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Seaward
photo ex Shane Anderson
The photo of Seaward above was taken last week at Kawau. She has just had a major makeover & is looking very sharp, unlike myself who is very hangover 😦 so hopeful others will expand on this very historic yacht.
Update & Some Great Yarns From Harold Kidd
I spent many hours trying to establish her provenance and wrote a series of articles about her in Boating NZ. They also dealt with her extensive ocean racing and cruising career which rivaled Ngataki’s . Links below, read 1>5 😉
Waimanu – classic designed kauri Herreshoff
Now I do not often feature classics for sale on ww but when they are as good looking & salty as Waimanu I can not help myself. At $95,000 ono, she would have to be one of the best value for money vessels on the market & given her fit out, you could be sailing away tomorrow.
Design: Nereia – Ketch
Designer: Herreshoff
Launched: 1992
Hull Material: Kauri Carvel Planked, Deck Material: Teak, Rig: S/S
Builder: Bill Cartwright
Engines: Ford 1972, 72hp – done 700 hours
Cruise speed: 6 knots, Max speed: 7 knots
LOA: 10.9m, Lwl: 9.6m, Beam: 3.5m, Draft: 1.8m, Displacement: 10.886 Kg
Berths: 1 double & 4 singles
Shower: 1
Head 1 with Electrasan
Also:
Solar panels, Small rib with 2 hp motor, Chart plotter, VHF, GPS, Sound system, Lamps, Clock, Barometer, Freezer, Fridge, Stove, Barbecue
Contact the owner direct: e-mail margo.hudson@xtra.co.nz or 0274 932 887
More Mahurangi Regatta Photos ex Chris Miller
No words to today – just eye candy 🙂
Mahurangi Regatta 2014 Snapshot
Just returned from the regatta, another great classic event. Above is a selection of photos from the weekend. Most of the regular classics were in attendance & have been photographed to death before. This selection are just images & boats that caught my eye & I post to give you a ‘taste’ of the weekend. I’ll feature some in more detail over the next few days.
If you click on the photos, you can view bigger images in a slide show format.
Enjoy
ps Anniversary Day regatta today so another opportunity to see some of the classic sailing fleet up close + the Tug / Work Boat race is always a hoot.
CORONA CHRISTMAS CRUISE 1938/8
photo collection ex Peter Nunn
NZ Antique & Classic Boatshow
Nelson Lakes National Park, February 2014
Classic boat-lovers have the opportunity to indulge in a long weekend of glorious hydromatic relaxation at St Arnaud in the Nelson Lakes National Park, with this year’s NZ Antique and Classic Boat Show linking with Waitangi Day.
Some photos from the 2010 event here http://classicyacht.org.nz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=810&hilit=NZ+Antique+%26+Classic+Boat+show
The show is set for the weekend of February 8 & 9 and Coordinator Pete Rainey says if people can wangle Friday off they’ve got a four day mini-holiday.
“It’s the same weekend as Taste Marlborough and a Tasman Makos’ game in Blenheim so it’s an excellent time for North Islanders or Cantabrians to see what a varied range of action the Top of the South can offer,” he said. “Being a month earlier than usual means the weather is more stable for visitors who want to pack in a bit of mountain-biking, some exploration of the Nelson Lakes National Park or a few visits to our famous vineyards and art galleries.”
But for the true enthusiast, there’s no reason to wander further afield than the shore of Lake Rotoiti where the Classic Boat Show takes place.
“There will be the usual range of boats…cedar kayaks, jet boats from the 60s, clunky clinkers and veteran wooden yachts,” Rainey said. “From early morning on both days of the weekend you can wander around the boats on land, chat with the owners, view displays with stories of restoration and rebuild and then watch the races on the lake in the afternoon. We have a lot of fun, from the slightly chaotic sail-past to the Seagull dinghy race with its Le Mans start, which always has some poor bugger who can’t get his motor going.”
Another attraction this year is the new Nelson Lakes Classic Boat Museum, alongside the Clinker Café and gift shop complex at the St Arnaud village. It will be open with boating displays all weekend.
The NZ Antique and Classic Boatshow is now in its 16th year, and continues to grow in the number and quality of craft presented, as well as the number of people coming to view the boats and the action. Judging will take place on Saturday, ahead of an evening awards ceremony at the Alpine Lodge. At stake is the Jens Hansen Trophy where the judges are after good looks as well as history, construction and a boat with a story to tell.
Other awards include prizes for best new restoration, best steamboat, best jet-propelled craft and best themed display. Races will be held for yachts, row boats, seagull motored dinghies, poppers, canoes, child rowers and swimmers.
All boats will be checked for noxious aquatic weeds, and oil leaks before entering the water; and boaties are reminded to be aware of minimising the spread of didymo. And remember DOC has released Kiwi into the National Park very close to where the show takes place, so no antique and classic dogs please!
