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A NEW CLASSIC BOAT IS LAUNCHED – MALOLO 

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THIRD TIME LUCKY 🙂
PROUD DESIGNER – NICK PEAL

A NEW CLASSIC BOAT IS LAUNCHED – MALOLO 

Today woodys you are seeing the future of classic motor boating, MALOLO is best described as a salon style launch, in America they call them Picnic boats.

Having had the privilege of being at the launch last week and getting up close to MALOLO I can report the future looks outstanding. 

Some facts –

• MALOLO was designed by Nick Peal and built at Wayne Olsen’s Horizon Boats yard.

• She is appprox 35’ (10.6m) in length and has a beam of 10.5’ (3.2m).

• Forward motion is from a Yanmar 315hp diesel naturally aspirated engine.

Her owner went to great length to keep her as low tech as possible but there is no shortage of systems to enhance the on-the-water experience.

Her name MALOLO means ‘Rest & Relax’ in Samoan.

Below is a snap shot gallery from the Horizon Boats yard.

Once MALOLO has had all her sea trials and gets thru the xmas / ny period we will revisit for more details.

Now a shout for Wayne Olsen and Horizon Boats – if you like what you see today, Wayne is ready to build one for you.  

Is This The Future Of Woody Boating?

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Is This The Future Of Woody Boating?

Normally on Boxing Day you would expect a boatbuilders yard to be very quiet – but if your were anywhere near Greg Salthouse’s Greenhite yard on the 26th Dec you would have witnessed a very special event. The yard launched two sister 10m weekender boats – ARIHI and GRACE.
Below is the story behind these two stunning launches, as told to me by Delayne Salthouse –
“Nick Peal has been with Salthouse Boatbuilders for over 38 years, and in that time construction methods have morphed and developed to achieve better this, faster that, lighter these or more efficient those. While those improvements are important and incorporated where needed, for the likes of Nick there is nothing better than getting back to the beautiful basics of a traditional build.
You can imagine the excitement when the yard received a brief to design & build two traditional looking 10m craft  that would reclaim some of the classic lines and charm of New Zealand’s coastal cruiser. This is in sharp contrast to the imported ‘plastic creations’ we see so many of in New Zealand boating in these days.
The concept plans and line drawings were done by Chris Salthouse, from these Nick has crafted Arihi & Grace utilising double skin ply, with solid timber keelson and gunwale, The boats were then heavily sheathed with double bias glass to make a robust, strong and lightweight boat.”
They are powered by a Hyundai 270hp stern leg, will cruise at 25-30 knts, and top out at around 37 knts. There is a huge super king front island berth + quarter berth with ample saloon seating that can also be a berth. Head, shower, simple cooker, fridge, large cockpit. PLUS Trailerable !!!
The boats are very easy on the eye and I have already had people asking me – who, what, where in terms of the designer / builder.
Well done Greg, Delayne, Chris, Nick & the team at Salthouses – I think you are onto a winner here.

The Launching

Arihi Splashes

Grace Splashes

Photo below sent in by Steve Finnigan – lots of zoom used on the camera/phone

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Grace