Old pics

[Black Panther 1,767]

I'm running out of reading material as i wait for the library to re open.   So I dug out an old favourite.  It seems I was using photos of the world's best cav 32 as bookmarks last time I read it.

[Fogg 427]

Great book!

[darkside 69]

Not quite that old but 25 years ago today leaving GH for Tonga for the first time on my own boat.

[Black Panther 1,767]

This thread has potential.  Photos of boats you used to own?

[Island Time 1,294]

[Ex Machina 390]

48 minutes ago, darkside said:

Not quite that old but 25 years ago today leaving GH for Tonga for the first time on my own boat.

That boat is now moored out front of our Bach at taurikura . Guy who owns it lives on a tiny island right where boat is moored 

[Deep Purple 530]

NZ Moth I built when i was 13, Pelin Caribou 15 I built when i was 17 and Stratus 747 I built when i was 21. Just listed on trademe this week coincidently 47, 43 and 39 old enough?

 

[Black Panther 1,767]

2 hours ago, 44forty said:

That boat is now moored out front of our Bach at taurikura . Guy who owns it lives on a tiny island right where boat is moored 

And his sister who lives nearby was married to the guy who owned Petticoats for about a million years.

[Ex Machina 390]

2 hours ago, Black Panther said:

And his sister who lives nearby was married to the guy who owned Petticoats for about a million years.

I think he is a partner in Phad now ? 

[Ex Machina 390]

5 hours ago, Island Time said:

I’m dying to know what your tow vehicle was for that beast ! 

[GregW 28]

With the mast up can't be going far. Probably a tractor.

[MuzzaB 14]

My first time solo on a Laser.  I weighed about two feathers at the time and was 11 or 12 years old.  I persuaded one of my father's friends to let me borrow his near-new Laser (check out that low sail number).  Mid '70s Oakura Bay, Northland.

 

[MuzzaB 14]

Maybe this one doesn't qualify but it is interesting.  Erehwon circa 1949.  My father was regular racing crew on Erewhon but took this photo from Inyala on which he cruised regularly (see the book "A Modern Sea Beggar" by Temple Utley available to read online).

 

[ex TL systems 63]

A few of the many multis I have had over the last 40 years 

[Ex Machina 390]

3 hours ago, MuzzaB said:

My first time solo on a Laser.  I weighed about two feathers at the time and was 11 or 12 years old.  I persuaded one of my father's friends to let me borrow his near-new Laser (check out that low sail number).  Mid '70s Oakura Bay, Northland.

 

That’s hard case and a cool pic . I would’ve been across the other side at puriri bay but in a micron . sh*t whangaruru was a cool place in the 70s and 80s especially when Seabee air dropped bread and milk at bland bay 

[Island Time 1,294]

10 hours ago, 44forty said:

I’m dying to know what your tow vehicle was for that beast ! 

This..

[Vorpal Blade 89]

Won a Nationals in this.

[Ex Machina 390]

24 minutes ago, Island Time said:

This..

Ah nice ! I had one until recently ....sold it to buy my new boat and In keeping with this thread I bought the patrol off the guy who now owns phad 

[MuzzaB 14]

1 hour ago, 44forty said:

That’s hard case and a cool pic . I would’ve been across the other side at puriri bay but in a micron . sh*t whangaruru was a cool place in the 70s and 80s especially when Seabee air dropped bread and milk at bland bay 

I recall SeaBee Air coming onto the beach at Oakura at least once, but that required zero swell.  I used to love exploring up Whangaruru.

But as you mentioned SeaBee Air, here is a one of those wonderful Grummans having just dropped Dad off to join the boat at Otehei Bay, Urupukapuka, 1979-80.

 

[Vorpal Blade 89]

Dire Straits, last seen in Brittany.