Maggie

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Maggie

Maggie – designed and built by Roy Parris in 1992,originally she had a large hatch in the foredeck and a doghouse aft-end. A very pretty looking workboat , and exceptionally well balanced hull , the completed boat sat on its keel in the shed rocking gently from side to side between 2 wedges for well over 1/2 hour until Roy Parris stopped it whereupon it sat and it stood completely unsupported on its keel only. After an early life transporting supplies to & from Kawau Island she was refurbished in 2004 & is now best described as a small clinker built day boat, being 18ft 6″ overall. Her stem and keels are heart totara with a hull built of rewa rewa ribs and kauri planks. Her comfortable cruising speed is 7 knots at 2100 rpm. Maggie is a good little sea boat, and is permanently berthed in the Viaduct Harbour Basin.

Cape Sounion

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Cape Sounion

Cape Sounion – designed by Howard Greenwood in 1976, with the brief to be no wider than a standard shipping container, as the boat was destined to be shipped to Europe for extended canal cruising. This she did & is now back in NZ cruising the Hauraki Gulf.

Neptune

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Neptune

Neptune – designed & built 1956 by Fred Lidgard at Kawau Island. Her owner tells us he uses her more as a motor launch than a yacht, so here she is :-). The interior is quite special as well, we will cover that in the future.

Lapwing

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Lapwing

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.

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And on its way back to Bayswater Marina

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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 ✔️

Raindance

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Raindance

Raindance in race mode, yeah right 🙂 during the running of the 2010 Rudder Cup , after stripping anything that was not bolted down off, draining the water tank, just enough fuel on board etc I only gained 0.25knts average speed.