
A friend of a friend bought this for him in France. And it gets used & we are all very grateful for the friend of the friends gift.

A friend of a friend bought this for him in France. And it gets used & we are all very grateful for the friend of the friends gift.
Built as a commercial fishing boat for coastal long lining the objective of the overall design and construction methods was to create a simple, cost effective and easy driven vessel. John Dory is also an outstanding sea boat and has demonstrated this ability on many occasions.
Her 27hp Lister Diesel is a good example of the type of machinery once used in small coastal fishing boats. John Dory is well maintained to a commercial standard. Howard Pascoe cruised the Coromandel and Northern Coastline up until his death in 2001.
23/09/2014 – The Lister is getting some love, including a new (out of the box) reduction box – love the bronze nuts.

Little Jim & Raindance in Patio Bay, post race, prior to the CYA Christmas Party

This ones a blast from the past, Aumoe the 1913 Tom Le Huquet designed launch rafted alongside Radio Hauraki’s pirate radio ship – ‘Tiri’. One has to wonder what she was delivering………………….

You have to love the depth charges (??) on the stern & the (now days) very un-PC cartoon on them 🙂 🙂

One of the prettiest boats in the CYA, owned by one of the nicest guys (Steve Horsley)
All I know is the location is Matakana. A fellow waitematawoody advised that the people aboard could possibly by the Ravenhall family of Victoria Ave Remuera . photo c1939

Boats like Falcon do not appear for sale often, this one has the plus of being owned by James Mobberley, Auckland’s foremost classic launch engineer (Moon Engines) for the last 12 years.
Link below
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/motorboats/auction-579016372.htm

Do not be fooled by the ‘old’ effects on the photo, I ‘dated’ it. A few CYA launches here that we do not see nowadays 😦