A few Auckland classics

[John B]

Out at the viaduct basin currently

This was a bit funny .. I dropped in on friday about lunch and saw Katrina, the K class, but one of our classic yacht assn guys ( Rod ) said he saw Sapphire out. No, says I , it was Katrina. No said Rod .....sure it was Sapphire.

What John saw fri lunchtime ish
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4081_1.jpg
what Rod saw fri evening ish
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4101_2.jpg
Its a konspiracy I tell ya. Good trick, swappaboat.

and then there's those other old things.
Iorangi out

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4085_6.jpg
and Rainbow.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4082_7.jpg

and an interesting little counterpoint
Southern hemisphere state of the art design in 1899 V 2009
Rainbow at 50 ft and Alfa at twice that.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4087_5.jpg

[Stiletto]

I just love the sheer in your first pic.

[Paul Fitzgerald]

Out at the viaduct basin currently

This was a bit funny .. I dropped in on friday about lunch and saw Katrina, the K class, but one of our classic yacht assn guys ( Rod ) said he saw Sapphire out. No, says I , it was Katrina. No said Rod .....sure it was Sapphire.

What John saw fri lunchtime ish
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4081_1.jpg
what Rod saw fri evening ish
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4101_2.jpg
Its a konspiracy I tell ya. Good trick, swappaboat.

and then there's those other old things.
Iorangi out

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4085_6.jpg
and Rainbow.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4082_7.jpg

and an interesting little counterpoint
Southern hemisphere state of the art design in 1899 V 2009
Rainbow at 50 ft and Alfa at twice that.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4087_5.jpg

If that is the big Alfa, the bulb is tungsten, not lead. They banned tungsten as ballast after Alfa and Wild Oats XI started a tech war.
The bulbs are supposed to have cost a mozza, and I am told the bulbs of both boats have some sort of locator in them in case they come off, they are worth so much they are worth a salvage operation.

[RFNK]

Great pictures JB - thanks!

Paul, what's the actual fin keel made of? I was looking at Ichi Ban on the hard at Newcastle Harbour on Thursday and wondering what material the keel could be to support that huge torpedo ballast. Rick

[Paul Fitzgerald]

The fin is usually steel. I guess high tension cast, but I am not sure.
They used carbon on some of the open 60 round the world boats, but there have been a lot of failures in the carbon fins.

[John B]

She's here to do the coastal classic and then the Sydney Hobart I gather. There's not much rocker in her.:cool:

This un is still here too.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4084_9.jpg

[John B]

A spell of spectacular spring weather has me frantically varnishing on Riada and work sprinting ahead on Rainbow and Iorangi.
Rainbow has her stick out, they're adding a foot to it for better throat/ throat crane clearance. (I reckon it should be 3 feet.) She'll be painted and go back in soon ,and get her mast when its ready.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4125_1.jpg

Iorangi is all ready for topsides repaint too.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4126_3.jpg

I zipped down from the marina for a bite of lunch and a break just in time to see Waitangi lifted out too.
Waitangi is the Logan snr from 1898( ish) Rainbow is the Logan bros from 1899. the revolution had arrived .
Iorangi ( Logan bros again)was built to beat Rainbow in 1901 and is even more modern in her sections .. more u shaped forward and flatter and firmer in the counter..

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4122_2.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4127_4.jpg

[John B]

hard work getting varnish on this am, fog for couple of hours and an extended wait to get dry. After lunch I popped around to the basin again.
Rawene is there now after her big refurbishment, including a new deck. 1909 Logan
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4135_3.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4136_4.jpg

Jessie Logan the 1880's Logan snr.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4137_5.jpg

And Tucana, an early 1900's boat ,modernised at some stage in her life with the addition of 6 or 8 inches freeboard and substantially restored a couple more times since the 1980's.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4138_6.jpg

[RFNK]

Thanks again JB, great boats you lot have over there! What though is that blue one? I'm sure it's the longest and skinniest yacht I've ever seen!

This is Ichi Ban - Sydney to Hobart racer in Newcastle Harbour. These skinny, canting keels really are amazing. Rick

http://i470.photobucket.com/albums/rr69/rfnk/IMG_0905.jpg

[John B]

The blue one.. the J class Endeavour ,refitting .

Iorangi moved over next to rainbow today.

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4144_2.jpg

http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd48/Waione_photos/misc%20classic%20yachts/IMG_4147_4.jpg

[Thad]

Thanks John!

[Raka025]

Hi John.

There is a chap building a Concordia Yawl, number 104, over your way, ever hear of it or how he is doing?

[John B]

Cheers Thad.

Rob , I tracked him down a couple of years ago after speaking to Margo, he's is Whangarei( a couple of hours north of Auckland). It sounded then that the boat was mostly ready. I've forgotten the details but he was pretty hard to contact.. no phone on , leave a message and he'd call back( which he did).
Nice guy as far as I could tell.. man on a private mission.
I've not heard that the boat has been launched .. no press or anything that I'm aware of.