Romany

Owner: R. Ward

Area: New Zealand

Hull

Open Launch. Construction: Single skin kauri with hardwood ribs keel and stem.
Hull designed by A. Baxter in Buil
Built by Alec Baxter at Whangarei
Fit out by Russell Ward at Auckland
LOA: 19' 0", LWL: 18' 6", Beam: 5' 0", Draft: 2' 3", Displacement: 0 lbs.
Transom stern (wineglass form) with outboard rudder tiller steering, straight stem. Ssingle cockpit three thwarts, fitted forward pram hood on wooden bows. Fitted mast with aux/ steadying sail and aft jackstaff

Boiler

Stuart Turner VFT with wet leg Built 1993 by McKenzie and Ridley at Penrose Auckland
Fuel: Coal, Pressure: 100 psi,
Xhead driven fp & ap. Brown Bros. Injector, Kcond. Stuart Turner design updated to NZ code. Teak lagged, Windermere kettle fitted, 35 gallon feedwater reserve

Engine

Single. 3" X 4"
Built by G. Wilkinson
Design: Bolton style by: Winters, Sydney
sv valve. SLRG valve gear.
Purchased by owner as semi finished set of parts. Fitted for a season to owner's previous steamer Gypsy and then unused. Now needing rebuild or replacement.

Propeller

18" X 25"

History

Designed and built for his own use by Alec Baxter a traditional commercial boatbuilder of Whangarei NZ in 1994. Sadly he died before completion and I bought the almost finished hull from the family. She was finished in 1996.

Last Modified: 2014.04.01.