Build Date
Boat Builder
George Brassell
Length
47 Feet
Beam
16 Feet
Everything We Know About Miss Akaroa
After George Brassell sold his first boat build, the Tawera he purchased a boat called the Orari to do charters around Akaroa but this boat provide to not be ideal so he then built the Miss Akaroa. He built her over the course of 12 months in his backyard in Akaroa. At 47ft Miss Akaroa was a comfortable passenger boat that could carry 80 people. He fitted her with a diesel engine from the Tawera.
Brassell was a sailer, fisherman and charter provider who had won the Cornwall Cup and the Sanders Cup yacht races. As well as this he was awarded the Royal Humane Society’s gold medal for gallantry for rescuing the crew of the yacht Astral that had been competing in the Centennial Yacht race between Wellington and Lyttleton.
Later Miss Akaroa would be owned by by a syndicate in Doubtful Sound where she was used as a pleasure launch. Robert Webber is also said to have owned her for a time.
References
To research Miss Akaroa we used the Deep Cove Outdoor Education Trust page on George Brassell.
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