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Sakamoto Brothers Boatbuilding at Osland
Above is the beautiful gillnetter Bee, built 1933 at Osland. She might be double-ended or round-sterned, but hard-chined (vee-bottom) which is very unusual. It’s launching day. There’s another boatshop...
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The Cogge Nonsuch
In 1916 Douglas P. Urry was serving (probably RCN) in the North Sea. While reading off watch he came across mention of “the Cogge Thomas,” and started to wonder what that ship might look like. He wrote...
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Wooden boat building, like all construction methods, continues to evolve with availability of skills and materials. But I have to come down against the wholesale replacement of bent oak ribs with...
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Assessing the significance of a vessel From: Recording Historic Vessels by National Historic Ships, UK. The goal of researching a vessel’s history is to gain a fuller understanding of the significance...
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SISTER KEELSONS
Sterling Shipyard drawing of sister keelsons Sister Keelson installation by Sterling Shipyard. The sister keelson’s were a west coast substitute for floor timbers, adopted to do the floor’s job and...
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Cruising the West Coast of Vancouver Island by M. Wylie Blanchet.
Cruising the West Coast of Vancouver Island By M. Wylie Blanchet Published in Rudder Magazine of December 1936 Is cruising the West Coast of Vancouver Island feasible for the small cruiser? “Quite...
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OF RATS AND MEN
Beach at Roberts Creek looking south from the creek mouth. A story by Harry Roberts. Re-written by Tad Roberts in August 2022. From : Of Rats And Men, I believe this could have been an unpublished...
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ODAMIT (oh-dam-it)
Odamit (Later Chack-Chack), my Grandfather Harry Roberts boat, at Malaspina Galleries, Gabriola Island, 1924. The boat was about 35′ x 12′, built on the beach at Roberts Creek and launched 1923. Harry...
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DRAGOON
Dragoon Dragoon, an Ocean Racing Ketch Launched 1925 Built by H.W. Embree & Son in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia Designed by Ford, Payne, and Sweisguth Drawn by Francis Sweisguth (1882-1970) Built...
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Beachcombing
Beachcombing Texada (Based on a story told me by my father, Lee Roberts) By Tad Roberts Beachcombing in BC is a very specific enterprise; the practice of cruising the local coastline in a small boat...
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