Ian's Boats

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Tikao Bay B&B
43 Tikao Bay Road
R D 2
AKAROA

Tel/Fax 03-304 5818
Email tikaobandb@gmail.com

We have a collection of small boats at Tikao. Several of them are wooden craft that I have restored in some way or another.

Ian

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This is my favourite -- Dipper. She is a wooden hulled single-master, with a fair clip of speed. She is the only yacht ever to have won the Tikao Bay Boat Race.

                       

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This one is named The Emily Boat, after our daughter. It is made of kauri, and often blows away on nor'west days. That's me in the boat showing my mate Russell how a real sailor does it. He's from Wellington - what would he know?! 
 
 
Here's Russell and our daughter Emily attempting to launch the The Emily Boat -- oh the humanity!
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We have two dingies. This is yer bog standard aluminium variety, with a 5hp Suzuki motor that has been known to try my patience once or twice!
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Here's our son James, in a restored clinker dingy named Erne (Gaelic for 'sea eagle'). The hull is made of kauri also.
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