CLASSIC EX WORKBOAT – VEDETTE

Recently on one of the many boating channels I follow the launch VEDETTE popped up , a gent named Tony Howse was considering buying the boat and needed a builders name to obtain insurance to haul-out for an inspection.

Tony commented that the boat was built from double diagonal kauri planks.

Its believed that she was originally on the Kaipara Harbour  and then in the late 1960’s moved to Raglan as the harbour masters boat for a period of approx. 20 years.

Can we learn more about the launch.

01-06-2025 UPDATES

TONY HOWSE – I’ve owned her for 20 plus years.The best cray and fishing boat I’ve ever owned. My 4 kids have grown up learning to fish off her. I have just sold her and she’s hopefully back to the Bay of Islands.

REUBEN PARR – Our family used to own Vedette on the Kawhia Harbour in the late 1960s. She was powered by a Morris Vedette petrol engine.  My memory is that my father said she was a Logan and had been a pilot boat, but not sure how correct that was.

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