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Coast community helps brothers refloat boat
Brothers Wayne Makiri, left, and Eli Pattison, with their boat Dorina refloated at Little Manly.
A storm, followed by theft, was a blow for the Dorina’s new owners. Photo, Gilbert Peterson. Restoring the boat, pictured in 2003, is a family project. Photo, courtesy Tad Motyl.
The support of the community, including Coastguard Hibiscus, has seen the Dorina, which lay half sunk off Little Manly Beach, refloated and safely anchored in the Weiti River.
In due course the boat will be taken to its new home in Te Atatu.
The launch drew a lot of local attention when it was swamped by a storm on April 10 while anchored in Little Manly Bay ....

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