ALONDRA
OWNER: David Cook
ABOUT THE BOAT:
The construction is of carvel type planked haul on bent ribs. The planking above the waterline is western red cedar and planks below the waterline are of Douglas Fir. The hull is a displacement style with result being that she is good in a following sea.
HISTORY:
During WWII, Alondra was enrolled in the coast guard auxillary. The white board near the wheelhouse door has her war time number displayed. Private vessels were encouraged to join the auxillary and were to be used to evacuate Vancouver Island in the event of an armed attack.
RESTORATION:
The vessel is equipped with two masts that accommodate three steady sails. The clinker built dinghy was constructed in the early 1950’s and has recently been restored.
Alondra was designed and constructed by David E. (Ted) Cook and his son Edward- the owner’s father and grandfather! Ted Cook was a master shipwright who spent the second quarter of the twentieth century in various shipyards in the Vancouver Coal Harbour area.
ANJA
OWNER: Arnt and Valerie Arntzen
ABOUT THE BOAT:
23′ carvel-planked gaff rigged Bristol pilot cutter designed by Roger Long as a pocket cruiser. The Hull was built in 2014 on Saltspring Island, BC. By David Betts, but without the trunk cabin. It is Sapele (mahogany) planking on steam-bent oak frames with bronze fastenings. In 2020 current owner Arnt Arntzen added to the great hull and completed the pocket cruiser build. This included adding the cabin, rig and interior. She has a two burner propane stove, ice box, plenty of storage and a large double berth for comfortable cruising.
POWER:
20 horse Beta Marine diesel
GREAT STORY:
Arnt designs and builds custom furniture, often from castaway wood or metal oddments that have outlived their designated life and he has stashed away. Much of Anjas’ hardware is made from recycled bronze and the Cockpit seats are recycled old growth fir church pews.
TIDBIT:
ANJA has cruised the west coast as far north as Alert Bay and Broken Islands on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
She is exciting to sail with plenty of strings to pull with 4 sails including the topsail which sets over 500 square feet. She now calls Vancouver her home port.
BIANCA
OWNER: Maurizio Hublitz & Cecilia Rosell
DESIGN:
Bianca is a 32 foot cabin cruiser built in 1959. She is a Chris Craft 32ft Express one of 17 built between 1957 and 1959 in Holland Michigan. Her hull is Double planked solid Mahogany under the water line and batten seamed Mahogany above the water line. Deck is solid teak, interior is Mahogany and a teak sole . We have restored her to be as original as possible We use her extensively and have cruised up and down the coast and about 2000 nautical miles every year for the past 9 years. We now have Francis our 2 year old deck hand, who at some point had spent half his life cruising.
ABOUT THE BOAT:
She was originally powered by two Chrysler 392 and had a recorded top speed by the first Dealer at Bryant Marine in Seattle of 33mph (28knots), today she has two chevy 350 based engines and a top speed we had her to 27 knots.
RENOVATIONS:
No conversions have been made; Bianca has been restored to be as original as possible. Every item onboard is from 1959, including such items as chairs, table, silverware or magazines in the magazine stand: The galley even features a dishwasher by Husqvarna from 1961.
BLACK DAVE
OWNER: Liz Kelly
DESIGN:
Recreational Troller-cruiser built by Bill Garden and Laurie Armstrong & Son in Sidney, Vancouver Island in 1996. LOA 28′, Beam 10′, Draft 3′. Oak frames, carvel planked yellow cedar Engine is a US Marine Hino W04D diesel, 4 cylinder 110 HP inboard. 6ft V-berth forward with lockers, Port side: dinette which converts to a sleeping bunk, fridge, head with basin and toilet. Starboard side: helm, galley stove and sink. Large aft cockpit with helm to port and seating, engine below the cockpit.
HISTORY:
Black Dave was owned by naval architects Greg Marshall and Gord Galbraith, based in Victoria. Greg was introduced to Bill Garden at the age of 15 and spent the next 6 years as Bill Garden’s apprentice.
