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CLASSIC WOODEN EX WORKBOAT – OCEAN STAR

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CLASSIC WOODEN EX WORKBOAT – OCEAN STAR

Recently Graeme Shephard posted the above photo of OCEAN STAR on fb.  Graeme owned the boat in 2001 >2006. She was built in 1942 as a fishing vessel in New Zealand. 16.8 metres LOA.

In the late 1940’s the Government bought her for duties around Auckland and fitted the bigger deck house.

Her engine when Graeme owned her was a 4/71 GM.

Graeme commented that he placed 2 tonnes of lead ingots in the bilges which made her a lot stiffer and easier crossing Cook Strait etc.

Graeme circumnavigated the North Island of NZ in 2006 and then sold her.

Back in May 2023 OCEAN STAR appeared on WW (link below)  sporting a completely new house and residing in Tauranga, photo below. https://waitematawoodys.com/2023/05/10/ocean-star-a-floating-apartment/

She was 4sale at the time – did she sell?

Ocean Star – A Floating Apartment

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OCEAN STAR – A Floating Apartment

Todays woody – Ocean Star, is probably the cheapest apartment / home that you could buy in NZ at the moment. The fact Ocean Star has a bath backs up the owners ‘live aboard’ claim 🙂

Ocean Star is 55’ in length, with a 15’ beam. Built in kauri to a Jack Guard design in c.1950.

If you wanted to leave the mooring a 160hp Detroit 471 diesel engine is below decks. As per the photos she is very well fitted out and at $135k ono seems a bargain. The price includes her Tauranga waterfront mooring.

Thanks to Ian McDonald for the tme listing heads up.

I see in the comments section that she in a previous life was a Govt. vessel servicing the Hauraki Gulf islands – can we learn more about her work-boat days.

15-05-2023 UPDATE: Photo below ex Chris Rabey, sent in by Russell Ward

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