First boating weekend of the season...

[RFNK]

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Great to have that!

[Hwyl]

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Isn’t there a sister-ship? Are they the same plans?

[Priscilla]

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[John B]

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Great to have that!

Very happy, legend says they were lost, in reality they were protected.

[John B]

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Isn’t there a sister-ship? Are they the same plans?

Near, Gareth, but I actually asked the boatbuilder if they were modified Riada moulds. They weren't, they were a whole new lofting.
Riada II was the boat I crewed on up to the islands back in 11 and 12. She's 5 years newer ,has a flatter run aft, a retrouse stern with inboard rudder and is a sloop. Very fast on a wave for 1980 , that flatter run picks her up and she surfs earlier than our boat.

Thanks for the photo mod P, no idea why my machine did that.

[John B]

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I thought I was done with boating for the season, such a poor year weather wise, but on our morning walk and visiting our friends by the water I noticed something.
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Quite nice weather.
The moored boat foreground is a "Lobsterboat" hull,apparently.

[John B]

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There was a job to be done, a recce required to find the mooring my son has hired for a few months.
So we launched the fiberglass.

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The tide seemed to be out but fortunately ( as if it almost been planned ) these hulls are flat as, bro.
As compensation for the wrong material , I wore my WB shirt and LPBC.

and, once we found the mooring, off on a tiki tour to look at a few wooden boats.

[John B]

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20 knot boat, about 20 minutes to Russell for fish and chips. Quite a busy wee spot it was too.
There were several woodies in the moorings there, I snapped 3.
Wild Duck is in private ownership now but for many years until 2020 she was involved in many Classic Yacht assn events , often a start boat or cruising race finish boat etc. Built 1937 as a fishing boat tender and later flying boat tender and general work .
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I like this little Seabird variant. She has a counter added and more recently I've noticed her for sale for not much. I get the feeling what you see is what you get and that is mostly a cosmetic refit , subject to an inspection of course... but she would make a lovely little cruising boat especially for this area.( Which is 10 miles to anywhere)
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[John B]

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Let's see if the forum will accept the third snap today.
This sedan is quite the honey , we see it out and about , its beautifully kept.
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[John B]

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5 minutes over to another bay to look at Regulus..
I've put photos of her up before but she intrigues me. Circa 1928 I think, William Hand design, a San Francisco boat which sailed out here and stayed, I imagine in the 2000's sometime. I was surprised to see her as I was told she was leaving NZ last year for the Pacific Islands.
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And then the next bay is Caprice ex Reimers ex Caprice. One of the very few 30 SQ M boats in the country.


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famous for striking a rock and sinking 30 or 40 ft down or so. She was described to me as sitting gently on her keel , slightly heeled with her sails set to the tide.....

And thats that for our one day Panga trip, the weather has closed in yet again with rain here now and gales due... over and out.

[Robbie 2]

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Looks like a great day out on the water.
Fine sunny weather in early winter was always good fishing, we found.
No tourists and alot of other boaties doing the family sports.....rugby,football,hockey,netball etc.
Therefore, less crowded and more peaceful.

[snow(Alan H)]

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Also in the photo the majestic Lady Crossley - details here

https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/02/03/lady-crossley-4/

[snow(Alan H)]

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Korawai - more details here https://waitematawoodys.com/2022/09/...wai-an-update/

[John B]

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Looks like a great day out on the water.
Fine sunny weather in early winter was always good fishing, we found.
No tourists and alot of other boaties doing the family sports.....rugby,football,hockey,netball etc.
Therefore, less crowded and more peaceful.

I had a rod and one lure with me Robbie, and tried a few spots without any luck. Dead calm , it was pretty nice although a bit of a chill when moving.
We motored up the coast from the island at the south of Paihia through Te Ti, in the Waitangi river and then out around the treaty grounds and looked at that shallow bay by the golf club. Around the Black rocks and back in the inlet to Rangitane.
So a few places we hadn't been before or cant go in the big boat. Interesting.

[John B]

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Also in the photo the majestic Lady Crossley - details here
https://waitematawoodys.com/2014/02/03/lady-crossley-4/

Thanks Alan.
At one time I owned a hot moulded mahogany dinghy ex Lady Crossley.