Mystery Launch & A Few Yachts
I’m hoping that I have not published this photo before, its from the Mac Taylor collection. Interested in ID’ing the launch.
Sorry for a rather lame post today but I’m laid low with the man flu, feeling very average, in fact didn’t even watch the All Blacks test last night.
Mystery Launch – LIANDALLAH
The photo above was emailed to me by Brian Bead, along with several black & white yachting photos, all of which were ID’ed except the above photo. Its a mystery to Brian & to me – any woodys able to put a name to the launch. That rig / sail appears to be doing the business 🙂
14-10-2024 INPUT ex CHRIS MCMULLEN – Its LIANDALLAH details here https://waitematawoodys.com/2020/06/30/llandallah/
LIDGARD LAUNCH – Tuarangi > Silver Fin
We are told (trademe) the above boat was launched in approximately 1950. Her specs are 42’ x 12’1” beam with a 2’11”draft. She is powered by twin 110hp Hino’s. She is well set up for recreational diving with a compressor in the cockpit bilge for dive bottle refilling & customized multi dive bottle storage in the cockpit. As with most broker listings they have omitted to include the vessel’s name…… so I omit to include theirs 🙂
Any one able to put a name to the launch & provide more details on her?
Lots of details in the comments section + some history at the link below. A little sad that she has ended up looking like the above 😦
PILOT
Now while the vessel in todays story is a woody, the location is certainly not the Waitemata 🙂
The motorboat in the above photo is another from the Auckland Museum, Tudor Collins collection & was emailed to me by Ken Ricketts.
Are any of the woodys able to ID the location, date etc & possibly ID the vessel? Coconut palms in the background, islanders* helping with the loading – could be Suva, Nukualofa, Avatiu, Apia.
* not sure that islanders is a PC word, maybe I should have used ‘PI’ (Pacific Islander)
Yesterdays Survey
ww ran a survey yesterday around what classic wooden boat activities would appeal to you. Many thanks to everyone that completed the survey- BUT it’s not too late to do the survey, only takes a minute, so go on, just do it. Its anonymous 😉
Scroll down to find it.
Many thanks. Alan
4 Classic Yachts – Sailing Sunday
How many of the above can we ID ? they are all still afloat. Photo is from the Mac Taylor collection.
REMEMBER – MAX CARTER MEMORIAL TODAY @ RNZYS 2.00PM
And if you need some motivation to get the sandpaper & varnish out – click the link below & check out this line up of 33 beautiful classic yachts at Les Voiles de St Tropez. My eldest daughter (23) is currently in St Tropez, leaving on Tuesday for Sardinia on a 260’+ monster super ‘yacht’. Oh to be young & carefree again 🙂
RANGINUI
Today’s launch photo is from the Auckland Museum’s Tudor Collins collection. The photo quality is not the best, I suspect the plate was damaged at sometime in the past. The ww brains trust have come up with a big fat zero in terms of ID’ing the boat, so help from the woodys would be appreciated.
In terms of the location – given its a Tudor Collins image it’s more than likely to be the Bay of Islands or even further north e.g. Whangaroa? Input here too please 🙂
She was not a mystery for long 🙂 view details & photos on Harold Kidd’s 27 Sept 2013 ww story on Ranginui at the link below.
Mystery Boats & Location – Win a ww t-shirt
Today’s post could be interesting, the first woody that can ID any of the boats & the location will win a ww t-shirt. Rules are simple – first correct answer in the ww Comments section wins. If by 6.00pm no one has answered correctly, we will count backwards e.g. first woody with one of the two answers wins, if no one gets that, then the best (in my eyes) answer wins.
Only one other condition – the prize has to be either a size XL or 2XL shirt, that is all I have left until the next print run – p.s. they are smallish sizing.
Would have to question the effectiveness of those bilge stabilizers – a little like a pimple on a pumpkin 🙂
AND WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION – A SPECIAL REQUEST FOR HELP
Hi All
I am the project manager for Windhaven the Col Wilde ketch undergoing refit at Yachting Developments. Trying to find some original photos so we can look at restoring to as near as possible to her former glory. promise to be on the harbour this summer.
Any information would be greatly appreciated. pls send to garyatsea@gmail.com
Thx
Capt Gary
Alan H comment – a wee tip – if you keep spelling Wild with an E, you won’t get much help from HDK 😉
Below are a couple of photos that I assume you have already seen?
Can any woodys help Gary out with more info / photos?
29-07-2016 – Photo below ex Mike Drummond from the John Salthouse collection showing Windhaven being ‘removed’ from Colin Wild’s Stanley Point yard. The view is looking north over the Bayswater Peninsular.
Mystery Launch 13-07-2016
Today’s post is a going to test the talents of you woodys. Baden Pascoe sent me the above photos of a launch that is ‘parked’ outside Horopito Motors (central North Island). Baden commented that he was told by a Barbara Cole that it last floated at Whakatane, given its condition – that would have been a while ago 🙂
Barbara thinks the vessel may have been called ‘Gay Lee’.
So woodys what are the collective thoughts on her.
Update from Andrew Pollard – I have a poor quality photo of this boat, i found it online sometime ago. See below.
I have it under the name Gay Lee also.
Mystery Flush-Decker
The flush decker in the above photos appears to be flying a ‘Patrol’ flag so could be in some official capacity e.g. race control or maybe there is someone important arriving in the flying boat ?
Very happy to see what I think is a Auckland Motor Yacht Club burgee flying from the mast.
The photo is another from a collection of photographs by the marine photographer Tudor Collins.
So woodys – any cues ?
ENA MAE
We are overdue for a genuine mystery boat story – so woodys can anyone ID the above flush-decker? The photo is from a collection of photographs by the marine photographer Tudor Collins. Location? Bay of Islands / Whangaroa ?
The crew must have had a lot of faith in their engine to anchor that close in – fishing ? or something else going on?
There is an awful lot of string holding that mast up, must have snared a few birds 🙂
Make sure you check out the comments section today – some good updates on previous stories.
07-08-2016 – another photo added below from the Auckland Museum’s Tudor Collins collection, this one emailed to me by Ken Ricketts.
04-10-2016 HAROLD KIDD UPDATE
Mystery solved. The launch is ENA MAE owned by Cyril Sharp c1949. That’s not a huge amount of help because I have no record of her and it’s probably a re-name. Any clues out there? The Bay people must know something about her?
05-10-2016 Harold Kidd Input
Lew Redwood of Whangarei, who has a quite amazing collection of postcards and images from Northland, sent me the pic of ENA MAE below. It seems to be in the same Tudor Collins series. Lew is working on the provenance of ENA MAE now.
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