Build Date Boat Builder Length Beam Thomas Lovell Moves To Motueka West Coast fishermen Phil McDonald was the original owner of Thomas Lovell but within a few years Bob Brown and his wife Thelma had brought him out. In the book Motueka Wharf 100 Years it is said Phil McDonald and Bob Brown brought the […]
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Build Date 1920 Boat Builder Geoge T Niccol Length 99 feet Draught 7 feet Building Motu and Her Early Trading Days Motu was built by George T Niccol of Auckland for the Northern Steamship Company in 1920. She was built to be an auxiliary schooner but was changed to ketch rigged in 1922 and later
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Build Date 1897 Boat Builder Lane and Brown Length 94 feet Beam Unknown Talisman and The Golden Bay Shipping Company Talisman was a schooner-rigged hold scow built in Whangaroa by Lane and Brown in 1897. She was used to transport shingle for the Golden Bay Shipping Company until 1930. The Golden Bay Shipping Company was
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Build Date 1912 Boat Builder Frank and Bill Hawken Length Unknown Beam Unknown Everything We Know About Kia Ora Kia Ora was built by Frank Hawken and his son Bill in Whakarewa Street, Motueka in 1912 but they launched her at Batchelor’s Ford in 1913. Frank used his boat for catching fish commercially and carrying
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Build Date 1900 Boat Builder Lane and Brown Length 98.5 feet Beam 13 feet Wairau’s Unfortunate Beginnings Wairau was originally a topsail schooner named Ronga. She was built in 1900 by Lane and Brown at Whangaroa. Presumably her first owner was T H Kerr of Christchurch and whilst she was owned by Kerr her skipper
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Whareatea: The Only Steam Powered Boat Built By Claude Wells Build Date Circa 1917 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 42ft Beam 10ft Building the Whareatea At the time Whareatea was the largest launch Claude Wells had ever built. It was so large he had to extend the boat shed at Wakatahuri to fit it in.
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Built by Jack Guard in Pukatea Bay, Gipsy is ex-fishing boat with lots of style
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Build Date 1916-17 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 32ft Beam 7ft Building Venus Thought to have been built for Maurice Hope of Wynen’s Bay in around 1916-17. Venus was made out of kauri and was built at Wakatahuri by Claude Wells. Nothing is known about Venus between her launch and the mid 1950s when Chris
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Gael: Westland Trading Vessel Build Date 1904 Boat Builder Unknown Length Unknown Beam Unknown Gael’s Trading Days Gael was built in 1904 as a steamer and was later converted to a diesel engine in the 1930s. She was owned by the South Westland Shipping Company for a time and was skippered by Albert Tregidga. This
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Diane: 47.5ft Athol Burns Fishing Boat Build Date Launched 1946 Boat Builder Athol Burns Length 47 ft 5 inches/14.5m Beam Unknown Everything We Know About Diane Diane was designed by Athol Burns of Wellington and built at Balaena Bay for Albert and George Tregidga. The Tregidga brothers had decided to build a boat after the
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