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Maritime treasures on display u by Andy Bryenton
The schooner Daring came home to Mangawhai this year after spending close to one and half centuries entombed under the sands of Muriwai.
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“We’re not performing a restoration, but putting her back to how she came out of the sand,” says Mangawhai Daring Trust foundation member Jim Wintle. The trust became the custodian of the vessel earlier this year. “You might come in one day, and using threaded rods, move a single plank five millimetres back into place. Then, a week later, you might move that same plank another three or four millimetres. Over time, this all adds up.” Last week, a special exhibition of artefacts gleaned from that unexpected burial opened at the Mangawhai Museum. It displayed the preservative process that has kept items like bottles, tobacco pipes and even items of clothing well-conserved. Alongside the p Mangawhai Daring Trust members officially open an exhibition of the vessel’s taonga at Mangawhai Museum Swedish warship Vasa, the In addition to parts of the ship and items Daring is considered to be one of the best- It’s educational and interesting, even for preserved maritime archaeological finds people who are not right into sailing or found within the wreck, the exhibition ever uncovered. history because it’s one of a kind.” features replicas of shipboard tools like The Mangawhai-built ship was run anchor winches and cargo cranes, all Members of the Mangawhai Daring Trust have been hard at work since the aground during a fierce storm off Muriwai handmade by members of the trust. Video Victorian-era coastal trader was hoisted beach, and the deep sand it sunk into of the Daring’s rescue from the beach is into a custom cradle under cover next to preserved its structure and contents. also on display, as this unprecedented the museum. Mr Wintle confirmed their A leather shoe, part of the current showcase opens to the public. exhibition, looked almost fit to lace up painstaking efforts are bearing fruit. Groundwork has begun on a 40-metre“It’s exceptional to have the Daring just and wear today, for example. Jim Wintle long, climate-controlled facility, which will next door to the museum as the members said that it’s not just history on display. eventually display the entire vessel. This of the trust work on it,” says Mangawhai Cutting-edge science has been used to construction project will take a further prevent artefacts from crumbling as they two and a half years, following a similar Museum manager Emma McDermott. “Local people and school kids can are exposed to the air for the first time timeline to work being undertaken on the ship itself. ¢ come and take a look at the progress. in decades.
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