Kailua
Designer: Bob Salthouse
Builder: Bob Salthouse
First Owner:
Type: 34ft traditional displacement Sedan launch
LOA: 33’11” (10.36m) Beam: 10’11” (3.35m) Draft: 3”1” (0.95m)
Launched: 1961 Owner: Andrew Barnes & Charlotte Lockhart
Berths: 4 Fuel and Water Tanks: 300l each
Engine: Hino W06E HP 160hp at 3000rpm - Early 90’s, rebuilt 2008
Hull Colour: White with black and grey boot top and black bottom paint
Deck/Cabin Colour: White with varnished teak coamings
Hull Construction:
The hull is from two skins of heart kauri planking, outer skin fore and aft with diagonal inner skin with copper rivets. The plank seams are cotton caulked and putty stopped. Planking fastened with copper nail/rivets to stringers and skin to skin. Structure consists of plywood bulkheads, sawn timber floors and frames, fore and aft kelson, stringers and gunnels. All structural members with bronze fastenings.
Construction Deck:
Plywood decks onto timber structure with fibre glass sheath to outside. Solid teak coamings fastened to deck inhale.