Black Dave was Bill Garden’s long serving mechanic, nicknamed because he was always covered in oil and dirt. Apparently Black Dave also had a dark side, so the story goes he was a big drinker and quite the ladies man. It was a condition of sale that the name would never be changed.
DAGON
OWNER: Nathan Attal
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Dagon is a Seagoer built in 1956, which is a larger model of the more common seabird Yall. She was built in Seattle by GA Swanson and designed by Thomas Fleming Day.
Dagon was built with a gasoline engine but sailed engineless for years including by her last owner Barry of Thunder Child. She has sailed to Alaska multiple times and all throughout the inside passage. Living in the same bay as Barry I’ve heard of many a misadventure aboard her but hope to have many more stories to make. I am currently living aboard with my 150lb st.Bernard.
RENOVATIONS:
She was recently repowered with a 25HP Volvo Penta 2 Cylinder, where there has never been a inboard engine before.
HISTORY:
She used to be named Gypsy!
NATHAN LIVES ABOARD DAGON WITH HIS 150lb St. BERNARD!
Eagle Nest II
OWNER: Rod Schneider
ABOUT THE BOAT:
77’ Grenfell McQueen flush deck motor yacht. Designed by Ed Monk and built by McQueen’s Boat Works in 1973. Wood carvel planked Hull, African Mahogany Floors in Galley, interior is finished in teak paneling.
POWER:
Two 1972, 500HP, 12V71 Detroit Diesels.
GREAT STORY:
The Eagle Nest II can be operated with a crew of two, Captain and Mate. It has 5 Cabins and can accommodate 5 overnight Guests.
Max Speed: 16 Knots Cruising Speed: 12 Knots
She has been meticulously maintained by her longtime skipper and Philbrook’s Shipyard in Sidney BC.
TIDBIT:
Eagle Nest Charters offers custom charters to Princess Louisa Inlet, Wine Tasting Tours and Sunset Tours in Pender Harbour.
Eagle Nest Charters is based in Pender Harbour, BC on the beautiful Sunshine Coast and Eagle Nest II is kept in a boat house in the Harbour
Escalante
OWNER: Gord Wintrup
ABOUT THE BOAT:
48’ Yacht designed by Ed Monk and built in 1961 by Benson Brothers in Coal Harbour. Hull is traditional carvel with 1 1/2″ yellow cedar bottom planking, 1 1/4″ yellow cedar sides over 8″ oak frames
POWER:
1961 – 180hp gasoline GM -671 engine.
Repowered in 1965 with a 220hp General Motors Corp. GM-871 diesel engine
GREAT STORY:
In 1961-1971 her name was Dorlen (I) she was owned by Leonard G. Sewell. In 1964 she was winner of the Dr. Bob McKechnie Predicted Log Race (RVYC Trophy for the British Columbia yacht with the lowest percentage of error of all British Columbia skippers competing in the International Power Boat Race
From 1971 to 2025 her new name was Escalante (II), and she was owned Lyon H. (Mike) and Joan Michalson, West Vancouver BC
TIDBIT:
In 2025 Gord Wintrup had registered to attend our show with “My Fair Lady” but with a month to go he announced he was assuming guardianship of “Escalante”. Mike Michalson, who had owned her for the last 54 years, and is now 96 years old himself, is aboard her for his last cruise on the old girl
ESTHER MARIE
OWNER: Sheane and Kathy Reid
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Family-built sailboat (a double-ended gaff-rigged cutter) that follows a 1930 design by Colin Adkin. 11.5 m x 3.3 m x 1.6 m. Constructed largely of local wood: Douglas fir stem and bow sprit (Howe Sound) , Western red cedar hull boards (Langdale), yellow cedar deck beams (Mt. Elphinstone), maple cabin knee braces (Gambier Island), Sitka spruce box mast (Haida Gwaii), and white oak hot steam box ribs (Eastern Canada). She has a carvel planked cedar hull, a hand-carved oak tiller and a 48-ft. cutter-rigged spruce mast.
