Build Date 1930 Boat Builder G T Niccol Length Beam Taupata at Anchor Shipping and During WW2 Built in Auckland by GT Niccol in 1930 Taupata was sold to the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company Ltd., before her fit out was complete. But G T Niccol got to use her to make two trips to […]
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Build Date Boat Builder George Brassell Length 47 Feet Beam 16 Feet Everything We Know About Miss Akaroa After George Brassell sold his first boat build, the Tawera he purchased a boat called the Orari to do charters around Akaroa but this boat provide to not be ideal so he then built the Miss Akaroa.
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Build Date 1946 Boat Builder George Brassell Length 58 Feet Beam 15 Feet 6 inches Building Tawera During the war George Brassell skippered the examination vessel at Lyttleton and then worked as a Deck Officer with the Union Steamship Company. But in the final year of the war, he went to Port Chalmers to build
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Build Date 1933 Boat Builder Norman Wells and George Woodroofe Length 22 Feet Beam 6 Feet Everything We Know About Murabel The Wakatahuri School teacher built Murabel with Norman Wells during his tenure in the bay in 1933. To power her they borrowed a 6 Cylinder Cleveland Petrol engine from Norman’s brother, Bernard Wells. Murabel
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Build Date 1930 Boat Builder Ronnie Wells Length 22 Feet Beam Unknown Everything We Know About Bonny Bonny is perhaps the first boat built by Ronnie Wells built for himself. He would have been 20 at the time and is thought to have completed the build at Wakatahuri. She had a Continental Petrol engine which
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Build Date Circa 1935 Build Date Claude and Ronnie Wells Length 24 Feet Beam 6ft 6 inches Building Lochiel/Lynette Built for French Pass farmer Wallace Webber Lochiel/Lynette is believed to be the last speedboat built by Claude Wells at Wakatahuri though he completed the build with his son Ronnie wells. The date she was built
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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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