Mahau: Early Marlborough Sounds Mail Boat Build Date 1919 Boat Builder Eric Jacobsen Length 30ft Beam Mahau and the Sounds Mail Run Eric Jacobsen was one of the earliest mailmen in the Marlborough Sounds to use a motor launch. Before the 1920s large steam ships were used which proved to be less efficient that employing […]
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45ft Jack Guard built fishing boat that worked out of Timaru, Lyttleton, Oamaru and Bluff. Now a Live-aboard.
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34ft Boat designed and partially built by Jack Guard with John McCauley completing the build.
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The 40th boat built by Jorgensen and Sons Ltd. in Picton. It was so exciting the launch was written about in the local press.
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Built for Cmndr Critchley Hine Moana II was launched in 1963. Now owned by a syndicate in Motueka.
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Launched in 1963, Virgo started as a commercial fishing boat but was converted into a pleasure boat.
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39ft Roger Carey designed launch. Hinewai was made to be a pleasure boat with a trawler style.
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Luxury launch designed by Athol Burns and built by Jorgensen and Sons Ltd. for Hugh Carter.
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Built in the boat shed at Wakatahuri by Tom Well’s, the Southern Isles was a pleasure launch and a fishing boat from time to time.
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Built by Francis Wells in the boat shed at Wakatahuri. The Valmarie is the largest boat built at Wakatahuri at 54 feet long and 17 foot beam.
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