Sea Crest – Summer boating in the good old days

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photo ex classicboatnz, chat ex Ken Ricketts

SEA CREST

Ken Ricketts initially thought Sea Crest could have been a Lidgard build but a discussion with his old friend Jim Thomson who has a wonderful recall, on all the Lidgard boats & was involved with the construction of virtually all his boats, from about 1949 onwards, until Roy & his son Jim’s very sad & untimely death at sea, in the 1960’s, has confirmed Sea Crest was not a Lidgard. Reviewing the photo both Ken & Jim feel she may very well be by Billy Rogers.

Sea Crest has a platform on the tuck, which may not be original, as these did not become popular until the very late 1950’s or 1960’s, so she could well have been built just before that time.

She is a lovely boat with superb balance of line, symmetry, colour scheme & is a great advert for her builder & all her owner/s.

Does anyone have information & photos on this boat?

Mahurangi Regatta 2014 – Auckland Anniversary Weekend

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Mahurangi Regatta 2014 – Auckland Anniversary Weekend  

When the cover of the Mahurangi Year Book has the kicker ‘Encouraging the ownership, use & restoration of classic wooden boats’ its a no brainer that I’ll be plugging it on waitematawoodys.

The book/magazine is always a monty & has some very talent people doing the design & production so its a collectable.

You can pick up a copy at Boat Books or Sailors Corner (both in Westhaven). For the out of town’ers its available by emailing Steve Horsley  srhorsley@gmail.com   or phoning Helen Johnson 09 422 3332 . Payment via ASB on-line  12-3095-0126805-00

Price is $15 or $10 if you enter for the regatta

More details on the event here

http:www.mahurangi.org.nz/Regatta2014/General-format.php

Ever Wondered Whats Inside Those Sheds?

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A Peek Inside The Clyde Quay Boat Sheds

In my real life, I have one outside of ww 🙂  ,  I get to work with some very talented people, in 2013 one of my clients partnered with New Zealand’s award winning consumer lifestyle magazine – ‘NZ Life & Leisure’ on a marketing initiative. Just before xmas I was in their offices & they said “hey we have an article in our upcoming Jan/Feb issue that would interest you & your ww readers. So folks here it is a pictorial insight into the Wellington’s Clyde Quay boat sheds, where several CYA members (Phillipa Durkin & Gavin Pascoe) hang out. The passion & enthusiasm that the Gavin & Phillipa, along with the other Wellington Classic Yacht Trust members have is amazing & we should all take a lead from them.

The mag goes on sale today so grab a copy at your local, you can also see more at their never cool website http://nzlifeandleisure.co.nz

You can find out more about the WCYT  here http://www.wcyt.org.nz

Lady Gay – before & after

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LADY GAY – BEFORE & AFTER

‘old’ photos ex Keith Munro, new ex Alan H

The older photos above of Lady Gay show her when Tommy Allan first bought her. I post as inspiration to anyone considering undertaking a restoration, all it takes is money 🙂 (I joke). The combined efforts of a lot of very talented people have gone into bringing LG back to her finest. But she deserves it, she is after all one of the 3 big & beautiful Colin Wild sisters (Lady Gay, Wirihana & Linda) .

Deodar

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DEODAR

photos ex Keith Munro

Ex Auck Police launch. 52ft x 15ft, Millar & Tunnage, 1960, kauri, twin 210hp Cat dsl s (9 – 16 knts). The older photos show her being restored in 1996 by John Wright & Dave Brown.  The ‘older’ photo of her post re-launch in the water has the launch Alwyn alongside.

Deodar has recently had an extensive refit is back to her former glory & now for sale & quote the trademe listing ‘owners will trade & priced reduced to sell.

There have been books written on Deodar’s life in the ‘force’

18/06/2104 A selection of ‘random’ photos added from ex Deodar crew member – John Elingham’s collection. Posted to ensure they are recorded / stored for the future.

click images to enlarge

Also below – a few from John of the ill-fated Wellington police boat – Lady Elizabeth

Corona Christmas Cruise 1938/9 (#1 in series of 4)

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Corona Christmas Cruise 1938/9 (#1 in series of 4)

CORONA CHRISTMAS CRUISE 1938/8

photo collection ex Peter Nunn- note: there will be 4 posts in this series, dedicated to Simon Smith, who aside for being a nice guy – in his words “enjoys photos dredged up from cruises past”.

What a cruise these guys must have had & unknown to them at the time, in less than 9 months the world would be at war (again) & no doubt a fair % of them would have been called up to fight for King & country. I wonder how many made it back 😦

ps If you can not read the captions, drop me an email & I’m send you a high res copy. mailto:waitematawoodys@gmail.com

pps Corona was fully restored in 2011 at the NZ Traditional Boatbuilding School & is currently for sale. If you want to own a piece of NZ classic yachting history, contact Steve Cranch mailto:steve@naturalcraft.co.nz but do it fast, as after a year of no bites, I’m told a sale might be imminent.

Why Aucklanders Should Be Nice To Boaties

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http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/back-in-day-vision-auckland-s-waterfront-video-5785600

Why Aucklanders Should Be Nice To Boaties

Link sent to ww by John Burland

TVNZ recently released this ‘Back In The Day’ video from their archives, the year was 1982 & it shows architect Stephen Smythe’s ‘Vision for Auckland’s waterfront’. Nothing startling here, all one had to do at the time was visit any waterfront city in the world & see what they had done / were doing. The scary thing is it took us 30 years to make it happen & even then was only kicked of by hosting the defence of the America’s Cup. The city has a lot to thank the yachties for 🙂

Worth a look to see the waterfront of old.