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Wooden seine boat Chelsea Lake. Sank 1987Documenting Historic BC Boats

Wood Fishboats

SISTER KEELSONS

By admin | Published: April 13, 2021
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 deal with some other problems. Floors do at least two things; connect the two sides together across the centreline, and connect the keel to the hull bottom. The sister keelsons do[.....]

Framing Wooden Hulls With UHMW-PE

By admin | Published: June 1, 2017
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 UHMW-PE. As a semi-temporary sister frame repair in isolated cases, the use of UHMW-PE makes perfect sense. It’s easy to install and holds fasteners[.....]

Sakamoto Brothers Boatbuilding at Osland

By admin | Published: March 23, 2016
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 in the background, along with one or two houses and a substantial deer fence. This may be one of the earliest streamlined pilothouses. Photo from the[.....]

Gillnetters at Cassiar Cannery

By admin | Published: March 21, 2016
Storing gillnetters ashore for the winter, at Cassiar Cannery outside Prince Rupert. These were probably taken either before or during WWII, some of the boats have round front proper pilothouses, but many are still the little square one-man box. Also they all seem to have the outside horns on the stern roller, before the taller[.....]

BC Handliner, Luoma Loon

By admin | Published: November 28, 2015
Luoma Loon, BC Handliner built by the Luoma Brothers at Shack Island probably in the 1930’s. She’s 13’2″ x 4′ to the outside of her 1/2″ planking. 12 strakes of red cedar, six per side, on 1/2″ x 1″ bent frames spaced 6″. The Luomas built dozens of these between the 1920’s and 1940’s. At[.....]

Gillnetters at Cassiar Cannery

By admin | Published: November 17, 2015
Gillnetters at Cassiar cannery waiting for the season to start. All painted up, some of these are new boats, one or two built at the cannery and others built by Wahl’s in Prince Rupert. No chimneys so these boats had no heat. This was post Easthope, boats were running Chrysler Crown’s or Ace’s. The flat-transomed[.....]

Fraser, A Gillnetter

By admin | Published: May 24, 2015
I believe the Fraser was originally the Fraser Belle, built in 1959 by Masao Kamachi at Kamachi Boat Works at Queensborough. Masao owned the boat until 1961 so may have fished her those first few years. Her Official Number is 311271, registered at New Westminster. Gross tons 12.0, dimensions – 32’ x 10.3’ x 4.8’.[.....]

Troller Early Spring For Sale

By admin | Published: May 1, 2015
The double-ender Early Spring was built in Sointula, by Edwin Peterson, in 1941. Gross tonnage is 10.63, she’s 37’10” long overall, beam is 9’8″, draft is 5’6″, and displacement 17tons. Power is a 3-71 GM with a Borg-Warner gear and she is Cedar planked on Yew frames. Son James changed some planks under water and[.....]

Troller Hull Lines

By admin | Published: November 4, 2014
The Richmond Star is a 40′ by 12′ troller built by Ernie Wahl in 1977. Below are the few lines drawings of real troller hulls that I’ve been able to gather. There are some shared features to these hulls, drag to the keel, a long parallel mid-section, and considerable reverse in the sections aft. The[.....]

Double-Deck Seiners

By admin | Published: October 27, 2014
The double-decker Chelsea Lake, built as the Great Northern 3 by A.C. Benson Shipyard Ltd. in 1947. Design is probably by Robert Allan of Vancouver. For a few short years big double-decked seiners were the ultimate West Coast fishing boats. Starting in the 1930’s and ending less than 30 years later in the late 1950’s,[.....]

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