Jack Brooke Cruise Collection #14 – Kiariki Easter 1962
Another Jack Brooke drawing, published on ww thanks to son Robert making them available to ww followers. Jack produced a hand drawing on each cruise. Todays post is the 14th featured.
The above drawing records the travels of Kiariki over Easter 1962, they cruised to Kawau Island, Leigh & Waiheke Island & a few points in-between.
Crew: John Brooke, R Hunt snr., R Hunt jnr., R Smith & W Bass.
WW t-shirts
I have been playing around with a t-shirt for ww’s for a while – several design prototypes have been done & styles of shirt tested.
Now if I asked my 23 yr. old son to wear a t-shirt, any t-shirt, he would tell me where to go. So when he ‘steals’ one of the latest designs & then wears it to the extended family & friends xmas lunch today, I think I might have a hit on a good design + his mates at lunch all asked for one 🙂
ps the raspberry pavlova was a winner as well.
Merry Christmas Waitemata Woodys
I hope Santa found you and delivered up what ever it was that you wished / hoped to get, whether it was something material (think boat stuff) or just a call / visit from someone special.
I’ll keep this short so you can make that Xmas lunch / dinner. Waitematawoodys is all about you, the readers and the team that post comments and send me their photos and stories. Its you that make it happen.
My view is that ww is just the window into the passion we all share and I’d like to think ww has helped propagate that passion.
I have a request – if you have not posted a comment on ww or sent in any material, please do in 2015. I’m here to empower you to tell stories about our passion thru photographs, words and videos. Stories about the diverse people, history, events and activities that make up the wooden boating community.
Enjoy the holidays and safe boating
Alan Houghton
ps as much as technology afloat will allow, I’ll keep the ww posts running so make sure you check in daily & remember if you see a good looking woody out there – take a photo & email it to me 🙂
Valdora – E Class – E19
photo ex Roger Guthrie ex Sue Robertson
Roger spoted this photo while visiting Sue & Iain Robertson. The owner of E19 at the time the photo was taken was Eric Paton, father of Sue. Like most of the yachties from the older days Eric was a bit of an adventurer – he took flying lessons from the Walsh Bros.
Anyone able to shed some light on E19 & what happening to her.
ps -sorry about the photo it was taken of a framed print (thru glass)
Update from Robin Elliott
That’s the much-travelled Valdora, owned by Eric Paton 1922 through to 1924.
Built by Charlie Gouk in 1904 as a centre boarder, probably a Rudder design, for Charles Palmer. She often raced in the open centreboard ‘patiki-type’ divisions because she was excluded from racing against keelers and could not conform to the new mullet boat restrictions that were being formulated around the same time.
She took E-19 when the new numbering system was introduced in 1921. Billy Rogers bought her in 1925 and a season later, sold her to the Manukau.
She returned from the Manukau in 1930, purchased by R. Curry who had Joe Slattery convert her to a keel yacht – a very big deadwood. Her E-19 sail number had been re-issued and she took number E-29 (in those days a boat lost its sail number if it left the Waitemata – tedious long story, too long for sunday) .
She went through a number of owners, probably more than I have recorded and disappears after 1950. Probably just cruising, but may have surfaced in Wellington in the 1960’s. There was a Valdora registered with Port Nick in 1964, and later with Mana Cruising club in 1973. Possible but seems unlikely though.
Offered for sale in Traditional boat Magazine in May 1989 in Auckland.
She was still sailing and I saw her in 1991 on the hard at Okahu Bay having repaint. During the 1990’s she was a regular on the Okahu Bay slipway. She does not appear to have ever been registered with NZYF/YNZ.
I last saw her 5/1/2009, Tied up alongside Fullers workshop at Opua in a fairly messy, un-loved state and later on a mooring across the other side. She wasn’t there last time I went in to Opua.
Photos below from Jason Prew (c.2003)
Jack Brooke Cruise Collection #13 – Kiariki Xmas 1961/62
Another Jack Brooke drawing, published on ww thanks to son Robert making them available to ww followers. Jack produced a hand drawing on each cruise. Todays post is the 13th featured.
The above drawing records the travels of Kiariki during the Xmas 1961/62 cruise to Kawau Island, Kerikeri (Bay of Islands), Great Barrier all points in-between. Sounds like the weather gods did not smile for the trip north. If Robert or Judith are reading they might like to enlighten readers on the ‘birds & wasps’ reference.
Crew: John Brooke, Elsie Brooke, Judith Brooke, Howard Wallace, Monty Wallace & Richard Purchase.
Harold Kidd Update
ETHEL was built by Logan Bros for Herbert Dawson who owned Mercury Island. He used her for carrying supplies to the island and wool and stock to the coast, usually Whangapoua. She was therefore more generous in beam than most yachts of her time which proved useful when she was later used for racing on the Waitemata by W.J. Quelch and W.R. Ingram after Dawson sold her in 1912.
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 🙂
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
Who’s The Lad On The boom?
I cant say where this early 1940’s photo came from as that would give the game away.
Who can ID the very young boat builder, sitting on the boom of a Mullet boat counting the fish he has just caught?
A hint – he is still building boats 🙂
(I’m posting this from aboard ‘Trinidad’ in Patio Bay – @ the CYA Race Weekend / Xmas Party – check ww tomorrow – lots of photos)
Jack Brooke Cruise Collection #12 – Kiariki Xmas 1960/61
Another Jack Brooke drawing, published on ww thanks to son Robert making them available to ww followers. Jack produced a hand drawing on each cruise. Todays post is the 12th featured – this one has the most attention to detail so far – lots happening – lost dinghy, ran out of beer, crew mutiny due to frequent deep water anchoring + more 🙂
The above drawing records the travels of Kiariki during the Xmas 1960/61 cruise to the Bay of Islands & all points in-between.
Crew: John Brooke, Elsie Brooke, Judith Brooke, Howard Wallace, Monty Wallace & Rob Wallace.
CYA Classic Journal – Issue #97 + a bonus boat
Two parts to todays post – firstly click the blue link to read the latest edition (Dec 2014) of the Classic Yacht Association – ‘Classic Journal’. Feature stories are a great day out for the launch division at the Whangateau boat yard & the relaunch of Innismara. CYADEC2014
And a few shots below of a wee wooden run-about I saw in Avondale, hopefully about to get some TLC.
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