HISTORY:
Esther Marie was a family construction project for more than 50 years. In the early 1970s, a Douglas fir stem three feet in diameter was dropped off in the yard of Weldon (Sam) and Esther (Slim) Reid in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast. Sam decided to use it to build a cutter-rigged Ingrid sailboat. He worked on it year after year with assistance from his
three children, and in 2015, when he and his wife were in their 80s, the boat was launched in Gibsons, christened Esther Marie in Slim’s honour. Her actual signature is on the hull. Sam and Slim passed away in 2021, and the Esther Marie is now owned by Sam’s son, Sheane, and his wife, Kathy, of Secret Cove.
The Esther Marie is a sailboat but she has a 20bhp diesel auxiliary engine–“just enough motor to get you out of harbour” according to Sheane.
EUPHEMIA II
OWNER: Peter Harvey and Valerie Nash
ABOUT THE BOAT:
A 50’ classic yacht, this motor cruiser was built in 1928 by the Schertzer Brothers at Lake Washington, Seattle. Euphemia II perfectly captures the aesthetic of West Coast cruisers of its time. Its graceful lines and powerful presence are underpinned by fine materials and excellent craftsmanship. The tri-cabin layout features a forward cabin that sleeps two, a centre-cabin wheelhouse and an aft cabin containing a galley and saloon that can dine six or sleep two. There is a main head in the aft cabin and a “night head” in the forward cabin. Length: 50’ (47’ plus swim grid). Beam: 10’7. Hull planks: Port Orford cedar. Hull frames: oak. Cabin soles: teak. Deck: Port Orford cedar with teak margin boards. Superstructure: Burmese teak. The engine, located below the wheelhouse floor, was originally a 928 Hall Scott 6-cylinder gas motor, and has been rebuilt several times; today power comes from a 1967 Volvo 6-cylinder 118 hp. Diesel.
HISTORY:
The vessel’s earlier owners were prominent citizens of the Seattle area. First named Mary-Mar-Ann and owned by Frank J. Seidelhuber, she was later rechristened Wanderer by Anson Moody and owned subsequently by Thomas Gleed and John Bentzen. E.L. “Binks” Rainford named her Euphemia II in 1966 before ownership passed to Dr. Floyd and Chirstine Stanley, then to Peggy and Mike O’Brien. In 2021 she was bought by Nash, Harvey and Associates.
TIDBIT:
Euphemia was built to race to Alaska, which it did several times. During WWII it served as a coastal patrol boat. Its later misadventures included being stolen once and being partially sunk in Canadian waters. Since salvage, Euphemia has been in Canadian ownership.
Forest Ranger II
OWNER: Doug Mitchell
ABOUT THE BOAT:
45’ Forest Ranger Launch built in 1953 at the Forest Service Marine Depot on the Fraser River in Vancouver. Mahogany-planked transom stern, carvel cedar-planked hull above the waterline, fir planking below on bent oak frames. Marine plywood decks and superstructure.
POWER:
165 hp GM (“Jimmy”) 6-71 engine (rebuilt in 1998)
GREAT STORY:
The Ranger/Skipper was supported by two crew, a cook /deckhand and engineer /cook) Initially based at Thurston Bay on Sonora Island and later Campbell River, She was used to patrol and inspect coastal logging operations between Vancouver Island and the mainland, including some adjacent mainland inlets. She has been restored and maintained for more than three decades by owner Doug Mitchell,
TIDBIT:
In retirement, Forest Ranger II has not been idle, having circumnavigated Vancouver Island and cruised to Haida Gwaii and the central Coast. She has been home-ported in Sidney since 1992
GAIA
OWNER: The Ingersoll Family
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Gaff-rigged ketch with Bermuda Mizzen, Topmast and Yardarm on the Mainmast Wood 60’, Beam 18’ Built in 1921 in Bohuslan, Sweden.
