boats Archives – Lord Howe Island Signal https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/tag/boats/ Lord Howe Island's independent online newspaper Sun, 19 May 2024 23:40:55 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-LHI-Signal-Favicon-3-800-32x32.png boats Archives – Lord Howe Island Signal https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/tag/boats/ 32 32 Lulawai https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/lulawai-lord-howe/ https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/lulawai-lord-howe/#respond Tue, 14 May 2024 05:48:40 +0000 https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/?p=3666 Is this the end for the Island’s beloved fishing boat, or can the Lulawai remain where she was built?

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]]> https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/lulawai-lord-howe/feed/ 0 Lulawai https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/lulawai/ https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/lulawai/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:48:10 +0000 https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/?p=1827 Lulawai is now back into the water after being inspected and repaired.

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]]> https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/lulawai/feed/ 0 The vessel that launched 10,000 planes https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/the-vessel-that-launched-10000-planes/ https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/the-vessel-that-launched-10000-planes/#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2023 04:18:06 +0000 https://www.lordhoweislandsignal.com.au/?p=420 In Spanish, Reposado means ‘calm or peaceful rest’, but being shipwrecked could hardly be described as a ‘peaceful’ event ... It was an inglorious end to a top-end boat that had begun life as the Taconite, a luxury motor cruiser commissioned by Bill Boeing, the founder of the Boeing Aircraft Company.

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