Build Date Around 1906-1911 Boat Builder Claude Wells Length 32ft Beam 6ft Everything We Know About Rata Rate was built by Claude Wells at Little Bay for Ernie Duckworth of Pelorus Sound. Claude Wells and his family lived at Little Bay between 1906 and 1911 so it can be guessed Rata was built somewhen around […]
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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 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 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 1935 Boat Builder Claude Wells and Bernard Wells Length 45 feet / 13.4 m Beam 12 feet Building Wakanui Wakanui was built by Claude Wells and his son Bernard Wells. She was built for Bernard and they launched Wakanui on the day Bernard’s second son Pat was born in 1935. At the time
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Built by Jack Guard in Pukatea Bay, Gipsy is ex-fishing boat with lots of style
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Southern Maid: Ernie Lane Launch Build Date 1928 or 1929 Boat Builder Ernest Richard Lane Length 42 Feet Beam 11 Feet 6 Inches Everything We Know About The Southern Maid Southern Maid was built in 1928 or 29 in Picton by Ernest (Ernie) Richard Lane. Lanes boatyard was on The Spit and produced commercial boats
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Shango: 40ft Keith Atkinson Launch Build Date 1970 Boat Builder Keith Atkinson Length 12 metres / 40 feet Beam 4 metres / 13 feet Everything We Know About Shango Shango was designed and built by Keith Atkinson in 1970. Shango is made out of kauri strip planks and fibre glass over timber decks. She was
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Pescador: 36ft John Lidgard Launch Build Date 1968 Boat Builder John Lidgard Length 36 feet Beam Everything We Know About Pescador Pescador was designed and built by John Lidgard for Derrick (Don) Chapman of Henderson. But he only owned her for a short time before he sold Pescador to Sir Keith Park. Chapman and Park
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