HISTORY:
Originally constructed as an engineless North Sea sailing trawler – “a design renowned for its seaworthiness, uncompromising strength and surprisingly swift underwater hull design.” First 10 HP engine installed in 1939.
RESTORATION:
Converted to a sailing yacht in 1975, sold in Venezuela in 2003 and purchased by the BC Ingersoll family in 2005. She continues as a family owned yacht and is enjoyed by family and friends. In the last three years she has undergone extensive renovation!
TIDBIT:
During WWII, Gaia was arrested by the Germans for smuggling refugees from Denmark to the Scottish Shetland Islands.
GLADSONG II
OWNER: David Peebles
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Gladsong II was manufactured at the Chris-Craft plant in Holland, Michigan in 1962.
She was moored at RVYC Coal Harbour for her first 39 years. Her current owners are her second. They have refastened and refinished Gladsong II, rebuilt the original running gear, and upgraded her with new systems and wiring.
MESSENGER III
OWNER: Capt Bill Noon
ABOUT THE BOAT:
MESSENGER III was built in 1946 for the Shantymen’s Christian Association (SCA) for religious missions to the numerous First Nations communities, logging camps, and fishing camps along the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island. She is one of the few survivors of 91 mission boats of various sizes known to have served in this role in the province.
HISTORY:
Every summer MESSENGER III carried children to summer camps that the SCA ran at several locations, and she also occasionally served as an ambulance vessel for a mission hospital at Esperanza, about two thirds of the way up Vancouver Island. Messenger has served as a pleasure vessel since 1968.
RESTORATION:
Messenger has undergone a slow but steady rebuild since 2001 by well-known and respected shipwrights Ted Knowles of Victoria and Chris Earl of Vancouver’s Gronlunds boatyard.
Messenger III is featured in several books. “Splendor from the Sea” by R. Keller, and “Looking Astern” by Earl Johnson. She was also featured in 1954 Life Magazine, and in Wooden oat magazine in 2022.
Her history involves the development of Scotty fishing products, including the SCOTTY Downrigger through to the 1990s.
NEREUS
OWNER: Christopher Earl
DESIGN:
Built in 1969 in Sydney B.C. by Doug Barrons and Allan Falyck.
ABOUT THE BOAT:
She is fir on oak with yellow cedar beams, clamps and stringers and a laid fir deck.
RENOVATIONS:
I have done no major changes to Nereus except removed some fishing gear.
HISTORY:
Builders Doug Barrons and Allan Falcon fished her for one season. John Homer owned her 1972-79 and then Gerry Creelman 1980 – 2007. I bought the Nereus in 2008.
Nereus was the original ‘old man of the sea’ in Greek mythology.
Nootka
OWNER: Tim Robison & Sandra Clavero
ABOUT THE BOAT:
A 38’ Canadian missionary boat designed and built in 1957 by Barney Williams, fisherman and shipwright of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation.
The carvel planked hull is constructed of 1 1/4” cedar planking. Frames are steam bent White oak, 1 3⁄4” x 2 3/4 “ on approx.11” centers in the Canadian style
POWER:
96 hp 4 cyl John Deere Diesel, replacing a Bedford Diesel
GREAT STORY:
Initially named “Ave Maria” her name was changed in 2016. Tim and Sandra became more familiar with the fraught history of Residential Schools and the treatment of First Nations and Native American children where attendance was compulsory, and speaking in native languages was punished. They decided the name “NOOTKA” more appropriately reflected the history of the Pacific Northwest, as it is the name explorers originally gave to the Nuu-chah-nulth and seeks to honor the heritage of the builder.
TIDBIT:
This vessel was designed and built in 1957 by the eye and hand of a First Nation shipwright on the beach at Meares Island, Clayoquot Sound. Barney Williams was a shipwright, fisherman and Chief of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation. This makes Nootka unique in the history of the Mission Boats.
