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CYA Riverhead Launch Cruise – Parade of 26 Classic Boats

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CYA Riverhead Launch Cruise – Parade of Boats

Thanks to the camera skills of Jason Prew on Whistleblower, we have a ‘drive-by’ of the fleet off Lucas Creek on-route to the Riverhead Hotel.

Old Boy on an Old Boat on the River

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Old Boat – Old Boy Movie
A great mini movie of an old boy on his boat cruising the Mississippi River, Saint Paul, Minnesota
click the link to play

I love his comment “Is boating for everybody? I do not think so, its for people willing to slow down & go with the flow”

2013 Lake Rotoiti Classic & Wooden Boat Show

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A little late posting this is a short movie from this years Lake Rotoiti (Sth Island) Classic & Wooden Boat Show.
The link was sent by Gary Drummond, Nelson , whose yacht ‘Spangalang’ won best new build in the 2012 show. Not the Waitemata & a lot of non wood but its too good to not view. Enjoy

3 girls on a 1930’s boating picnic. Filmed on Waiheke Island, Auckland, featuring the classic launch Waitangi

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I930’s movie filmed on & around Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand. 3 girls row to a bay for a picnic but are surprised & captured by pirates. Great footage of the classic motor launch ‘Waitangi’ playing the role of Coastguard rescuer & the motor boat ‘Pelican’ as the pirates boat.

Thanks to Roger Guthrie (brother of CYA member Graham) for forwarding this footage to waitematawoodys.

Great 1930’s movie featuring the launch Waitangi

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Fantastic 1930’s movie footage of the launch Waitangi & another motor boat doing close maneuvers between the rocks east of Hooks Bay. The first 1/4 has some great aerial footage of Waiheke Island back then. The skipper must have known the area like the back of his hand because remember there were no gps or depth sounders in those days. All boats I believe were owned the the Stein family.
Waitangi certainly had a bit of zoom zoom in those days -petrol Kermit engine, replaced c.1955 with a diesel.

The movie is titled ‘Beautiful Waiheke’ & I suspect was a promotional movie for Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand. Filmed c.1930 by Alex Lambourne. Features the classic launch Waitangi. The white dinghy in the rowing sequence is called ‘The Beagle’.
Starring Peter Stein, Dean Ellingham, Alan Lambourne, Joan Woollams, Arthur Nicholson, Cynthia Restall, Shirley Vicary + others

Thanks to Roger Guthrie (brother of CYA member Graham) for forwarding this footage to waitematawoodys.