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ARIES

Aries is a 26’ Roy Parris launch, launched in 1962. She has a kauri hull & mahogany topsides.

Her zoom zoom comes via a Perkins 4-108 diesel.

She is listed on trademe (thanks Ian McDonald) & while she has recently had some TCL to the cabin sides she stills require finishing off.

Her reserve (starting bid) is $500, so there could be a bargain entry level woody to be had here 🙂

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Stuart Johnston on October 18, 2018 at 8:31 am said:

This looks like a Roy Parris vessel, Christopher Bede, originally built for Bill Doherty (of Chris Bede photography) around this time. If so she had a Gray Marine 6 cyl in the vicinity of 120 – 125hp if memory serves.

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