




LADY KARITA – A Rolling Restoration
Lady K has been on the receiving end of what we call a rolling restoration for the last year+. Now based in the upper South Island, her owner Murray Shaw is very close to finishing a stunning re-fit. The photos above are from the camera’s of both Murray & mutal friend, John Burland & give us a peek at the standard of the work.
The last photos show Lady K relocated last week to the western entrance of Mapua Harbour.
You can read / view more on LadyK at the WW link below-

https://www.facebook.com/markety.mark.92/videos/377063966386661/


My Girl


Waitangi



Rorqual

Lady Crossley
2018 Rudder Cup – Motor Boat Race – 60 + Classic Wooden Boat Photos

CYA Chairman James Mortimer + Brett Evans – Sterling – Winner 2018 Rudder Cup

Sterling Skipper & Winning Crew

CYA Chairman James Mortimer + David Cooke – Trinidad – Winner Classic Division

CYA Chairman James Mortimer + Iain Forsyth – Meola – Spot prize winner

Peter Boardman Skipper – Lady Margaret (D. Lang) Spot prize winner

Ferro Skipper – Dick Coughlan – Spot prize winner

Ronaki Skipper – Daniel Thomas – Spot prize winner

Korara Skipper – Anatole Perry – Spot prize winner




Back in July 2017 I ran a story on a ‘barn find’ 1928 woody that Lake Rotoiti boat builder Alan Craig at Craig Marine, was about to start work on.


https://waitematawoodys.com/2018/05/13/roxane-a-105th-birthday-party/
Keith started boating (admittedly in a tin canoe bashed out of old corrugated roofing) circa 1920, graduating to a P class, and later Zeddie, sailed off Takapuna beach at the foot of Hauraki Road where his family lived.
I understand he was a foundation pupil of Takapuna Grammar School…albeit reluctantly….his sister says he was known to step through one door of the old steam tram, but dismount the other side to spend the day more productively at the beach! His first job was with John Burns, marine section.
He was a keen member of the RNZN volunteer reserve enjoying voyages on the cruisers HMS Dunedin & Diomede, based in NZ. He & mates often sailed the well known ketch “Seaward” on behalf of an absentee owner.
Together with his friend Dick Wellington, they purchased the Tercel yacht “Roxane” (ref. WW.) & sailed her across to Sydney, via Norfolk & Lord Howe Islands, and landfall at Newcastle At this time the Roxane at 26 foot overall was the smallest craft to complete the crossing…all this in the winter of 1937.
On his first night ashore at Sydney he met,…”a very attractive red head, Betty”. The result, he later married her, Roxane was sold, and Keith spent the next 81 years “in” Australia, but remaining, emphatically, a “Kiwi”! For many years he worked among the Sydney yachting scene, mainly as a rigger.
In 1987, on his 74th birthday his family arranged a surprise visit to Cairns, where to his delight he went for a sail on old Roxane. He later lost touch with her various owners, but this sturdy Tercel built kauri vessels quite possibly remains in some Aussie anchorage?
“Home is the sailor, home from the sea” (R L Stevenson) Voyage on brother…”


MATAREKE



N17 Vagrant under construction c1924

N17 Vagrant 1920s

Vera, Jack and daughter Shirley Greenhalgh

The Order Book Is Open For Waitematawoodys T-Shirts
Yesterday’s story on the re-launching of Pacific & My Girl, caused a bit of a stir – nothing to do with the boats, it was all about the photos of people wearing waitematawoodys t-shirts, my email inbox was overflowing with – where’s mine?, where can I buy them? etc.
So folks, it’s been 2 years since I offered up the chance to grab your own WW t-shirt, last year I was just too busy with the boring things in life e.g. work & also getting my boat ready of the Christmas/ NY cruising. This year I’m ahead of the game, for once 🙂 Also the numbers of people reading WW has increased by over 500%, so there are a lot naked woodys out there 🙂
# Your name
# Postal address
# Phone
# Quantity & size/s
Ps – Sent in a sealed courier bag, so if you are ordering for a Xmas present, no-one will know the contents.
Pps – Yes, I can send overseas – freight costs tba
Ppps – My models where flown in from Milan for the shot photo, at great expense – they won’t have to worry about ordering a new shirt 😉

Circle December 1st In The Diary – Big Woody Day / Weekend For CYA Woodys






