Classic Yacht On-Line Magazine Jan/Feb 2015
Latest edition of the on-line USA magazine ‘Classic Yacht’ . Remember in the USA yacht = boat so there is lots of motor-boat related stories. Enjoy 🙂
click link to view http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/ClassicYacht/cym-janfeb2015/2015012001/#0
2015 Mahurangi Regatta Weekend – 70+ Photo Parade
This is what makes the regatta racing so special – where else do you get sailing like this?
Yes, there were life jackets on-board for everyone
Saturday Night Prize Giving & Dance
Grinners Are Winners
Mahurangi / Warkworth c.1961
photos ex Ken Ricketts
Todays post show 2 photos taken c1961, most likely at Xmas & show a collection of launches tied up at the wharf at Warkworth. The really neat thing is hat most of these craft are still a float today & in as good, if not better condition.
It would be nice to see some of those varnished coaming again 😉
Several of these launches will be at todays Mahurangi Regatta & weather & numbers interested – maybe making the trip up the river to Warkworth for lunch.
Ken has attempted to ID the launches – see below.
PHOTO 1
Front row Gay Dawn, Ken can’t identify outer 2 boats.
Top left row, tiny bit of bow too small to indentify next to wharf next is
Cherokee & next is Menai. Ken can’t identify outer boat of that group
PHOTO 2
Bottom left Gay Dawn, Ken can’t identify the other 2 boats.
Next row to right is Faye at wharf, next to her is Royal Falcon & next is
Cherokee & then Menai. Ken can’t identify the outer boat.
Far row to right – boat at wharf is Southern Belle, may have been owned by Stan
Blundell, the outer boat next to her is Lady Karita.
Boat at anchor Reelemin II
Awanui – Sailing Sunday
photo ex Ken Ricketts
Today’s boat lives at Gulf Harbour & could be Awanui. If it is then its owned by Eric Price. Eric is 90+ years & uses the boat regularly. The impressive thing is by use I mean extended cruises for weeks at a time. My wife knows Eric & some of the tales from the cruises would make great reading.
Anyone able to confirm the vessels & also supply any details on her past – she has a Lidgard look to her.
18/01/2015 – Input from Garth Broadhead
On first glancing at the photo and without reading the text, it struck me like she looked like Eric’s boat which I was aboard several times as a teenager – so I’m guessing she is! Delighted to know Eric’s still alive and well!! Someone should ask him to post his tale of having his apendix removed underneath a coconut tree in Fiji – it’s a doozy!
If you are even remotely interested in classic wooden boats – Mahurangi is where you want to be this coming long weekend 23>26th Jan.
Details below.
Woodys In The Bay of Islands Xmas/NY 2014-15
photos ex Dean Wright
Dean Wright – professional photographer & owner of the classic 1927 Bob Brown built launch ‘Arethusa’ had his camera out over the break & snapped a few of our fleet at rest in the BOI’s. Greg, like most of us, has a bit of a crush on Wirihana 🙂
Can anyone name for me the tram-topper?
To view more of Deans work & see/read about Arethusa – click the link below
http://www.deanwright.co.nz/
Click this link to view my all time favourite classic boating photo. Rings all my bells.
http://www.deanwright.co.nz/prints/marine-photography-dean-wright/product/54-kopikopiko.html
The Rescue of Tiarri – Ken’s Big Road Trip – 4 Sale
photos ex Ken Ricketts
There have been numerous stories on ww around the demise – grounding, sinking, recovery, abandonment & discovery of Tiarri. The discovery via trademe of her on a farm in a very sorry state sparked an SOS shout out on ww for an angel to wave their wand & find a good bastard out there prepared to take the rebuild project on. Well it worked & Garth Broadhead stepped up to the mark – today’s post records the start of the journey. There will be more & you’ll see it here 🙂
26/01/2015 – A water blasting cleans her up & uncovers a few ‘blemishes’
UPDATE 03-09-2016
ww has had advice that is 4sale ‘as-is-where-is’ – all offers will be seriously considered.
Enquiries should be directed to the Marina Manager enquiries@mahurangimarinas.co.nz
11-05-2019 UPDATE – Sadly Tiarri’s final ‘voyage’ was as a fire brigade training drill and the black scorched earth is all that remains 🙂 (photo ex Russell Ward)
Lake Taupo Classic’s – Part 2
photos ex Jason Prew
More photos below from Jason’s Lake Taupo travels on the picinic boat Otira. Click photos to enlarge.
Fingers crossed Paul Drake drops in again & ID’s a few of them for us 😉
Lake Rotoiti Wooden Boat Parade 2015 Calendar
![calendar%20front%202015[3]](https://i0.wp.com/waitematawoodys.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/calendar20front2020153.jpg?w=580&h=423&ssl=1 "calendar%20front%202015[3]")
![calendar%20back%202015[1]](https://i0.wp.com/waitematawoodys.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/calendar20back2020151.jpg?w=580&h=431&ssl=1 "calendar%20back%202015[1]")
Now I suspect numbers might be getting tight, but if there is enough interest, I’m sure they will reprint.
The price is $10 for 1 or $7.50 each for 5 or more. Postage is $2.40 for up to 8 calendars, $5 for more than 8 or courier ($5.50 North Island $6.50 South Island – RD extra).
Pay via direct to the account. If you pay direct please use your surname as reference and let me know when you make the payment.
The bank account number is: 12 3155 0140546 00
However before doing anything – I suggest you email (address below) Rachel Jamieson & check on supplies 🙂
zea.rachel@gmail.com
ps I even make a cameo appearance in the month of June 🙂
RONOMOR
photo ex Baden Pascoe, details ex Geoff Brebner, Harold Kidd & Baden Pascoe
Geoff Brebner has been sniffing around for info on a launch by the name of Ronomor (row-no-more) which he had last seen a number of years back on the hard at Half Moon Bay. The small amount he has been able to glean was that she was built at Stanley Bay by D M Darroch & Sons probably in the 1920’s. The story he heard was she was built to save them the frequent trips to the city side in the yard rowboat, hence the name Ro no mor.
Now in consultation (that sounds very posh for an email) with Harold Kidd, Harold agrees that Ronomor was built by Darroch but originally as Albatross and renamed Ronomor after she was lengthened about 1919. She was used to commute to and from Omaha/Mahurangi rather than across the harbour and did at least two pleasure trips to the Bay of Plenty, probably why she finished up in Whitianga.
Harold advised that there were several Ronomors or variants of that name, which doesn’t help.
Now Baden Pascoe adds that his father fitted a Lees Marine 90 hp Trader & that she did a good 10 knots. More photos to more ex Baden.
Anyone else able to add to the story of her past / present?
