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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Regent: 40ft Ronnie Wells Fishing Boat Launch Date 1946 Boat Builder Ronnie Wells Length 40ft approx. Beam The Regent’s Short Life On his return to New Zealand after World War Two Ronnie Wells is thought to have sold his launch the Silver Dawn and built a new boat called Regent for himself. He powered the
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The Majestic has been a commercial fishing boat, a World War Two service vessel and is now a pleasure boat.
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Silver Dawn was a double skin kahikatea passenger boat which later delivered the mail and even became a commercial fishing vessel
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