Sailing Sunday – Mystery Yacht photo ex Keith Ottaway
Keith was having a clean out & found the photo below, he presumes it’s a contact print from one of the glass plates he has from his wife’s great grandfather Collins collection.
Not sure of the date – but the collection starts around 1895, looking at that ship that is dressed in the background – this looks later than that – possibly up
to 1920.
So todays mystery is – name the boat and the date. The name most likely starts with a T or a W 😉
KERERU (Pamela) photos & details ex Ken Ricketts, edited by Alan H.
According to her owner, Mike Rowe, Kereru was designed by Couldrey & built by Atkinson. She looks totally original, is 28′ & powered with a Perkins diesel. Rowe has owned her for 25 years.
She has amazing similarities to the Brin Wilson built Kereru, featured in an earlier ww post & seen on the front cover of the June edition of Sea Spray, back in 1960.
Anyone able to shed some light on her past & confirm the design/build?
09-05-2016 @ Gulf Harbour (Ken R photos)
10-05-2016 Harold Kidd Input
Interesting letter from Bill Longhurst’s son attached. I was rather flattered that he thought this was my site. Naturally I put him straight and copied to Alan.
“Hi Harold, Saw the photos of Kereru on your Wooden boat site. Funny enough I googled Bill longhurst, who was my father and I see his name come up on Wooden boats, and I go into the site and the first photos come up of the Kereru……28 foot launch.
Just to put the record straight the 3 photos are definitely that of Dads launch the Pamela. Built by Keith Atkinson, and designed by Bill Couldrey that happened to live in the same street in Northcote- Heath Avenue.
Dad owned the launch for only 4 years or so, and then sold it to a guy that lived in Picton I think, it was road transported to Wellington and sailed to Picton.
Dad sold it due to poor health, he was a Art teacher at Northcote College for 26 years and retired at 55 years of age due to a heart condition, he had a hard life due to being a navagator in the Air force in World war 2, and died at the age of 62 from cancer.
I can tell by the photos that you have that this is Dads boat by the water deflecters he made, that look like boonarangs at the end of the cabin on both sides, and have photos that are identical to this.
I have since seen the boat on a pile mooring in the Weti river at Stillwater.
Amazing to see these photos of Pamela again………..
Hope some of this information has been helpful to you.
Regards Robb Longhurst.
And yes the engine was a Perkins 4107 diesel- 60hp”
So there’s a “new” Couldrey launch for us.
09-12-2022 UPDATE – ex John Oates. I have reverted back to the as launched name of Pamela on my Couldrey designed and Atkinson built launch (photo below). The main reason being that I couldn’t get my head around the idea that a seagoing vessel should have a land bird name. It also helps that my Herreshoff SK (Stuart Knockabout) 28 day sailer is named Pam. I like that connection between them
Jack Brooke Cruise Collection #10 – Kiariki Xmas 1950/60
Another drawing from Robert Brooke done by his father, Jack Brooke, again ww thanks Robert for making them available to ww followers. Jack produced a hand drawing on each cruise. Todays post is the 10th featured – again the detail is amazing.
The above drawing records the travels of Kiariki during the Xmas 1959/60 cruise to Kawau Island > Gt Barrier Island >back to Kawau > Mahurangi.
Crew: John Brooke, Elsie Brooke, Judith Brooke, Robert Brooke, Gail Hall & Ross Duder. On the Kawau leg – Max & Bobby Walker. On the Mahurangi leg – Nick & Tim Gurr.
Now this is what classic boating is all about – nice boat & nice people enjoying themselves in the spring weather 🙂
Joan was designed / built in 1919 by Bailey & Lowe so should get a tick from Mr Kidd. Even though Joan is a CYA vessel, I do not know much about her, so if anyone can shed some light – please do.
Photo taken by Greg Fenwick off Onetangi, Waiheke Island.