Oceanaire 1
OWNER: David and Penny Thompson
ABOUT THE BOAT:
49’ wood Grand Banks passage maker yacht designed by Robert Dorris and built in 1972 by American Marine in Hong Kong. She was the last of the wood Grand Banks to be built.
The hull is Mahogany carvel (flush) planked with cove lines. Frames are “yackel” which is a wood similar to white oak
POWER:
Twin 6 cyl. Ford diesels
GREAT STORY:
Following a fire in Tacoma where she was burned almost to the aft deck, David and Penny purchased her in 2004 as a complete write-off. They towed her back to Vancouver and spent two years restoring her.
They keep two special features on board: Two scale models: one of Oceanaire, which is radio-controlled (twin screw), and the other of their earlier cherished yacht the “Willobee G” that cruised Indian Arm in 1927-28
TIDBIT:
Dave and Penny’s favourite area to explore is North of Cape Caution and have been to Alaska twice. They have a blog site (furynorth.blog spot.ca) with lots of pictures and stories of adventures travelling along the B.C. coast.
Oak II
OWNER: Lorne Berman
ABOUT THE BOAT:
34’ 4’ draft 9’ beam Designed as a forestry cruiser by Tommy Edwards of the BC Forest Service Marine Division and launched in 1952 at the Marine Station Builders shipyard on the Fraser River. Hull is red and yellow cedar and fir; frames are bent white oak on 8” centres; trim is mahogany and oak with gumwood guards; fir mast, stainless boom.
POWER:
371 Jimmy (GM) 110 HP
GREAT STORY:
Oak II was designed to provide live-aboard accommodation for two forest rangers who conducted forest surveys, monitored logging operations and assisted with fires. For 25 years, she worked around Campbell River and Kelsey Bay then, when the Forest Service retired the cruisers in 1977, she and her sister ships were put up for auction.
TIDBIT:
One of 11 forestry sister ships nicknamed The Blimps.
Pacific
OWNER: DON MACMILLAN
ABOUT THE BOAT:
50’ retired Halibut longliner, Built 1970-71 by Roy Johnson in Queensborough
Hull is fir on oak ribs with yellow cedar beams, stringers and a laid fir deck.
Powered by a Scania DS 1101 diesel
Home port for “Pacific” is now Degnen Bay, Gabriola Island
HISTORY:
Pacific was built to longline for halibut in the North Pacific. Don bought “Pacific” in 1996 and she fished halibut exclusively until they both retired.
RENOVATIONS:
Her configuration is much unchanged from her fishing days. She now has bunks in the fish hold now though. Over the last few years almost every piece of wood above the waterline has been replaced but with the goal of retaining her original appearance
TIDBIT:
The halibut fishermen of B.C. regarded her as one of the best of her type.
Passat V
OWNER: William Mainguy
ABOUT THE BOAT:
45’ double-ended pilothouse ketch built in 1951 at Niendorff, West Germany by Ernst Evers Yacht & Boatworks. The hull is teak-planked and it has undergone several maintenance refits, as well as benefitting from the addition of modern cruising features to its classic seaworthy design. The ketch rig features Doyle sails, aluminum spars, roller-furling genoa, and stack pack sail covers/lazy jacks
It can be captained from either the half-round cockpit or the pilothouse.
POWER:
Originally powered 1951 87bhp GMC diesel engine, now powered by a
70 HP Beta (Kubota) diesel engine
GREAT STORY:
When Harold V. Seaglynn, Victoria BC sold her in 2019. All proceeds from the sale went to help send young people on sail training voyages with SALTS (Sail and Life Training Society).
TIDBIT:
The Passat was built in 1951 at Niendorff, West Germany by Ernst Evers Yacht & Boatworks. She is ketch–rigged and named for the famous four–masted barque Passat.