More info at http://www.nzclassicboats.com
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Corona Christmas Cruise 1938/9 (#2 in series of 4)
CORONA CHRISTMAS CRUISE 1938/8
photo collection ex Peter Nunn
Sterling – Launch Race Winner 
Sterling – Launch Race Winner 
Strathalan – 2nd Place Launch Race 
Kumi – 3rd Place Launch Race 
Moanalua 
Lucille 
Rorqual 
Maggie 
John Dory & Tuna 
Kailua 
La Rosa & Strathalan 
Lillian 
Lillian 
Alpheus 
Lucille & Raindance 
Iorangi 
Unknown 
Jeunesse -won best looking launch in the bay 
Maggie & Summer Wine 
Hayden Afford looking very happy (r Michelle Knan)
CYA Patio Bay Race Weekend / Xmas Party
A fantastic weekend – as always – nice boats, nice weather & nice people.
This year we had approx. 60 classic’s in the bay & over 200 people went ashore for the post race CYA Xmas party at Bert & Margaret Woollcotts bach.
In the launch race (mark-foy start) the placings were – 1st & winner of the Rudder Centennial Cup – Sterling (Brett Evans), 2nd Strathalan (Keith Munro), 3rd Kumi (Hayden Afford)
I’ll let the photos tell the story of the weekend.
Enjoy
More great photos from John Bertenshaw here
The Mullet boat Waitomo / Disgraceful
Hello – I wondered if anyone might be able to help, I’m trying to track details on a Mullet boat my brother Neil Thompson, who now lives in Australia, used to own.
The boat was named Waitomo – he tells me she was known as “dizzy” or disgraceful from early 70’s to late 80’s as she was a wreck, laid up on the mudflats of Birkenhead for many years and someone wrote on her side in mud – this boat is disgraceful and the name stuck like the mud!
He is wondering where the boat has got too – all he knows is that it was trucked to the Bay of Islands in 1999 and possibly purchased by a gentleman who belonged to the Opua yacht club.
Sorry it’s not much to go on but I wondered whether this might ring any bells. My brother is coming across in January and is keen to see the boat again if we can locate it.
I tracked down these pics from the web and I’m not sure of the dates.
Many thanks for your help! Lisa – contact email below
Lisa.Thompson@radionz.co.nz
Harold Kidd Input
Strictly speaking WAITOMO isn’t/wasn’t a “mullet boat”. She is/was a 16 footer S Class of roughly mullet boat configuration but in miniature.
Her registered number was S40 originally but changed to V244 (as shown in the images) as she was either over 16ft or was lengthened to 18ft.
I think her original name was BUNGAREE and she was built about 1929.
She was called DISGRACEFUL in 1953 when her owner was Charles Lindegreen and Eriksen, followed by Glen Thompson of Westmere.
Alan H Update – I think some wag has had a little ‘play’ with the photos in the past, the helmsman looks a bit too curvaceous & its not from the normal mullet boat diet of meat pies and Lion Reds 🙂
Robin Elliott Update 23/12/13
I’m not so sure that the is/was Bungaree, although one cannot rule anything out.
Bungaree appears as S-40 in 1929 and is around until around 1933 when she vanishes.
In 1938 S-40 was allocated to Leilani, a square bilge ‘sharpie type’ of English design built by Roy Brummell, and famously photographed in the NZ Herald, in serous cruising mode, decorated with RAF roundels and with crew wearing US Navy gob hats. (HDK – see the S-class file of photographs now in your possession).
To also confuse, a 16-foot mullet boat type, but ROUND bilge, named Leilani and carrying S-4 was wrecked in Okahu Bay in 1898 and her hull towed away to the tip.
Disgraceful appears as S-40, owned by Erikson & Lindgreen in 1951, then B.S.G. Keene of Whangarei in 1957. I also have an unsubstantiated note that she was built in Whangarei just prior to the War, and she is similar to a couple of unknown (to me anyway) mullet boat types in an old Whangarei photo album that I must get back from the WCC..
Around 1960 she re-appears as Waitomo registered as V-244 because the AYMBA had stopped registering boats for the S-class and all boats less than 18-feet were registered as V’s. Loads of confusion anyway because the V-200 numerical series was begun in 1955 to cater for the 18-foot Flying Squardon V’s (V-201 Envy, V-202 Quandary, V-203 Quiz). By the early 1960’s when Waitomo came along the AYMBA was only half-heartedly registering 18-footers and probably didn’t give a toss that Waitomo was nothing like a Flying 18.
During this period her owners were :L.K. Murray 1961?/63+?; D.O.(Stuart) Munro (Hamilton East) 1965?/77+? (still shows as owner in 1978 NZYF); and Shane Kelly (ex Sea Spray editor) some time in the early 1980’s.
I remember seeing her on the hard at Okahu Bay in the mid-late 1980’s. She was VERY deep chested and probably drew the best part of 18 inches, quite tubby like a little Loloma which for a 16-footer was really unusual.She was wrecked in Okahu Bay in 1989 & her hull towed away to the tip.
Photos below ex Pam at Whangateau Traditional Boat yard
The top photo is Fleetwing S11 on the left and Des Demona on the right (18 ft mullety), they are laid up in the backyard of 96 Vermont Street Ponsonby in 1942 for war times.
Pam would like to know who built Fleetwing and what happened to her? The photo was given to Pam from Des Pittams a previous owner of Des Demona.
Anyone able to put a make to the van towing Des Demona.
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