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128 Pauline Sail No.2086 Builder:Gordon Noakes Launched:1975 Construction: Cold moulded triple skin“tanalised”kahikatea, laminated kauri frames,keelson and transom,steel keel Gordon Noakes started planning to build his dream boat in the early 1960’s. He was a builder,and after having his own business went to work at AFFCO when the economy took a downturn. The AFFCO site was likeavillage,havinganassortmentoftradepeopleincludingitsowncooper. Noakes was friendly with the fellow who ran the cooperage. There were stacks of unused wood,from which Gordon was permitted to select the best. He chose kahikatea and took the wood home, stacked it in his back yard and let it dry out for a year. The timber was then transported to Hicksons to be tanalized in about 1962. The wood was then taken back home and,again,allowed to dry out again until he got out the saw and cut the sheets for the skins. By then he had built the frames,the keelson,stem and transom. The garage was extended to accommodate the build project. When the hull had been glassed and was ready to turn over,friends and neighbours lent a hand to roll the boat outside where it was righted and then rolled back into the garage. Pauline’s decks were finished in teak,with Noakes doing all the caulking himself. He fitted her with a reliable 2-cylinder Lister diesel engine. Noakes also fabricated the aluminium mast, transporting it on a home-made trailer towed by his faithfulAustin Maxi. After six years of construction, Pauline, named after the Noakes’ youngest daughter, was launched at Westhaven and moored her off KohimaramaraBeach. Paulinecameadriftfromhermooringduringastormfromthenorthwestandcametorestonthesoftsandbeach. She was lifted with a crane and re-floated,hardly suffering a scratch,and moved to a safer mooring in Okahu Bay. The Noakes family cruised in Pauline for 13 years, up to the Bay of Islands, over to the Mercury Islands and around the Hauraki Gulf. On a trip out to Great Barrier Island,one of her spreaders broke. In true Kiwi fashion,Noakes tapped a friend for a piece of wood and fashioned a temporary one which worked a treat. Jan Gorter purchased Pauline around 1988. Pauline was moored at Okahu Bay and Gorter used her for cruising. She was purchased from a deceased estate in 2004 by Brent and Rebecca Balemi who cruised her for about 2-1/2 years. LarryAmosandChrisMacGregor-Mcdonald,formerownersofPrion,purchasedPaulineearlyin2008andhavecommencedarestoration of her in their yard in Panmure. Pavo (ex Pavo, Pro-rata and Perchance) Sail No.169 Builders:Dave Mills & NormWashington Launched:1968 Construction:Cold moulded triple skin“tanalised”kahikatea,glassed over Pavo was built by her original owners Dave “Shortie” Mills and Norm Washington in Tauranga. Her cabin and decks are marine grade plywood, glassed over. Pavo sailed in the 1969 Auckland to Suva (Fiji) Race with Shortie as skipper, Owen McLeay as navigator and Allan Mollgard and Norm Washington as crew. AfterreturningtoNewZealandfromFiji,MillsandWashingtonputPavoon Pauline is lifted and relaunched Noakes Family Collection Pavo with a tuck and a No. 2, runs in a fresh southwesterly Stewart Association Collection Pauline washed up on Kohimaramara Beach Noakes Family Collection