MYSTERY WOODEN VESSELS AT COROMANDEL 

Todays woody photo comes to us from Ross Dawson and is dated c.1957 and the location is Coromandel. The image is from a postcard and that woodys is all we know  – so we throw this open for input – can we ID the wooden craft – L>R.

I’m not too sure about the aqua section on the workboat looking vessel, an unusual colour for 1957 and also doesn’t quite look kosher eg added to the photo at a later date.

INPUT ex MURRAY McGEHAN – The boat in the right hand  side of the postcard picture is LADY WYN LADY WINN designed built and owned by the strongman family, moored outside their workshop. I last saw Lady Wyn in the Havelock marina about 1974. 

INPUT ex JACKIE CAREY – The vessel is named the Lady Winn was built by my Uncle Sam Strongman and my father Harold Carey in the Strongman boat building sheds in Coromandel owned by Sam Strongman, my father’s brother in law.   She was built as a family launch and we had many lovely adventures on her going to great barrier, Port Charles and around the islands in the Hauraki Gulf.  Including coming out of Port Charles straight into some huge waves that were crashing over the bow and my father kept going until we got back to coromandel harbour.  My grandmother was praying in the cabin while us kids were enjoying the ride in the stern not having any idea of the seriousness of the situation.  She did have a mast.

INPUT ex Dave Giddens – In the mod 1960’s she was the support vessel on one of the Auckland to Suva yacht races.

INPUT ex LEW REDWOOD – Could  the front launch outside  Strongman’s  in the Coromandel be TWYLIGHT  built by  Strongmans  – photos below.