PUFFIN
OWNER: Dan McPherson
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Designer: Bill Garden
Power: Yanmar 2GM diesel, 13 HP
CONSTRUCTION:
Mahogany strip plank, sheathed in epoxy & ‘glass, on oak keel, sitka spruce spars.
HISTORY:
Built 1986, by Walker Boatbuilding Kingston Ontario. Owner worked for Walker when the company moved to Whitby, fell in love with it motoring from Toronto to renew the varnished teak staving.
Now living in BC, heard the boat was available and moved it from Ontario to Gibsons in 2004.
Puffin has inboard power, standing headroom, double berth forward, enclosed head and a galley. A lot of boat in 23’!
In the 1980’s Bill Garden reimagined his John Hart catboat as a pocket motorsailer, rigging it as a sloop.
Querencia
OWNER: Duane Elverum
ABOUT THE BOAT:
A 42” Yawl, the hull is 1-1/8” Burmese teak over yakel frames and locust deadwood. The 1/2 ton centre board, fastenings, floors and mast steps are bronze. Spars are cedar and sitka spruce and rigging and hardware is Merriman chrome plated bronze.
HISTORY:
Built in 1960, Querencia was originally christened as Nancy L at the Wing-on-Shing shipyard in Hong Kong, She was found at a dock in Sausalito in 2002, where its fittings, hardware and rigging had been stripped, the bilge and engine flooded and the interior had been set on fire.
RESTORATION:
The boat underwent an 18 month restoration by previous owner Tom Hudson working with shipwright Ed Lamberson on Bainbridge Island, and was christened Querencia and launched in Port Townsend, Washington in 2004.
Querencia has competed in 9 Swiftsure Regattas, 2004-2015 and multiple wooden boat festivals, including being awarded Best Overall Sailboat at the 2006 and 2007 Victoria Classic Boat Festival.
Ricochet
OWNER: Brent Ash
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Designed George Kettenburg Jr., and built by Kettenburg Boat Works in 1956. 46′-4″ PCC (Pacific Cruising Class) fractional-rigged sloop. Designed for cruising or offshore racing such as the Transpac to Hawaii.
Hull is Honduras mahogany on white oak frames, carvel construction, Douglas Fir keel & centerline and Keel-Hung Rudder with Tiller steering. Sitka Spruce mast & spars. Home port- Heritage Harbour, Vancouver Maritime Museum
POWER:
New 25HP Beta Diesel
GREAT STORY:
Original owner was Lamont M. Cochran of NYC, who named the boat Compadre II. Subsequent owners named her Sothis Tahiti, Tatalina, Esoteric, Minita B, and finally Ricochet. Brent purchased her in 2007 and won the coveted Spruce Cup at the 2011 Vancouver Wooden Boat Festival, only to see her undergo a shallow-water sinking a few months later.
TIDBIT:
Ricochet bounced back from the 2011 sinking, enjoying a thorough keel-up rebuild and restoration by her long-term owner, to relaunch in January 2023. She went on to win Best Restored Sailboat at the 44th Annual Victoria Classic Boat Festival in 2023.
M/V Seadrus
OWNER: Mike and Margie Demuth, Lund, B.C.
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Originally named and registered as Show Girl, Seadrus, O.N. 179476, was conceived by Ed Monk Sr. as a pleasure craft but also saw service as a water taxi and dive boat.
Her keel was laid in 1948 by A. Lloyd Paynter, Vancouver, B.C. She is double-planked, yellow over red cedar; carvel flush planking on sawn and bent White Oak frames.
In 2002, Ron Gordon from Victoria found her in Bella Coola and moved her to Yellow Point, B.C. to complete an extensive renovation that lasted 13 years and included new decks, a new tri-cabin sedan deck house arrangement, five new transverse bulkheads, new Gumwood stem, refastening, re-caulking, all new electrical wiring, plumbing, domestic and ground tackle systems – reconditioned down to the keelson and back up!
