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Bruce Hall
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 08:57 pm: | 
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Will be spending the month of March touring your beautiful country by campervan.Would appreciate hearing from Kiwi's with an interest in old marine and farm engines and old wood boats- where can I find 'em???? |
andrew
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 11:34 pm: |
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Bruce,
Maybe you can be our roving reporter and post a weekly report of your travels....
Have a great trip.
Regards,
Andrew |
Bruce
| | Posted on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 12:58 am: |
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I'll be that ROVER Andrew- leave the lights on and the"Window" open. Bruce |
Robert Kay
| | Posted on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 03:35 pm: |
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Good morning Bruce
I live in NZ, top of the South Island in a place called Nelson. Probably a little biased but Nelson with its National Parks and coastlines is one of the nicest places in NZ.
The annual 'Classic & Antique Boat Show' is being held at Lake Rotoiti in Nelson Lakes on 1/2 March 03. This will be the forth year and attracts around 150 boats of all kinds including steam, inboard and sail. Some are very old. Have a look at nzclassicboats.com.
Feel free to email me and I will give you our contacts in Nelson. |
andrew
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 09:34 am: |
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Bruce just sent in an email from his trip:
Quote:Andrew,
Just had a most enjoyable afternoon aboard a 200 Ft. restored Lake Steamer here at Queenstown, South Island NZ. Twin engine/screw built 1912-500 HP per TRIPLE expansion double acting engines-SPECTACULAR breathing artifact of history. No OME in sight-did find an English farm motor belted to a shearing shed along the way however.
BRuce Hall
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Basil Rathbone
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 08:39 pm: |
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Bruce...I dont think the average Kiwi would like to hear the lady of the lake.. TSS Earnslaw being refered to as restored... she is in as new condition apart from the enclosed top deck she has never been restored but has maintained a constant service since 1912. Were you invited into the Engine room... did you get any pics? I was amazed that she has locomotive boilers albeit enormous twin furnaced loco boilers I expected a pair of Scotch boilers. The purity of the water is the reason for her longivity... no hot well or conventional condenser as one would expect in a conventional marine instalation. As an aside there is a naptha launch on Lake Taupo.. seems like a suicide boat to me boiling naptha to use the highly explosive vapour as steam in a 3 cylinder engine...
I have an extensive collection of Earnslaw pics if anyone wants to see them or I could post them here |
Richard Day
| | Posted on Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 09:59 pm: |
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Please have at it Basil. The more the better. |
andrew
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 11:43 am: |
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These pictures have arrived from Trevor Watson:
Quote:Hi Andrew,
I have attached some pics of the Earnslaw in NZ that you may wish to publish.
Trevor
is that Bruce in the white coveralls with the blissfull smile...?
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Richard Day
| | Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 06:47 pm: |
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Thanks Basil. Beautiful ship. |
Sydney Greenstreet
| | Posted on Monday, March 24, 2003 - 12:55 am: |
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The chap in the white overalls is Nigel.. the chief engineer. I dont know why he has such a blissful smile...he had just finished trying to convince me to start the next day so he could have a holiday. Marine engineers with a steam certification are getting hard to find... |
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