
Little Jim & Raindance in Patio Bay, post race, prior to the CYA Christmas Party

Little Jim & Raindance in Patio Bay, post race, prior to the CYA Christmas Party

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………………….

You have to love the depth charges (??) on the stern & the (now days) very un-PC cartoon on them 🙂 🙂
All I know is the location is Matakana. A fellow waitematawoody advised that the people aboard could possibly by the Ravenhall family of Victoria Ave Remuera . photo c1939

Boats like Falcon do not appear for sale often, this one has the plus of being owned by James Mobberley, Auckland’s foremost classic launch engineer (Moon Engines) for the last 12 years.
Link below
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/motorboats/auction-579016372.htm

Do not be fooled by the ‘old’ effects on the photo, I ‘dated’ it. A few CYA launches here that we do not see nowadays 😦

Can you ID the boats – think Menai, Apache, Valsan

Seafever (Bob Salthouse 1959) & Awarua (designed by Roy Lidgard 1946) at anchor in Shark Bay, Ponui Island, Easter 2013

Monterey in Man o War Bay – Easter 2013

Rorqual in Man o War Bay – Easter 2013