Build Date 1910 Boat Builder S. Wood & Son Length 69 Feet Beam 16 Feet Karaka The Wellington Harbour Boat Built in 1910 by S. Wood & Son at their boatyard between Taranaki Street and Clyde Quay Wellington. Wellington Harbour Ferries Ltd., commissioned the build of Karaka for their business working along the Wellington coast. […]
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Build Date 1908 Boat Builder Davey Darroch Length 67.1 Feet Beam 18.6 Feet Jane Gifford’s Early Trading Days Built out of kauri in 1908 by Davey Darroch Jane Gifford was named her after the ship that brought his grandfather George out to New Zealand in 1842. From 1908 to 1916 she was owned by several
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Build Date 1910 Boat Builder George Niccol Length 72 Feet Beam Unknown The Portland From 1910 to 1932 The Portland was built by George Niccol in 1910 as a schooner-rigged hold scow as such she had a large bilge and hold. The lime merchant John Wilson of Auckland became her first owner. He owned her
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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 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 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 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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45ft Jack Guard built fishing boat that worked out of Timaru, Lyttleton, Oamaru and Bluff. Now a Live-aboard.
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Launched in 1972 Donna Maree was a trawler in the Marlborough Sounds but has since converted into a pleasure boat.
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