 Van Diemen 3
Van Diemen 3 is a 66 foot Herreshoff/Muir 66 design built by Blair Boats in 2006 . Van Diemen is cold molded, with a carbon/balsa deck, and carbon rig. This boat has surpassed all expectations as a racer and cruiser, finishing first at 2008 Hamilton Island Race Week, third HIRW 2018. |
Loxleigh
Loxleigh,is a 50' Bill Upfold Elite design. A composite build of plywood, and fibreglass. Loxleigh was launched at Waipapa Landing 2018. 
Hamilton Island Race Week 2018
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Razzel
DESIGN Grainger, Alfresco
LOA 11 meters
BEAM 7 meters
DRAFT (boards up) 500 meters (boards down) 2 meters
RAZZEL is Dave’s personal boat. Launched in 2001 we have enjoyed racing and cruising her
Razzel has proved to be an excellent family boat. She is easy to sail, roomy, safe cockpit and easy access for the young and more mature. Plenty of room for the toys- we took 2 bikes, a 3.1 meter dingy with 15 hp outboard, and two kayaks to the South Island. We have enjoyed fast safe passages.
Razzel is a competitive race boat. She has repeatedly finished in the first 15 boats in the coastal Classic. She is avidly raced in the local club calendar and won the winter series 2009.
LOA 11 meters
BEAM 7 meters
DRAFT (boards up) 500 meters (boards down) 2 meters
RAZZEL is Dave’s personal boat. Launched in 2001 we have enjoyed racing and cruising her
Razzel has proved to be an excellent family boat. She is easy to sail, roomy, safe cockpit and easy access for the young and more mature. Plenty of room for the toys- we took 2 bikes, a 3.1 meter dingy with 15 hp outboard, and two kayaks to the South Island. We have enjoyed fast safe passages.
Razzel is a competitive race boat. She has repeatedly finished in the first 15 boats in the coastal Classic. She is avidly raced in the local club calendar and won the winter series 2009.
MAX
DESIGN: Marsh 61’
LOA: 60 ‘
BEAM: 16’
DRAFT: 8’ 6”
CONSTRUCTION: Composite durakore
DISPLACEMENT: 9,979 kg
BALLAST: 4,990 kg
Max has a duracore hull. Foam cored bulkheads and deck structure.
LOA: 60 ‘
BEAM: 16’
DRAFT: 8’ 6”
CONSTRUCTION: Composite durakore
DISPLACEMENT: 9,979 kg
BALLAST: 4,990 kg
Max has a duracore hull. Foam cored bulkheads and deck structure.
Shanachie
DESIGN: Whiting 47’
LOA: 47’
BEAM: 9’ 6”
DRAFT: 6’
CONSTRUCTION: Cold Moulded Alaskan Cedar
Teak decks
After 20 years Dave remodelled Shanachie’s stern for the original owners, adding on 3’ to incude a scoop.
Built in California Schanachie has cruised extensively. Her home port is now Opua in the Bay of Islands.
LOA: 47’
BEAM: 9’ 6”
DRAFT: 6’
CONSTRUCTION: Cold Moulded Alaskan Cedar
Teak decks
After 20 years Dave remodelled Shanachie’s stern for the original owners, adding on 3’ to incude a scoop.
Built in California Schanachie has cruised extensively. Her home port is now Opua in the Bay of Islands.
Te Ariki Nui
DESIGN: Bob Salthouse
LOA: 50’
BEAM: 15’
DRAFT: 5’
CONSTRUCTION: Cold moulded kauri, Composite ply foam ply, Deck and superstructure
Built when Dave Blair was foreman at Robertson Bros.
LOA: 50’
BEAM: 15’
DRAFT: 5’
CONSTRUCTION: Cold moulded kauri, Composite ply foam ply, Deck and superstructure
Built when Dave Blair was foreman at Robertson Bros.
Lark
DESIGN: Falmouth Quay Punt - Lines taken from ‘Curlew’, Built 1860
LOA: 38’ 8”
LOD: 28’ 2”
BEAM: 9’ 2”
DRAFT: 6’ 2”
DISPLACEMENT: 22000 LBS
WORKING SAIL AREA: 635 SQ FT
CONSTRUCTION: Cold molded kauri, Mahogany frames, Teak decks, Fir spars
Featured in ‘Wooden Boat’ October 1994 #120
Lark has sailed to California and back and presently lays in her home port of the Mahurangi, near Warkworth.
‘Lark’ was a challenging project, as she was to be a sister ship to the well known ‘Curlew’. The owners had taken a set of line drawings off ‘Curlew’ when their cruising paths crossed some years before.
Building a dream for such interesting people was a daunting and an intensely rewarding challenge. The project encompassed lofting the boat to building the spars and patterns for the 40 bronze fittings.
Express 37
DESIGN: Carl Schimacher
LOA: 37’ 1”
BEAM: 11’ 6”
DRAFT: 7’ 3”
CONSTRUCTION: Composite fibreglass,balsa
BUILDERS: Alsburg Bros Boatwork
Dave Blair did the tooling for the moulds for this production boat. The factory could produce one boat every 14 working days. The class was successful and still race in San Francisco Bay.
