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111 Brooke also held a small interest in her for a short time. Blincoe continued to crew for awhile on Palmyra after he sold her in 1990 to Kevin Purcell and Gordon Simmonds. Gordon Simmonds sold his interest in Palmyra to Davey Salmon. While Purcell continued to race the boat, Salmon used her primarily for cruising until he sold his interest to John Ormrod,a keen racer,in October of 2000. Ormrod and Purcell jumped on the opportunity to buy the very quick Pindaric in October of 2003, and sold Palmyra to David Mottram of Panmure shortly after. Mottram was reportedly in the process of refitting Palmyra,however she was spotted in early 2008 on the hard in Panmure looking quite neglected. A recent report is that she has been sold and is undergoing a refit. Chris Dickson’s Memories of Palmyra In my late teens / early twenties I was fortunate to be crewing on Alan Fletcher’s Palmyra and enjoyed some fantastic racing and great times just being afloat! Craig “Smokey” Robinson organised the crew for “Fletch” and was the main reason we had so much fun! A great crew, that included Joe Allen, Simon Daubney, Per Anderson, all of whom moved on to illustrious international careers. It was the late 70’s / early 80’s. Fletch owned a jeweller supply business and used to rock up for a Wednesday night race and casually pass a small satchel down the hatch for safe stowage. “Put them somewhere safe” Fletch would say. “Doesn’t matter if they get wet but there’s a few hundred grand of stones in there so best if we don’t lose it!” We were winter racing and hard running across the western side of Motuihe. The lazy sheet had slipped under the end of the pole and so it was a youthful Joey Allen out to the end of the pole to fix it. Joe had just made it to the end when the man in charge of the topping lift (me) watched it slip through the jammer until the pole end was about 3 feet under water and Joey with it, hanging on for his life doing 8 knots half under water. Every chance he got he would scream at us to wind him up! Man was he angry. Daubsy and I looked at each other and in unison declared: “No way.” Joe was just too angry to contemplate bringing back on board! We stood there and laughed our heads off as Joe in the middle of winter porpoised along the surface like an angry dolphin. It was a picnic day on Palmyra and this time returning from Motuihe on port tack, reaching up the harbour off Kohi at the end of a pleasant day trip. Per Anderson was relatively new to Auckland and was enjoying a stint of driving whilst the rest of us lounged around the cockpit, joking away and trying to finish the last 40 oz. of rum! With not a care in the world, I was on the leeward side, feet up and facing aft when Bean Rock slid past close to leeward. It took a few moments for my fuzzy thoughts to register that if we were on Port tack heading up the harbour from Motuihe, then Bean Rock close to leeward wasn’t quite right! (It should have been left to port) I remember pulling the tiller hard, we crash tacked, jib backed, bodies everywhere, girls screaming and rum and coke spilled everywhere but once we realized the big crunch of running aground on the reef hadn’t happened, we all burst out laughing whilst Per got friendly prods about the layout of Auckland Harbour. Chris Dickson, December 2008 Pamoana Sail No.240 Builder: John Lidgard Launched: 1962 Construction: Cold moulded triple diagonal kauri,glassed over Pamoana is a Maori word which translates to“get in touch with the sea.” Pamoana was one of the Patikis from the second batch produced at John Lidgard’s yard. Her first owner,Ernie Beer did the finishing work. Just before the start of the 1969 Balokovic Cup race, she was dismasted in a heavy northeaster. PamoanawassoldtoJohnandValFryaround1970. Johnbecameveryinvolved in the Stewart Owners Association and held the office of Secretary for some years. The Frys owned her and cruised the Hauraki Gulf for more than 20 years. She was sailed at least twice to the Three Kings, Pamoana on a family cruise Sue and Mark Blazey Collection