The work will focus on treating and restoring the timbers and reassembling the vessel. Daring Rescue Group’s Larry Paul said while the work was being done, volunteers would start the search for a permanent location for the ship to be displayed.
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The vessel has a permit to stay outside the museum for the next three years while it gets restored. The plan is to create a purpose-built facility, he said, called the Daring Discovery Centre. “We can’t start work until [we get] further funding, so we are looking for people who are keen to help”.
Mangawhai home-coming for salvaged vessel Daring after 158-year absence
4 May, 2021 03:37 AM
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The 16-ft wide Daring arrives by boat transporter yesterday. Photo / Elevated Media NZ
Reporter for the Northern Advocate jodi.bryant@nzme.co.nz
After almost 160-years, an ill-fated unique vessel has returned to its final resting place of Mangawhai, welcomed by a lone piper in an emotional dawn ceremony today.
The Daring is a 17m schooner built from Kauri by a Nova Scotian boat builder in Mangawhai in 1863. She was used to transport goods along the coast before there were roads or rail. But, eight months later, she stranded at Waikato Heads and was reported a wreck.
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