiromoana) ex Ken Rickitts. Build & war service details ex Harold Kidd
Kenya II was built for Len Heard by Lidgard Bros and delivered in early 1940 & was in NAPS service in Auckland during the war as Z29. She was also in Fiji between March & July 1942 doing patrol work. She kept her original Fairbanks Morse diesel until at least 1962 when Len Heard re-engined her with a Gardner.
It appears to be Heard in the cockpit of Kenya II. Len owned the confectionary manufacturer ‘Heards of Parnell’. Ken Ricketts remembers him from when he was 11 years old as given his business, Heard always had lots of lollies on his boat, making him very popular with all the young children in the bay.
Also of interest is the unknown older bridge decker in the background to “777” Kenya II. Anyone able to ID her?
B/W photo below taken by Ken Ricketts in Issy Bay, Labour weekend 1948. She was painted light blue at the time.
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