Build Date Circa 1929 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 30 Feet Beam 7.5 Feet Nautilus’s First Owners Nautilus was built at Wakatahuri in around 1929 but it is not known who commissioned her build. By the 1940s Nautilus was owned by Alexander Don. Don was a schoolteacher. He moored her on the mudflats in Nelson […]
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Build Date 1925 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 44 Feet Beam 12 Feet Building Tawa Claude Wells was commissioned by his cousin Rod Wells to build Tawa up to the gunwales at his boatyard at Wakatahuri. After this Tawa was towed to Punga for Rod to winch her his shed to finish the build. This
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Build Date Around 1919-1920 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 36 feet Beam 7 feet Everything We Know About Otaki Claude Wells built Otaki for his brother-in-law Thomas McManaway of Hikoekoea Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. It is believed Claude Built his part of Otaki in 3 months and then the McManaway’s finished the job. She
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Build Date Circa 1915-16 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 28 Feet Beam 6 Feet Everything We Know About Luna Luna was built out of double skin kahikatea by Claude Wells at Wakatahuri. Claude Wells nephew Alan McManaway owned Luna in the late 1920s and ran a 4 cylinder Chev Petrol engine in her. McManaway used
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Build Date Circa 1914 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 30 Feet Beam 6.5 Feet Kelp and Olof Nielson Kelp was built by Claude Wells at Wakatahuri in around 1914. He used kauri timber to build her with a double skin and low open cabin. She was installed with a 5hp Standard petrol engine. Olof (Alf)
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Build Date 1905-1910 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 32 Feet Beam 6 Feet Everything We Know About Minerva One of the early boats built by Claude Wells at Little Bay. Minerva was 32ft long and 6ft wide with a Orion Petrol Motor. She was built out of Kahikatea. Felix Ward owned her for a time
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Build Date 1906-1910 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 32 Feet Beam 6 Feet Building Nora Thought to be built out of kahikatea. Nora was one of a few boats built by Claude Wells at Little Bay in the Marlborough Sounds. It is unknown who Claude built Nora for, but by 1920 Fredrick Ward of Forsyth
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Build Date 1906 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 32 Feet Beam 6 Feet Building the Tanekaha One of only seven boats built by Claude Wells at Little Bay on the Northeast side of Canoe Bay in 1906. This was where Claude started his boat building business before he moved his family to Wakatahuri. At this
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Build Date Unknown Boat Builder T Brown & Sons Length 87 Feet 7 Inches Beam Unknown Everything We Know About Picton Originally named Koau, Picton was built in Te Kopuru, Northland by T Brown & Sons for Richardson & Co. Ltd. She was built out of timber with a 9 feet 5 inches draft and
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Build Date 1897 Boat Builder C & W Bailey Length 80 Feet Beam Unknown Building Vindex Vindex was built in Auckland by C & W Bailey in 1897. She was built as a ketch-rigged deck scow specifically for carrying cattle which could be held in pens on Vindex’s decks. Although it can be argued she
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