Whats the bet there wasn’t x12 life jackets on-board 😦
04-11-2024 Input ex Steven – My Great Grandfather was James Donald and the “Marion D” was named after his wife. I have just inherited his Hardy Bros “Sea Silex” 7″ reel and Tanekaha rod that he used when fishing with Zane Grey along with two photos, one holding the Rod and reel fighting a fish, the other with a swordfish in deep water cove, BOI. My Great grandfather used to have a wool-mongers in Cox’s bay and would cruise the coast buying sheep from the farmers and then have them barged to Cox’s bay Auckland. This saved the farmers from having to walk there sheep to Auckland. Alex was his oldest Son, Trevor was the middle son and Raymond(my grandfather) was the youngest son. He also had a daughter but everyone called her “Girly”. So I am unsure of her name. From what I was told The Donalds still owned the boat during WW2 as it was commandeered from the family by the Navy during the war. Great to know she is still around, I had come to a dead end searching the “Marion D”. I will look out for a boat named “Joan”
Tasman Star was anchored in Little Shoal Bay just off Bill’s house a few weeks ago. From the photo she looks like a great an ex-fishing boat conversion. Thats a serious dry stack on the starboard side, still it most likely works a treat.
I’m sure one of the woodys thats in the ‘Work Boat’ group will be able to supply more details.
Update ex Baden Pascoe
Nice to see a work boat come up on Woodys. I’m not 100% sure who built her but Dick Lang rings a bell?.
She was built for the ‘dallies’ out west in the 1930’s. Her owner in the early days was Steve Mihaljevich, he fished for the Auckland Seine Boat Ass. Later
on she was owned by the one and only Ginger Gibbs.
Now this ones a big ask – all I know is the current owner of the photo, Harold Kidd, bought the photo (a bit blurry) at an antique fair.
Come on classic woody spotters – who can ID her ? the very flat face of the cabin front, must help.
The 3 photos above by taken by Tudor Collins in the Bay of Islands c.1955 of the Miami-registered game fisher Maňana III. The images were bought at a flea-market by Sharon Knight who has made them available via Harold for all of ww followers to relish.
Harold had no idea that this boat ever came out here to fish, but here is the proof. She appears to have been built by Dittmore as the 48 footer Irish Lady and renamed Manaňa III when bought by Capt J. C. Lusk USN (retd) of Annapolis in 1948.
Sadly she was wrecked in Alaska some years ago.
Mooching around Waiheke Island over Labour Weekend 2014, I went for an early morning row & spotted Kamalii anchored in Onetangi. Quite a sight in the early morning (sun rise) light. Anyone able to supply some more info on this rather nice yacht?
Update: Just discovered a very current, up-to-date blog on Kamalii – all you want to know here.
Jack Brooke Cruise Collection #9 – Kiariki Xmas 1963/64
Another stunning drawing from Robert Brooke done by his father, Jack Brooke, again ww thanks Robert for making them available to ww followers. Jack produced a hand drawing on each cruise. Todays post is the 9th featured – check out the attention to detail.
The above drawing records the travels of Kiariki during the Xmas 1964/65 cruise to Gt Barrier Island, Te Kouma & Waiheke Island.
Crew: John Brooke, Elsie Brooke, Peter Walker, Marty Wallace, Rob Wallace (& another Wallace whose christian name I can not read on the drawing).
PANIA photo & details ex Ken Ricketts, edited by Alan H.
How there are a lot of holes in this post – hopefully we will be able to fill some of them.
Lets start with what we know – Pania is 28 feet long & powered by an 80 hp Ford diesel, which the owner, Don Cooper, thinks may be original. The owner has had her for 2 years & keeps her at Gulf Harbour Marina. Cooper bought her off a Mr Dave Nicholson, who he says had owned her for approx. 10 years. Nicholson had her moored at Te Atatu, when he owned her.
Now for the ‘holey’ bits – Cooper has been told & believes that she was built by Bill Couldrey in 1962 & that he has been told by someone, that Couldrey had built her for his daughter originally, but he has been told since, by a lady, that this lady was a relation Couldrey & that Couldrey didn’t have a daughter, so, of course Cooper does not know what to believe.
Any input into filling the holes would be good.
15-03-2016 Hauled out at Gulf Harbour (photos Ken R)
31-07-2016 Trolling thru the photo files & came across these photos, below, of Pania, both ex Rosemary Robinson, granddaughter of LC Coultard. (note Rosemary’s records have Pania at 30′)
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