She was relaunched 2015, and after two weeks of taking shifts watching over her four bilge pumps, Ron and his crew determined she was tight and dry.
Mike and Margie, life-long sailors (aboard their beloved one-off 1977 S&S 35 cold-molded Cedar-epoxy IOR 3/4 tonner, Raven), purchased her from Ron in 2018, and completed her cruising refit, re-naming, and re-measurement by Transport Canada.
POWER:
Twin diesel; Isuzu 4BB1(DOB 1979), ea. 80 BHP. marinized with Klassen heat exchangers and dry exhausts; Borg Warner hydraulic reduction gears
GREAT STORY:
More than once, we have been hailed by those exclaiming, for instance, “I used to dive off that boat!”
TIDBIT:
“Cedrus” is Latin for Cedar; Seadrus!.
SILVER LURE
OWNER: David Marsh
DESIGN:
The Silver Lure is a 38’ 3” West Coast trawler designed by Robert Allen in 1959 and built in Port Coquitlam by Gordon Collins. It has 2 bunks in the hold, small head in the bow and a simple galley in the cabin.
HISTORY:
Recent repairs, completed by Ed Wahl included replacing the decking, wheelhouse and hatch cover. The original engine has also been replaced by a Gardner 5 LW.
In recent years, the fish hold was converted to family accommodation.
Temple Rock
OWNER: John Hanna
ABOUT THE BOAT:
43’ 6” Fisheries Patrol Vessel built in 1960. Designed by Robert Allan and built in New Westminster, B. C. by Star Shipyards (Mercers) Ltd.
Her hull is constructed of yellow cedar planking on white oak frames
For the last 7 years her home port has been Powell River BC Canada.
POWER:
Her original 1960 diesel engine, a 671 Jimmy ( GM ) is still in wonderful shape
GREAT STORY:
A Fisheries report titled 1984 Salmon History and record of Management Strategies listed F.P.V. “Temple Rock” as patrolling Area 8 – Bella Coola
TIDBIT:
Ex-Fisheries patrol vessel
Commissioned in 1960 by the Minister of Fisheries, Ottawa ON Canada. She served as a Fisheries patrol vessel until 1997.
THUNDER CHILD
OWNER: Barry & Hailly Collins
DESIGN:
Model: William Atkin Clione, launched 1971.
Builder: Andrew Okulich, built on Dead Man Island near Stanley Park and launched by the Canadian Navy.
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Boat Description: built by Andy and Melinda on Deadman Island, over the course of two years, with bent oak frames and 2” yellow cedar planking. She’s a 41 foot overall, gaff ketch with tan bark sails and has a 58hp Isuzu motor. And yes, the name does come from War of the Worlds.
HISTORY:
The Okulichs sold the boat to start a family. New owner, John Chislet owned the boat for 49 years. Hailly and Barry are the third couple to own this boat.
One owner never reefed the sails, as the sail configuration is diverse enough to simply douse one, two or three sails and still be able to make way!
VIKING MARINER
OWNER: Charles Schell
DESIGN:
Viking Mariner was built by Mario Tarabochia at Ladner BC with fir planks on fir frames and launched in 1955 as Mar-Brothers.
RENOVATIONS:
Viking Mariner was refitted and restored from 2001-2007 maintaining the lines of the original design by Marke Simmons & Carole Bird. From 2007 to 2011 John & Joyce Manning continued her meticulous upkeep. In 2011 Viking Mariner was purchased by her current owners Charles Schell and Sheila Warren who completed her conversion to the current state.
HISTORY:
It was originally owned and operated by the Martinolich family, part of a family fleet that included Mar Lady, Mar Sons and Klemtu. Throughout her working life, the Mar-Brothers worked as a drum seiner for Martinolich Bros. Fishing Ltd, and then the Canadian Fishing Company on the inside and outside coasts of Vancouver Island.