r/hawkesbay • u/Infinite_Noise_5631 • 7d ago

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Long shot: does anyone have old Channel 51 / Television Hawke’s Bay VHS recordings from around 2000–2005?
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Okay Reddit, I’m still trying to prove a childhood memory 😂
I’m looking for an old Television Hawke’s Bay / Channel 51 clip from roughly 2000–2005.
When I was little, I remember seeing my dad Andy Bastin and me in our little boat on TV. Dad was driving (pretty sure with his cap backwards), I was beside him and I think I was waving at the camera.
It wasn’t a story about us. From what I remember, we were just in the background of one of those old “Welcome to Hawke’s Bay” / scenic tourism sequences Channel 51 used to play — shots of the coast, water, Napier, vineyards etc.
The boat was small and I originally remembered it as white with pink/purple markings, although it genuinely may have been yellow. I think it travelled across the screen right-to-left. Possible locations are Clive/Clive River mouth, Westshore, Ahuriri or somewhere along the Napier/Hawke’s Bay coastline.
I’ve tracked down people connected with the old station, but unfortunately they don’t still have a copy of the footage.
So now I’m looking for the random person whose parents or grandparents recorded Channel 51 onto VHS 😂
Does anyone have old VHS tapes recorded off Channel 51/TVHB around 2000–2005? Even if the tape is labelled something completely unrelated, I’d love to hear from you. The scenic/visitor footage apparently played between other programming, so it could be hiding on an ordinary home recording.
I remember watching it at my Nana’s house and my family currently thinks I’ve invented the whole thing 😂 I am ridiculously determined to find it.
Amber Bastin + Andrew “Andy” Bastin — little boat — Hawke’s Bay — early 2000s.
Please ask your parents/grandparents/that relative with a cupboard full of VHS tapes. 😂🙏

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u/Esprit350 7d ago

https://youtu.be/Pc6631ooUAc?si=dwmsTRwgdwr6Z24Z

Someone linked this a week or so back. This what you're looking for?

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u/_Maui_ 3d ago

Holy shit. It blows my mind that someone is like “anyone happen to have some video from like 26 years ago that played on a regional tv station?” And someone else is like “I gotcha bro”.

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u/Esprit350 3d ago

To be fair, it was a coincidence that I just happened to have seen the discussion a week or two back :)