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MAHITA is an 11.6m A G Williams built bridge-deck cruiser from 1939, and represents the typical family cruiser of the 1930s and 1940s built by this well-known Sydney firm. The 70 year old vessel has retained a significant amount of its original structure and arrangement and illustrates the standard styling found on many Williams’ cruisers and is a worthy entry in the Australian Historic Vessel Register.
MAHITA has always been a recreational cruiser and no record of any war service has been located by second owner Ron Morley who has contracted us to restore his family cruiser of 40 years back to her former glory. After languishing in a paddock in Bairnsdale for 11 years MAHITA was found to be in a sorry state. So sorry that the first attempt to lift her was almost her demise. Now safely stored in our yard she is undergoing the time consuming but necessary careful dismantling and cataloguing of the interior paneling before the hull undergoes the replanking and reribbing this is much in need.
The vessel is worthy of restoration because it retains the original three level cabin top profile and square cabin windows, a form of styling that was repeated on many Williams’s bridge-deck cruisers. The aft saloon is lower than the forward cabin or wheelhouse, but the cabin top is raised again over the aft cockpit.
This will be a long job but what an honour for us to be entrusted to give MAHITA a second chance at another seventy years of boating history. Thank you Ron.
Not a lot to say about this vessel or any of Mr Hacker's other designs than "exceptional". We can't think of a single design of his we don't like. Miss APBA is a sleek thoroghbred and bigger sister to Rosita. She is just begging to be built using today's modern methods and materials. Designed to win the 1928 American Power Boat Association Gold Cup and to turn heads wherever she ran Miss APBA is our next new build. If you think we are excited about this project just imagine how our client Peter Cavill feels. He has waited patiently while we talked boats, likely costs and time frame for construction. Almost a year since we met and went for a blast in Rosita on the Derwent River, Tasmaina has he made the decision to entrust us as builders of his new gentlemans racer. We all live in exciting times.
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