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Bagnall had no intention of leaving his shed anytime
soon, but recent events forced his hand. he shed sits
on leasehold land and in 2017 its owner put the land up
for sale.
Bagnall investigated buying it, but North Shore
waterfront land is worth a tidy sum. During the due diligence
phase the Council told him the land was zoned solely for
marine-related businesses and certainly not for apartments.
hat information turned out to be incorrect – a
property developer bought the land and advised Bagnall
the shed would be removed to make way for a multi-level
apartment block.
Bagnall’s now on a month-to-month basis, so sometime
in the next 12 to 18 months one of the last of the old time,
waterfront boatyards will disappear forever. I’ll leave it to
the reader to decide if that’s progress or a loss of heritage.
Of more importance to owners of timber boats, there’ll
be one less trained wooden boatbuilder to keep their pride
and joy proud and joyful.Sadder still is that Bagnall’s hard-won skills won’t be
passed onto the next generation. While Bagnall trained
his elder son Jason as a boatbuilder and the pair worked
together for eight years, it’s diicult inding youngsters
interested in becoming boatbuilders.
“It would be nice to show them [youngsters] the old
skills, caulking, planking and the like, but they just don’t
want to know. he couple I’ve tried weren’t interested and
always had Friday-itis.”
Bagnall’s future is far more rosy. When the shed goes
he and heresa are moving to the Bay of Islands, where he
intends to do a lot more ishing and maybe just enough
boatbuilding to keep his hand in.
Despite the loss to Auckland timber boat owners, no
one can begrudge Geofrey and heresa Bagnall a long,
happy retirement. BNZcrossword
Puzzle no.247
Across
- _____ Islands – NZ’s northernmost islands
located about 900 km northeast of North Island
(8) - Code word for letter P in marine radio
communication (4) - Fuel used in some boats (6)
- Registers to take part in sailing regatta (6)
- ____-bodied seaman – trained sailor in
merchant navy (4) - Unsuccessful competitors in regatta, eg (4-4)
- Curling peak of wave (5)
- At right angles to length of boat (5)
- Accompanied or guided another vessel (8)
- ____ on water – what leaky boat did! (4)
- Fishes by trailing baited line behind moving
boat (6) - _____ over – capsized (6)
- The ____ – literary expression for ocean (4)
- Veteran sailor and rower Chay Blyth is one (8)
Down
- Item of emergency equipment for boaties (5)
- Edible marine bivalve shellfish (7)
- Low triangular area where river divides before
entering sea (5) - Groups of people working on vessels (5)
- First name of NZ sailor in photo (5)
- Small ferocious South American river fish (7)
- Sea around 1 Across was declared marine _____
in 1990 (7) - _____ down – secures hatches and loose
objects on board boat (7) - Lowest deck on ship (5)
- Puts new boat through its paces (5)
- Quick look at friend’s new boat, maybe? (5)
- Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” is one about a
sea captain (5)
LIGHTER PROOF
O UW I E T R
RAD I O DUNNAGE
A GEIGE
NEEDLES NAOM I
OA S N
BANKS UNR I G
A TLA
L I NER TRACTOR
L UO I LO
AGROUND DR I L L
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