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Kupe is for sale!
This character workboat with attitude and history is in mint condition and now ready for a new owner. She’s the Perfect yacht club support vessel, for mark-laying, race escort and towing.
All you need to know about Kupe…
- 5.5m (18’) diesel launch (three-cylinder Lister Petter LPW3)
- Part of the Classic Yacht Charitable Trust fleet
- Currently berthed at Auckland’s Voyager National Maritime Museum
- Built in 1962 by the then Auckland Harbour Board (AHB) workshops, “for cartography and routine sounding”
- Featured in the construction of the Auckland Harbour Bridge and in the development and operation of the Westhaven Marina.
- Underwent a complete restoration in 2007, by Wooden Boat Workshop cabinet maker Simon Ventura. In a review of that restoration, Boating New Zealand magazine said: “The result of Ventura’s restoration is a launch better finished than when she was new… there’s no denying that Kupe is as pretty and jaunty a launch as you’ll find anywhere”
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Hull type: |
Wooden |
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Length: |
5.50 Metres (18.04 Feet) |
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Year: |
1962 |
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Engine: |
30 HP, Inboard |
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Engine year: |
2007 |
- Built to marine survey
- Survey certification can be resurrected
- Sound hull and decks, no rot, carries no bilge water
- New Altex antifouling, January 2016
- Prop Speed and new anodes, January 2016
- Above-water paintwork in excellent condition
- Full waterproof cockpit cover
- Fitted with mooring bollards & towing post
- VHF radio
- Anchor, chain and warp
- Spare rope
- Navigation lights
- Electric bilge pump
- Engine rev counter
- Well fendered
- Engine professionally rebuilt in 2007
- Low engine hours
- Electric start
- Shaft drive, 3-bladed propeller
- Cable Steering
- Cruising speed 7 knots
- Maximum speed 9 knots
- Ideal vessel for harbour/river/sheltered water use
- If survey certification reinstated, ideal boat for commercial marine activities
- Vessel ready to go for new owner
