This collection is from an album cut up and each image sold separately over time by a second-hand shop in Paraparaumu. Some images are now owned by Gavin Pasoce, some by Harold Kidd. They are seperated below.

The album belonged to a man named Fowke - likely to be E. H. Fowke, who was a member of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club during the 1930s. He crewed on board the Queen Charlotte, and was perhaps owner or part owner of Miru.

He was a member of the "Frolics", a social group of younger members active in the EBYMBC and RPNYC during the 1930s.

The images of Miru show her converted from a half-rater to a keeler - re-shaped aft (counter perhaps docked?), a couple of planks added, cuddy cabin built, and a big lump of iron or lead for the keel. This work was one before WWI.

Gavin Pascoe's collection:

Miru

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...and on the other board

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Miru careened ready for a scrub

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On the hard

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Queen Charlotte

The reverse of this image is dated 1937 and lists the crew:

Bothamley, Fowke, Boyce, Hartnett, Carpenter, Naylor, McIntosh, Broberg

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Crew at work on deck and aloft on Queen Charlotte

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Queen Charlotte supposedly the last boat to have tied up at this jetty at Kaiwharawhara

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Queen Charlotte Blackwood Bay

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...and Ruakaka Bay

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Queen Charlotte with Volante in the foreground at Clyde Quay

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One of the "Frolics" bit of fun - a papier-mache whale makes an appearance at Clyde Quay for the RPNYC open day 1937. It was built over a dinghy powered by an outboard

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Culprits: Fowke and Rog Parker

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Wairere II

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RPNYC picnic 1933

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View from Somes Island - Nereides and Queen Charlotte

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View from Ward Island

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Fowke and skipper with a penguin on Ward island

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Clyde Quay

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Rona sailing out of Clyde Quay

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Wairere

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Te Ruru Cup

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Harold Kidd's collection:

Queen Charlotte

1934 RPNYC picnic