Dawn
photo ex Paul Drake ex ‘Boats of Taupo’
The above photo shows Dawn on Lake Taupo, seems they were a little care free in the old days in terms of safety & life jackets, at my count there are 19 people on board 🙂
If you are afloat today/night (New Years eve) you be careful out there.
1000th Post
When I did the last post, my confirmation email – told me it was post #999, so I could not let #1000 be a Joe Average post – so not being shy – I thought must be time for a shot of my Raindance. Which I’m sitting on in Huse Bay at the bottom end of Waiheke Island, doing this post 🙂
What happened to all the boats ?-
Either everyone has gone to the Coromandel or the NE winds have scared people away.
EROS
photo & details ex Harold Kidd
The above photo is of the 34ft launch EROS racing in the 1929 Anniversary Regatta in the race for cruisers over 12 knots.
Stan Parker of Parker Engineering bought her in late 1927/early 1928. She was supposedly “well-known on the Manukau” prior to that, but who built her, under what name and when HDK hasn’t yet figured out.
Maybe she was built by Les Coulthard?
Stan Parker re-engined her with a 100hp Hall-Scott (probably an aero-engine) and set about racing her with the NZPBA, Victoria Cruising Club and Devonport Yacht Club. She was an 18 knotter.
Stan sold her to W. Fullerton in June 1935 and took Fullerton’s NOMAD in exchange which he then handed over to Lidgards to completely rebuild, extending her from 35ft to 42ft and renaming her ARAWA. NOMAD had been built in 1919 as IRIHAPETI but is now a bridgedecker known as REHUTAI but supposedly with “Lanes” as her builder and a build date of “1949”.
Fullerton sold EROS off immediately to J. Gresham of Tauranga who had her until at least February 1938.
So, what were EROS’ origins before Stan Parker and what happened to her after 1938 in Tauranga?
TRADITION
photos ex Ken Ricketts ex boatbuilders website
I don’t know much about Tradition, as nice smart looking launch. I understand that she is owned by a couple that divide their time between Tauranga & Wellington. She supposedly originally came from Picton. Has had a refurbishment at Hutcheson Boatbuilders in Tauranga.
Anyone able to supply more details?
Waitemata Wakas
Motoring back from the CYA Patio Bay Race weekend, with Barb & David Cooke aboard Trinidad we passed this impressive fleet of Wakas off North Head, Devonport. Seems they had assembled to get a visiting Waka that was doing (I think) a circumnavigation of the world. An impressive site & of particular interest to the Cookes as their son-in-law Greg Salthouse built them. Very talented & diverse yard is Salthouse’s.
ps big day today – its my birthday 🙂
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 🙂
