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.
Mahurangi Weekend 2015
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Category Archives: Spirit of Tradition
The Rescue of Tiarri – Ken’s Big Road Trip – 4 SALE > RIP
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)
13-05-2019 Input and photos* / video* from Ken Ricketts – Sadly in the end no one stepped forward to save Tiarri so the hard stand owners gifted her to the Warkworth Volunteer Fire Service for use as a fire fighting exercise.
I would just like to say a huge thank you to you Alan and all the other woodys, who have written of her, inspected her, & tried to help to save her, in the various ways we all have, & put her back together, albeit in vain in the end.
We all tried, & we could do no more than that, but to you Alan, most of all, if you had not published her plight, we would never even have been able to try. Thank you very much, I will be forever grateful. Ken R
(*Images & video, courtesy of the Warkworth Volunteer Fire Service)
Own a Seabird 3.2m Dinghy?
Own a Seabird 3.2m Dinghy & Want Some Pocket Money?
WW have been approached on behalf of a film company that need one of the above for a film shot on Monday (venue = Auckland). They will be a rental fee. If you own one or know someone that does – email me direct at waitematawoodys@gmail.com
17/01/2015 – Building Seabirds at Whangateau Traditional Boatyard (photo ex Pam Cundy)
Lake Taupo Classic’s – Part 2
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 😉
Arcturus – Sailing Sunday
ARCTURUS
I snapped the above photos of the yacht Arcturus while anchored in Little Oneroa over the xmas / ny period. She is a 1930 John G. Alden (USA) design. She would have to be one of the prettiest vessels in the CYA.
Just need one of the ww yachting followers to chip in with more details on her.
Which they have (thx Rod Marler) http://www.classicboatcharter.com/history.htm
Kawe
KAWE
Spotted her at Oneroa last week. Kawe is a permeant Waiheke Island resident, splitting her time between Matiatia & Oneroa where the owner has a house. She featured a while ago in the magazine NZ Life & Leisure & from memory is a big day-boat with the ability to convert the stern area into a double berth.
She is a modern classic but ticks a lot of my boxes.
Anyone able to supply more details?
Summertime – Rosie Lees
Rosie Lees & Summertime
Where it all started
Final Push / Prep
Launch Day
SUMMERTIME
photos ex Lees Family
How today being Christmas Eve I really wanted a nice, feel good post today – when the details & photos of this one started to hit my email inbox, it went straight to a file tagged 24/12/14 🙂
If you follow ww you will know that Greg Lees is a very talented boat builder & runs one of the best classic friendly boat yards in NZ, what most of you would not have known is that Rosie his 20 year old daughter is also very talented. Todays post is proof of just how talented.
In October 2013 Rosie started building a Pelin Ventura, named ‘Summertime’ – now the build timeline got a little stretched out with things like work (Blenheim) getting in the way. However a 6 week period between Sept & Nov 2014 provided the ideal window to finish ‘Summertime’ off & she was splashed in early December 2014. You can see from the above photos that the boat looked beautiful and I’m told went better than expected i.e. 45mph with ease & Rosie was thrilled. Now this lady does not muck around, Saturday night Summertime was wrapped in shrink wrap and Sunday morning Greg and co. towed it down to Wellington in time for the ferry to Blenheim. Seems Rosie has a Regatta to attend. By the standard of the artistry, both the boat & Rosie the builder, should scoop a few awards.
Now this is quite an achievement for a 20 year old, seems to me that the Lees gene pool is mighty strong 🙂
05/03/2015 – Rosie & Summertime In the news (Marlborough Express)
CYA Patio Bay Weekend 2014
CYA Patio Bay Weekend 2014
This weekend is the best event on the CYA calendar, ticks all the boxes – enjoy the photos, I took hundreds – below is a slice of woody nirvana. Enjoy 🙂
As always – click on the photos to enlarge 😉
CYA Launches
Some Sailing
Party Time
Prize Giving
Now hows this for a mark foy finish after 17.8nm – take a bow Steve Cranch – the King of handicapping 🙂
Thelma by a bow sprit
Chad T When He Discovered It Wasn’t Fancy Dress This Year 🙂
I knew it was going to be a good day when we had a visit from these beauties
Got A Question, Looking For A Boat, Found Something Of Interest?
Got A Question, Looking For A Boat, Found Something Of Interest?
ww gets lots of correspondence that start off like this :
” I used to own _ _ _ _ _ in the the 1960’s, do you know where she is now”
” I wonder if you could help me trace my granddads boat”
So I have set up a Lost & Found post – if your looking for a boat just enter brief details in the comment section below & click the ‘post comment’ button. You click on this icon, top right (up turns blue when you scroll over it), to go straight to comments – the number indicates the number of comments.
Over on the right hand side of the site is a Lost & Found panel – if you click on that it will take you to this post.
You can also use the search box to see if there have been any info posted – just type the boat name into the box & hit enter.
GIVEN ITS THE COMMENTS SECTION – KEEP IT SHORT i.e. NO STORY TELLING
I’ll trial it for a while & see how it goes. Alan H
CYA NZ Classic Register 2014/15 Edition
CYA NZ Classic Register 2014/15 Edition
At long last its out. Chris Miller & myself craft this book every season. Each year we say “never again” 🙂
Click the link below to view 200+ classic boats – note the link takes you to the CYA website so if you want to return to the ww site you will have to re-log in. Also the on-line addition does not show owners contact details for obvious reasons 😉
http://classicyacht.org.nz/demosite/wp-content/uploads/Classicreg2014/mobile/index.html
