Workshop News
I have been playing with NZ native timbers currently varnishing this chest it is For Sale $3250.00 and made 10 Platters $80 each I have 4 left
Peter Murton
I am a boat builder and carpenter Joiner I have done both apprenticeships.
My wife and i started Murton's Timber-craft in 1995 in Wellington we also built and owned a motor camp on our land in 2007 we sold the camp and moved to nelson in 2008 with our 2 boys and set up a new workshop on our property
Work shop News
3 new restorations underway and the Marlin is upside down to have rotten plank ends repaired and painting. A 22ft clinker launch is in for some rot repairs and internal fit out new bunks seating some one removed the structural […]
Boat Yard News
New pathfinder is finished we had a nice sail/drift around Nelson Harbour in her. Ulva is all done she is off to get road cover made and I am making 2 sets of oars for her. I have started the […]
Fault line Furniture
workshop news
We have two new builds underway a Welsford 17ft pathfinder and a 17ft sliding seat rowing skiff. Ulva the 19ft row/sail boat is almost finished and i have a new product line called Fault line furniture we are making wooden […]
Workshop News
Ulva and the 9ft clinkers are in the final stages of painting. I have started kitseting a Welsford Pathfinder and a 17ft single sliding seat openwater rowboat that we will build as soon as I get some workshop space. The […]
Wanted Chev stovepipe Engine
I have a 1929 engine that the former owner dropped while geting it out for me dizzy fuel pump fly wheel sheld are stuffed and one post on the rocker. motor was a good runner so need parts or another […]
Recovering old Kauri ski/race boat hull
Vintage race/ski boat project
This old girl is 18ft x 5ft built late 1940s kauri hull all copper fastened decks were canvis covered two coppits. mid mounted motor. wit one exhourst outlet. we are going to restore her as close to original as we […]
workshop news
Another 14ft whitehall finished for a Auckland cliant. We have a order for a duckling 17 to be built its a 17ft sliding seat row boat the 9ft clinker is all re-ribed waiting for some Kauri to arrive for new […]