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………………….
Aumoe
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Wirihana in WW2 ‘uniform’
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You have to love the depth charges (??) on the stern & the (now days) very un-PC cartoon on them 🙂 🙂
Must be time for another yacht photo – Ngatira
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One of the prettiest boats in the CYA, owned by one of the nicest guys (Steve Horsley)
Fisherman 1 – Shark 0
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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
One of the most iconic woodies on the waitemata harbour is for sale – Be quick.
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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
CYA launch cruise to the Riverhead Hotel a few years ago
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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 😦
An oldie
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Can you ID the boats – think Menai, Apache, Valsan
Rocky Bay (Waiheke Island) Memorial Cruising Club
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Hows this for a club house, even has a haul out cradle along side.
Seafever (l) & Awarua (r)
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Seafever (Bob Salthouse 1959) & Awarua (designed by Roy Lidgard 1946) at anchor in Shark Bay, Ponui Island, Easter 2013
An Oops
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Someone spent too long at the winery & forgot about the tide 🙂
