New Zealand launch celebrates its 100 birthday

[DandV]

As a break from sanding and revarnishing some woodwork in our house we had oysters and chips in our local waterside pub.

Moored outside was an obviously just repainted one of our classic launches.

Ngaio 38 ft designed and built by Arch Logan, a son of the designer and builder of Waitangi.

And launched this day exactly 100 years ago. We were invited onboard to inspect and help dress the boat with bunting.

[Jen-in-Wellies]

4 hours ago, DandV said:

we had oysters and chips in our local waterside pub.

Stop it. Stop it! Pub, going out. All things we still can't do.

 

4 hours ago, DandV said:

We were invited onboard

Aarrgh! Meeting people and inside a cabin too! Please stop tormenting us. Just 'cause you had a non-clown government.

 

Lovely boat though.

[Tonka]

2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

Stop it. Stop it! Pub, going out. All things we still can't do.

 

Aarrgh! Meeting people and inside a cabin too! Please stop tormenting us. Just 'cause you had a non-clown government.

 

Lovely boat though.

They were going to the pub not that long ago on the Isle of Man. Look at the mess it is in now with Covid

[ditchcrawler]

8 hours ago, DandV said:

As a break from sanding and revarnishing some woodwork in our house we had oysters and chips in our local waterside pub.

Moored outside was an obviously just repainted one of our classic launches.

Ngaio 38 ft designed and built by Arch Logan, a son of the designer and builder of Waitangi.

And launched this day exactly 100 years ago. We were invited onboard to inspect and help dress the boat with bunting.

I could be tempted to give up Narrowboating for that

[Dangereaux]

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

[mrsmelly]

3 minutes ago, Dangereaux said:

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

Well to be fair its nice to see the occasional real boat instead of just floating skips.

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Dangereaux said:

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

 

Just shows how names can be deceptive, heck somebody might even believe you are dangerous.

 

It is however a fine looking vessel, regardless of whether it would float in a shallow muddy ditch or not.

 

[ditchcrawler]

38 minutes ago, Dangereaux said:

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

Its a good job someone posts to this forum now and again or it would be dead boring 

[Derek R.]

2 hours ago, Dangereaux said:

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

 

And the choice is your to read - or not.

[TheBiscuits]

2 hours ago, Dangereaux said:

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

 

I thought this was a world forum - the hint is in the name.....

[magpie patrick]

14 hours ago, DandV said:

As a break from sanding and revarnishing some woodwork in our house we had oysters and chips in our local waterside pub.

Moored outside was an obviously just repainted one of our classic launches.

Ngaio 38 ft designed and built by Arch Logan, a son of the designer and builder of Waitangi.

And launched this day exactly 100 years ago. We were invited onboard to inspect and help dress the boat with bunting.

 

3 hours ago, Dangereaux said:

I thought this was a canal forum - the hint is in the name.....

 Plenty of canals it would fit on, just not many British ones 

 

It looks like it's on an inlet somewhere given the bridge in the background, @DandV, where is it? 

[DandV]

1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:

 

 Plenty of canals it would fit on, just not many British ones 

 

It looks like it's on an inlet somewhere given the bridge in the background, @DandV, where is it? 

 A mould was taken of a slightly smaller launch of the same vintage and designer. From this mould a number of fibre glass replicas were made.

One was shipped to Ireland and after cruising coasts and canals there crossed the Irish Sea, to Liverpool before crossing the UK on the Leads and Liverpool canal, for more canal coast and river cruising there. From thence it crossed the channel for more inland and coastal cruising as far as the Black Sea and Eastern Med.

The bridge in the background was made in Britain, and assembled to become the initial part of the Auckland Harbour Bridge. Later two, two lane box girder structures were made in Japan to be cantilevered off the original pylons. "The Nippon Clipons" 

 

[Guest]

18 minutes ago, DandV said:

The bridge in the background was made in Britain, and assembled to become the initial part of the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

 

 

Built by Dorman Long and Cleveland Bridge, from my neck of the wood,  North East England.

Edited March 21, 2021 by The Happy Nomad

[DandV]

11 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:

 

Built by Dorman Long and Cleveland Bridge, from my neck of the wood,  North East England.

The original structure is still going strong but the clip ons have needed extensive strengthening.

Although, there was a first for the bridge last year when the original structure had to be closed for some days for repairs when a very rouge gust of wind toppled a container truck into a vertical strut mangling it, the truck carried on. Designing and fabricating a new strut, out of materials in the country, and then correctly loading the bridge to get in place, was a complex job.