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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Build Date 1902 Boat Builder Logan Brothers Length 102ft Beam Unknown Everything We Known About Tasman Tasman was built by the Logan Brothers of Auckland for Captain J C Burford in 1902. She weighed 179 tons and had a steam engine. Tasman was intended to replace the Lady Barkly on the Golden Bay run but
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Build Date Pre-1898 Boat Builder Harry Bender Length Unknown Beam Unknown Building and Re-Modelling Taniwha Said to have been built as a fishing cutter called Louie by Harry Bender some time before 1898. It is believed Bender built Taniwha in Wellington and he added a steam engine in 1898. G H Jackson of Wellington and
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Build Date 1912 Boat Builder Sam Ford Length 43 feet Beam Unknown Everything We Know About Rehutai Rehutai was built in 1926 by Sam Ford for C C Ross of Wellington. Rehutai had 50/75hp Stearns engine. R N Barton of Featherston brought her in 1935/6 and berthed her in Picton. In 1938 he re-engined her
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Build Date 1902 Boat Builder George Niccol Length 79ft 6inches/ 24.26m Beam 25ft 6 inches/ .80m Alma’s Early Years Two masted fore and aft schooner rigged deck scow built in Auckland by George Niccol in 1902. She was built out of kauri salvaged from a bridge north of Auckland. They used full-length planks to build
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