Poppy

Laid up

Orient dock (print)

Gay Head

A perfect set

Butler's Flat Lighthouse, New Bedford

Selected Works

Biography
The story of the extraordinary -- but unacknowledged -- Polynesian who ensured the success of Cook's first discovery voyage
Castaway drama
A gripping tale of two starkly contrasting castaway experiences
Controversial castaways of Campbell Island
The ordeal of the castaways, and the political fall-out that followed their rescue
Wiki Coffin Mystery #1
Murder most foul in Portsmouth, Virginia, is solved in the middle of the Atlantic.
Wiki Coffin Mystery #2
Pirate-hunting on the coast of Brazil
Wiki Coffin Mystery #3
Wiki Coffin must clear his father's name of murder in this third seafaring mystery set aboard the U.S. Exploring Expedition.
Wiki Coffin Mystery #4
Contracted to track down the man who stole a sealing schooner, instead Wiki Coffin finds a skull at the foot of a sacred Gualichu tree in the stark hinterland of the Rio Negro, and joins the Patagonian gauchos to solve a grotesque murder
Wiki Coffin Mystery #5
A murderous encounter in the icy seas south of Cape Horn
Revenge at Sea
Murder and rebellion on the whaleship Sharon.
Women Under Sail
Captains' wives at sea.

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CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION

Te Mahia, Kenepuru Sound

White Boat

Wave

Point Halswell, Wellington

Cape Koamaru from Queen Charlotte Sound

South Seas Whalers

Canoe at Mystery Island

White Skiff

Floating leaf

Port and Starboard

Boat with blue tarpaulin, Taupo

Blue Boat

Ron's wonderful work can be viewed at the EXHIBITIONS GALLERY, Featherston Street, Wellington, New Zealand, which is staging a CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION, starting 1 December.

To contact the artist, e-mail druettron@​yahoo.com.au