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Alcestis Northland Cruise Xmas/NY 1931/2 – Post #2

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Alcestis at sea
Shenandoah from Alcestis – Whangaroa Heads in background
Alcestis
Alcestis & Lady Margaret @ Mangonui
Lady Margaret & Alcestis @ Mangonui
Alcestis Northland Cruise Xmas/NY 1931/2 – Post #2
 
Alcestis punching thru a little bit of a sea, love that the skipper must have called ‘all-hands on deck’. Other photos show Alcestis & Lady Margaret doing a water stop at Mangonui Wharf. Lady Margaret at an unknown wharf & another of LM astern of  Alcestis.

Alcestis Northland Cruise Xmas/NY 1931/2 – Post #1

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Photo 4 – Alcestis nosing into the falls
Photo 3 – Lady Margaret (L) & Alcestis at Haruru Falls
Photo 5 – Alcestis forefront, Lady Margaret rear
Photo 1 – Shenandoah from aboard Alcestis
Photo 2 – Lady Margaret (L) & Luana (R) at Haruru Falls

 

Alcestis Northland Cruise Xmas/NY 1931/2 – Post #1
In December 1931 / January 1932 the Guthrie family on their launch Alcestis headed north in convoy with Lady Margaret & Shenandoah, one of the highlights was an inland cruise from Paihia to the Haruru Falls*.
Photo 1 – Shenandoah from aboard Alcestis
Photo 2 – Lady Margaret (L) & Shenandoah (R) at Haruru Falls
Photo 3 – Lady Margaret (L) & Alcestis at Haruru Falls
Photo 4 – Alcestis nosing into the falls
Photo 5 – Alcestis forefront, Lady Margaret rear
*Haruru Falls are 3k inland from Paihia, the area was New Zealand’s first river port, a key hub for the many trading Maori tribes in the area. When the first ‘white’ boat (missionaries) came inland, they counted over 100 maori canoes on the banks. As part of the settlement a hotel was built & was one of the first hotels in NZ to have a ‘Traveller’s License’, which allowed irregular drinking hours (due to the tide). When the hotel burnt down in 1937, it was then over 100 years old.

 

Mothers Day

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Mothers Day

Mothers Day

ALCESTIS

Today is all about mums, past & present + families. What better photo to remind us about family life than the one above taken during the Guthrie family 1931/2 Xmas / NY Northland cruise on their launch Alcestis.
Over the next few days I will post some stunning photos of Alcestis (now Raiona), Lady Margaret & Shenandoah cruising around the far north.
Enjoy today.

special thanks to Graham Guthrie for sharing his grandparents photos

Raiona

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Raiona 2010 Mahurangi Regatta
Raiona c1950s
Photo of Raiona motoring out of North Channel, Kawau Island on the day of the ‘tidal wave’ ex Chile
RAIONA.
Designed & built by Joe Slattery in 1919 , she was owned by Secombes, accountants, of Remuera, in the later 1940s & 50s, moored at Whakatakataka Bay, & hardly used. — they replaced the original engine, which I think may have been a Lowes Knight, with a Leyland “Comet,” marine diesel, she also had a 4 cyl Graymarine wing motor. Later owned by Bob Cleave.

Photo of Rainoa below taken by Russell Ward 29 December 2013

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23/02/2015 – photos below off Onetangi, New Year 2015, ex Peter Loughlin

 2018 photo below 
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