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.
ANANDA
OWNER:
Charlie Syburg
DESIGN:
Peter Hansen designed and built Union Trawler.
32 foot length 9 foot beam.
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Built in Everett washing ton and launched in 1932.
Tri cabin. Isuzu diesel engine.
She is a long time resident of Pender Harbour.
HISTORY:
Built and owned by Peter Hansen, she was Folly and Margaret H before she was Ananda.
She was subsequently owned by Bruce Bodin and Tim Wade.
Last season, the owner traveled 1200NM on Ananda and spent 70 nights aboard.
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 is currently undergoing a repowering refit, I am installing 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!
DOUBLE EAGLE
OWNER:
Randy Olafson
ABOUT THE BOAT:
M. M. Davis & Son, built on
Solomon I., Maryland.
Designed by J. Barnes Lusby.
Engine Info: Single GM 6-110 dsl
Constructed of Douglas fir planking and sawn white oak frames, Double Eagle’s exterior has held up well, with only a few planks replaced over the years.
Refinished mahogany detailing embellishes each stateroom. The boat offers an owner’s stateroom, a guest stateroom, and additional crew quarters in the forepeak. The pantry and storage lockers are easily accessible and the layout for the crew was very comfortable as designed.
RENOVATIONS:
We were fortunate the last owner was very meticulous and had the bottom refastened and did some major engine work in the ‘early 90’s. We have replaced the original propeller to improve performance and dealt with a complete upper deck replacement after a tiny leak in a deck plank.There’s plenty of room to entertain on Double Eagle – she hosts sit down dinners in the main saloon and aft lounge for 10!
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.
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
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.
LADY MARION
OWNER:
Doug Brown
DESIGN:
1924 Laker built by Eddie Aqualin at his home in Powell River!
ABOUT THE BOAT:
She has an Alaskan yellow cedar bottom and topsides, a western red cedar deck and Doug fir cabin. Her beam is 5′ 3″ and 22′ long. The engine is a Ford Model A marine conversion.
RENOVATIONS:
After coming to Colorado sometime in the late 1990’s her planks have shrunk and split, needing pretty much a total replanking. I have replaced the bottom and am working on the topsides and deck now.
HISTORY:
She was originally called Marion after Eddie’s wife. The Lady was added by Mr. Einer Jensen, a former owner from Powell River. She was inducted in the first call into the British Columbia vintage vessel Registry at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria on Jan. 8, 1991.
Powell River born; Lady Marion is celebrating her 100th birthday this year!
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.
MY FAIR LADY
OWNER:
Gord Wintrup
ABOUT THE BOAT:
My Fair Lady II was designed by Ed Monk Sr. and construction began in a West Vancouver shed in the backyard of Hugh and Rose Libby. This was only their second attempt at boatbuilding, having built a 19′ runabout prior to this project.
Construction began in 1959 and was finished in 1961, when she was registered. She is still powered by her original GM 6-53 diesel.
RENOVATIONS:
Since purchasing her in 2008, the current owner has refinished the mahogany exterior as well as most of the interior. Upgrades to the electrical system and electronics have been carried out as well.
HISTORY:
The Libby’s took her north to Ketchikan, Alaska in 1964, and the current owner retraced his course in 2010. She has been no stranger to the North & Central BC coast ever since.
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.
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.
RIPTIDE
OWNER:
Pete and Helen Leenhouts
DESIGN:
1926 – Standardized cruiser 47 – foot version. Schertzer Brothers Boat and Machine Company, launched 1927; Seattle WA USA.
ABOUT THE BOAT:
RIPTIDE is 47 feet 1-inch long with a beam of 11 feet 10-inches and a draft of five feet. She is planked in port orford cedar copper riveted to white oak frames over an apitong backbone with a western red cedar trunk cabin. She carries a wooden 12-foot Penn Yan boat as her dinghy. RIPTIDE displaces about 12 tons, relatively light for a boat her size. She is powered by a 210 hp Cummins diesel, and usually transits at 7.5 knots.
HISTORY:
Originally NOKARE she was sold in 1929 or 1930, and renamed NEREID. In early 1932 Russ Gibson would become her owner for the next 30 years. Mr Gibson named her RIPTIDE in 1935, the name she continues to carry today. In 1965 she was sold to Richard Billings, who took her to Alaska, and on his return, sold her to his brother, Roger, in 1968. Roger owned her until 2015 when she was sold to the current owner.Is RIPTIDE the Love Boat of the Pacific NW? She’s
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.
WALRONDA
OWNER:
Jim and Judith McDonald
DESIGN:
Walronda is a 60 foot carvel planked cruiser
ABOUT THE BOAT:
Walronda was built in Hong Kong and launched 1912.
RENOVATIONS:
2.4hp engine (1949c); Repowered with a 50hp Gardner engine (1951); Repowered with a 95hp engine (1957c); Repowered with 2-100hp diesel engines (2004c)
HISTORY:
In 1912 she was owned by Charles R. Gordon of Vancouver. In 1915-1969 she was owned by the Canadian Ministry of Public Works. In 1970 she was owned by Frederick Whitecroft of Vancouver. From 1971-1985 she was owned by Horel & Lakberg Logging Ltd., Vancouver BC Canada.
Walronda won the trophy for the best boat built pre 1942 at the Burrard Yacht Club show.