Lake Rotoiti Classic & Wooden Boat Association.
North Island, New Zealand.
New and restored wooden boats on Rotoiti.
The ever increasing interest of wooden boats on
Rotoiti is resulting in new
boats regularly arriving on our lake. This page will try to give preview
and
launching photos and some details when available.
"Diana" Owner: Bob Smith, Length 8.2m.
1936 Carvel built Vintage Launch.
Diana has had a major refurbish and was relaunched in September 2008.
The before and after views are shown here
If anyone can fill in the history or has information about "Diana" please contact the webmaster.
"Little
Heron" 1919
Kauri Launch owned by Mark Farrant was launched onto Lake Rotoiti on the 13th
September 2008. She is a dd kauri launch built by Coulthard Bros on the Manukau
for a Mr Claude Billings, a farmer from Waitakaruru. Originally, she was built
as a launch but was converted to sail by her second owner and spent most of her
life in this configuration. Sixteen years of that as a commercial fishing boat
out of Whangamata.
The sailing gear and rig were removed in 2000 and she has been a launch ever
since.
She was found on Trademe, having been restored after she
had taken on some water while
at her mooring in little Shoal Bay when the
automatic bilge pump went off for a time, requiring some reconditioning to her
inboard diesel engine.
She has tiller steering, a 45hp Perkins diesel and weighs in at 3.1 tons.
She performs very well in rough water thanks to still carrying the ballast from
her yachting days.
"Ellen" (left) and "Princess" (right) were officially launched on
18-11-06 onto Lake Rotoiti.
"Ellen" Owners: Helen and Grant Wallace. Length: 8 metres. She was built up from a "plug" taken off an old abandoned hull found in Kopu. She is a classic Logan hull of strip plank cedar 8 metres long. "Ellen" is powered by a 29 HP diesel with standard straight drive.
"Princess" Owner and
builder: Allan Clark. Length: 6.9 metres. Beam: 1.85 metres. Draft: 550 mm
She is built mainly with Fijian
Kauri and plywood. The hull
being two layers of diagonal plywood strips over stringers
and frames then fibre glassed. She was painted
by Gloss Boats Ltd at Westhaven.
The engine is a 30 hp Kubota diesel with
a twindisk marine gearbox supplied by Chris Moon Engines Ltd of Avondale.
"Elva" Owners: Henry
& Jocelyn Van der Heyden,
Built: 1908, Length:9.8m.
Kauri planked displacement launch, formerly known as "Ngati Maru", she was
restored by Tony Mitchell at Otaramarae and was relaunched on December 16th 2006
