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There are a few Newcastles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coals_to_NewcastleComment
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There are a few Newcastles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coals_to_Newcastle
I know.....Comment
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That's actually what did happen. The coal seams were very apparent in the cliffs of our Newcastle. You know, there's coal 'ere, we'll hafta call it Newcastle.
Like 'New South Wales' - good grief!Rick
Lean and nosey like a ferretComment
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Well, they were south & they hadn't seen those cetaceans before?"If it ain't broke, you're not trying." - Red GreenComment
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Busy day in new wetland, it didn't rain so a visit to one of the boat kids we've known since he was 5.
Just arrived in from Indonesia with a stop at png.
Traded a pile of fishing gear for..
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It's the real thing. A hollowed out log.Comment
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Interesting day yesterday, quick trip over to Opua to help my friend put his boat back in the water and get his forestay back on. He had to take it off for the travel lift and it doesn't have a bottlescrew. Boing....
Geez, wrong pic..try again.( once a photo has been uploaded you can't get rid of it. It's a Californian quail making a racket outside the house just now)
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A balsa core boat, we've cruised about 6 or 8000 miles beside them since 17, a very good cruiser. Went into some tricky places and did some memorable things. I followed them out of Ogea, very shallow and they cut lines in the sand as we left there. Being 6 or so inches shallower we just slipped on out without touching.
The other very memorable place and sail with Matia was leaving Oneata in the Southern Lau group at 10 pm. Pitch black and some rain, 20 knots right behind, we did 7 and 8 knots across the lagoon and threaded the reef pass and coral heads by instruments and the shine of the breaking waves. It took a lot of trust and confidence in our equipment and methods going blind like that ,but we had a plan and it worked out perfectly. And it was a thrill.
And the reason, it allowed us to make the next destinations tricky entrance in daylight and with sun in the right place.Attached FilesLast edited by John B; 12-06-2021, 07:28 PM.Comment
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Went on to another area to see an old friend. He still owns Aorere, an 1892 Logan. Yet another rolling restoration boat, unrestored in the modern sense. All original hull, possibly a new deck and certainly a new cabin , she was a flush decker originally.
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She's interesting because she's a Logan senior, someone who built in the old style near plank on edge. His sons, the Logan brothers were also building their first boats in 92 but they were modern with more developed bilges and cut away somewhat in the forefoot.
Terry took her to Tonga and back in the 80s, a trip unsuited to the type of vessel, pretty hairy by the sounds of it.Last edited by John B; 12-06-2021, 07:16 PM.Comment
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She was always one the most elegant of the NZ classics in all the historical photos I felt. Like nearly all of them they've had different deck structures and rigs over the century plus they've been around. She has a cruising gaff rig in her now but still gets along nicely.Comment
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Also in the haulout area was Alma G.
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Possibly one of this Country's most famous game fishing launches. 1922 Zane Grey and all that.
She was a sedan top originally and has had her bow raised, that would be her original sheerline aft.
Hard working boat.Comment
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And one more from that location
Pretty interesting I think.
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This is a tourist attraction based on an old sugar barge called the tui.
But the spars are from the wreck of Endeavour II or the (aka)Monte Cristo lost off Northland in the.... 70s?. I seem to recall a forum member was crew in her earlier life , so he would have climbed over them. Now who was that...was it Ron?
Anyway, there's a scale of the thing link to the WBF for you.
When originally rigged as the Kelly Tarlton Elingamite treasure museum. I expect that as the years have gone by the rest of the rig has decayed and has been removed.
tui_600.jpgLast edited by John B; 12-08-2021, 03:18 PM.Comment
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