Boating New Zealand — January 2018

Burnnand and his father finished the 34-ton Waiomana and
fitted a secondhand 180hp 671GM diesel. The all up cost was
£5,500, a significant investment for the then 26-year old.
Launched in 1960, Burnnand chartered Waiomana out to Bert
Subritzky, whom he’d met through Lane. Subritzky Shipping used her
for five years, before Burnnand sold her to the Manapouri-Doubtful
Sound Tourist Company for another tidy profit.
In 1961 he married Sonnia (nee Fistonich) and they lived with
Burnnand’s parents for three years while the family home was
being built on the Panmure River section, where the couple still
reside to this day.
After 10 years with Lanes, Burnnard worked for Subritzky
Shipping as an engineer, before in 1967, joining Lees Marine as a
salesman under the late Rex Henry. The Lees brothers – the late
Punch, Roly and Ted – owned a successful Ford dealership, which
they’d expanded into supplying Ford engines for industrial usage.