Sailing Sundays
CYA member Baden Pascoe blew the dust off his I4 footer today at St Heliers. Baden’s father built her in the early 1980’s & Baden describes her as the Ferrari of light weight clinker sailing dinghys. Must have been a blast for his boys skinning along in a NNE breeze with Tony Blake on the helm.
The tow vehicle is a tad classic as well 🙂
On- Line Classic Yacht Magazine
Ok after yesterdays bombardment of photos of classic kiwi launches I thought today I’d share with you a digital magazine from the USA, remember that the boys in the states call almost anything that floats a yacht, so its a mix of power & sail.
Below is a link to a PDF file to view, but if you want to experience the embedded videos & see the double page spread photos in all their glory, click the link to the on-line version.
I hope this all works – I’m sure someone will post & tell me if it does not.
Enjoy
Click for PDF classicyachtmayjune2014
Click below for on-line viewing
http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/ClassicYacht/classic-yacht-may-june-2014/2014053001/#0
photo ex Nathan Herbert ex NZ Herald
Winter Haul Out
How many of these boats can we ID? Location ? Vos yard? If it helps the date on the photo is July 1930.
Make sure you view the comments section – lots of discussion on this post.
Photo below ex Harold Kidd ex New Zealand Herald – 12 October 1934 – MR. H. D. GUTHRIE’S 45-FOOT CRUISER ALCESTIS
Twenty Eight Feet – life on a little wood boat
I challenge you to watch this 8 minute movie about David Welsford & his life & travels on a H28 & not get itchy feet. Perfect entertainment for a wet Sunday – Enjoy 🙂
Whangateau Traditional Boat Regatta & Yard Open Day – Part 2
Scroll down to previous post to view Part 1 (42 photos)
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Whangateau Traditional Boat Regatta & Yard Open Day
The Whangateau crew of Pam & George once again threw their yard open to lovers of classic wooden boats on Sunday (May 4th 2014). The regatta also served as a welcome to ‘Laughing Lady’ the new motorboat arrival from the USA that will be receiving some WTB love.
The autumn day was perfect – sun,wind & great boats. The food & people were pretty good as well 🙂
The regatta follows a well rehearsed format – boats out on the beach, sailors & crew arrive, boats rigged, wait for the tide (&wind), race begins/ends, lunch, prize giving. Now if that sounds like any old regatta – I can assure you Whangateau is not that. The fun & ‘games’ as people secure a boat, select sails & rudders etc & rig up is hilarious & the old salts on hand prove invaluable, in fact it wouldn’t happen with out them. No problem if something does not fit, its into the workshop & onto to the saw bench for some adjustments. Thanks to Jason Prew & Nathan Herbert for the ride aboard Otira, the 1902 Logan motorboat.
Your own Steve Horsley won the race (again) , chased / followed very closely by launch owner Shane Anderson, who had to draw on his past yachting days to keep Steve honest & win a waitematawoodys t-shirt.
A lot of the crew got into the spirit of the day & dressed as pirates.
I’m not going to attempt to caption all the photos, there are just too many – I post today a selection to give you a gander of what makes the people & the place so special.
Tomorrow I’ll post another selection – there is just too many for one day 😉
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Click the blue link below to read Jane High’s post regatta newsletter
Who Can ID This Yacht
We are over due for a little bit of yachting – now this one will have the crusty old salts scratching their heads. The image is a contact print off a glass plate that was sent to me by Keith Ottaway. The original was taken by his wife’s great grandfather, Richard George Collins.
The location is obviously Devonport & as a starting point, RGC started ‘taking’ photos c.1895
Harold Kidd Update
A most unusual hull-form for Auckland, unlikely to have been built by any of the mainstream builders like Logan or Bailey. She’s a Devonport boat, hauled up alongside the wharf at the foot of Church Street.
My wild guess is that she’s the 4 tonner WANDERER, built in Devonport by Tom Le Huquet in October 1891, soon after he set up in business there. If so she was built as a cruiser for J.C. Webster but was a total loss when she broke away from her moorings under North Head in a hard NE blow in May 1893. She came up on the rocks at St Mary’s Point and was badly damaged. From the sound of it she was beyond economical repair.
Jack Webster immediately ordered another yacht from Robert Logan, the 38ft cutter NGARU, which also had a sad fate when she was wrecked on the south end of Rangipuke Island at Christmas 1900 when owned by C.B. Stone.
The hull-form of the yacht in the image is almost French smack and quite reminiscent of the oyster and crabbing boats Le Huquet had been building in Jersey,. particularly the treatment of the stern. But there were all sorts of hulls being built at the time and I am likely to be totally wrong.
Follow up update 05/05/14
If I’m right, and she does have the ancestry I think, then you can see how this form of hull would work well in an environment where the tides average 40ft and all boats dry out on legs. The extended, flat forefoot, the protected and vertical rudder, plus the great deal of sheer to cope with the short steep seas in the very shallow waters around the Normandy/Brittany coast with strong winds and 10+ knot tides on occasion where much passage making is done by sling-shotting the tides.
Images from the start of today’s Fosters Vintage & Veterans Yacht Race – Ponsonby Cruising Club
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Enjoy 🙂
Mary E Taylor Painting
Image ex John Burland
Painted in 1990 by Devonport painter Mary Taylor, titled ‘Houses & Boats’.
Anyone able to ID the launch, bottom left. Looks a little like my girl – Raindance – but not her.
14/04/2014 Some feedback (ex Rod Marler) from the artist, Mary Taylor.
“Re: the launch in the art piece. This pic is based loosely on a launch I saw that day. I don’t know what its name was but the boats I selected for my pic were based on craft that I liked the look of. They appeared in reality in a bit of a jumble, so the challenge was to place them into a pleasing composition and to simplify what was there.
I was in the Torpedo Bay area looking back to the land”
Whangateau Traditional Boats Regatta – Part Two
photos Shane Anderson, Mark Lever, Alan Wallace & Phillip Jones
Remember clicking on the photos will enlarge then for your viewing
See previous post (below) for more photos
