rotrax
Well-Known Member
Just finished the annual stint in Evans Bay Boatyard. Haul out, use of pressure washer, ladders and scaffold stands, 10 days in the cradle, relaunch, $340 NZ Dollars. At todays exchange rate £175! We like it here.
In the yard while we were working were 14 wooden boats, nine yachts, five motorboats.
Several of the yachts are approaching 100 years old and a few were actually built in Evans Bay, the main centre for Wellington shipbuilding in wood.
High skill levels abound, several shipwrights taking on the more specialised jobs that were beyond what the owners could, or wanted to do.
A few weeks ago a Le Houquet yacht, Marengi, came second in the cruising class race, finishing behind a modern GRP 40 foot cruiser racer. Marengi was built in 1907 by a Channel Islander - Jersey, IIRC - Thomas Le Houquet, as a gaff rigged vessel. Built of Kauri timber, it has survived very well.
The current owner sails single handed much of the time and converted it to Bermudan rig for easier handling. Marengi is still strutting her stuff 112 years later.
Some of you guys would love it here.
In the yard while we were working were 14 wooden boats, nine yachts, five motorboats.
Several of the yachts are approaching 100 years old and a few were actually built in Evans Bay, the main centre for Wellington shipbuilding in wood.
High skill levels abound, several shipwrights taking on the more specialised jobs that were beyond what the owners could, or wanted to do.
A few weeks ago a Le Houquet yacht, Marengi, came second in the cruising class race, finishing behind a modern GRP 40 foot cruiser racer. Marengi was built in 1907 by a Channel Islander - Jersey, IIRC - Thomas Le Houquet, as a gaff rigged vessel. Built of Kauri timber, it has survived very well.
The current owner sails single handed much of the time and converted it to Bermudan rig for easier handling. Marengi is still strutting her stuff 112 years later.
Some of you guys would love it here.
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